Zelenikovo, Plovdiv Province

Zelenikovo is a village in Southern Bulgaria, located in Brezovo Municipality, Plovdiv Province.

[1] Zelenikovo village is located in the southern hills of the most elevated part of the Sarnena Sredna Gora geographical area in Bulgaria.

The oil rose processed in the area is of high quality and as of the last 50 years, there has been an increase in plantation numbers near the village.

Conditions are being created to demonstrate to tourists how the distillation of rose oil happens in a traditional and interesting manner.

[3] According to documents left by the local teacher Todor Georgiev Gogovpisani around 1944, it is assumed that the Zelenikovo Village was created more than 700 years ago by Tsar Ivan Shishman, while relocating a large portion of the population to establish a better border control beyond the Balkan Mountains to strengthen the military positions of Bulgarian defenders.