Trastenik (Bulgarian: Тръстеник pronounced [trɐstɛˈnik], also transliterated Trǎstenik) is a town in central northern Bulgaria, part of Dolna Mitropoliya municipality, Pleven Province.

Although several ancient mounds and traces of Roman settlement dating to the 1st-2nd century have been discovered by archaeologists, the earliest written data regarding modern Trastenik dates to the 15th century.

[2] During the Ottoman rule, the town was a small village known as Marashka Trastenik, famous for paying its taxes in horses.

There is an annual festival held in the town on January 20 to celebrate a legend of the day that the horse population, which had been decimated by disease, was replenished by an old mare past her breeding prime, allowing the village to pay its tax.

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