Ihtiman
Ihtiman (Bulgarian: Ихтиман [ixtiˈman]) is a town in western Bulgaria, part of Sofia Province.It is located in the Ihtiman Valley of the Ihtimanska Sredna Gora mountain range and lies in a valley 48 km from Sofia and 95 km from Plovdiv, close to the Trakiya motorway.Formerly a Roman defensive station guarding the important roads to the Bosphorus, Ihtiman was then called Stipon.In 986 the Bulgarian Emperor Samuel dealt a crushing defeat on the Byzantines in the battle of the Gates of Trajan.[1] Ihtiman has a temperate continental climate with very cold and snowy winters and not too hot, relatively short summers.