Bailovo

This article is about the village in Bulgaria. For the area of Baku, Azerbaijan, see Bayil.

42°39′N 23°49′E / 42.650°N 23.817°E / 42.650; 23.817

Center of Bailovo with library and museum buildings, and monument of Elin Pelin

Bailovo [1] (Cyrillic: Байлово) is a village in Western Bulgaria, 43 km east of Sofia, Bulgaria. It is the home village of the Bulgarian writer Elin Pelin (born as Dimitar Ivanov Stoyanov),[2] and ascetic Dobri Dobrev.

  1. ^ sometimes spelled incorrectly in English as Baylovo, as in Google Maps
  2. ^ Bailovo Village Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, bulgariainside.eu