Mokresh, Montana Province

Mokresh (Bulgarian: Мокреш) is a village in northwestern Bulgaria, located in the Valchedram Municipality of the Montana Province.

Once upon a time, people used to call Mokresh a European village—because many of the natives studied in the cities and abroad, and there were many fashionably clothed men and women.

Mokresh has its place in the National Revival history mainly through the activity of Pop Puncho Kuzdin, a remarkable person for his time.

There are stories about Saint John of Rila, parables about Adam and Eve, the Birth of Christ, a short novel about the Russian tsar Peter the Great, all narrated simply and with love for Bulgaria.

In the day, Puncho the priest taught the Mokresh children in the monastery school founded by him, and at night he was writing his homilies.