Драговски камък, Mountain peak in Greben Mountains, Bulgaria
Dragovski Kamak is a 1118 m summit in the Greben Mountains, standing between the Tran villages of Vrabcha and Filipovtsi. Seen from a distance it looks like a pyramid, which earned it the local name "Tran's Matterhorn". Its slopes held an ancient fortress reachable only from the northwest, built of dry-laid rough stone above the Klisura river valley.
An ancient fortress stood on Dragovski Kamak, reachable only from the northwest, with walls of dry-laid rough stone. It controlled the Klisura River valley. In the 11th century it joined Samuel's Bulgaria; the voivode Dragota defended it, and in 1004 and 1016 Basil II's sieges of Pernik and its fortresses failed. It surrendered with Pernik in 1018 after Ohrid fell.
Locals call the peak Dragyovski Kamik, and from a distance its pyramid form earned it the nickname "Tran's Matterhorn". East of the summit, lower down, lies Bezhanska Cave; a legend says a tunnel once linked it to the fortress on the peak.
The easier and recommended approach starts from Vrabcha, not from Filipovtsi; the peak lies between the two Tran villages. The climb leads to 1118 m, and the fortress remains were reachable only from the northwest. The Bezhanska cave lies below the summit to the east.
East of the summit, low on the slope, lies Bezhanska Cave; a local tradition holds that a tunnel once linked it to the fortress on the peak. The walls of that fortress were built of rough stone without mortar, and it could be reached only from the northwest.
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