Midžor

Where is Midžor?

Midžor is part of the Stara Planina (Balkan Mountains).

You will find it in: Serbia.

Summit: 43.394° N, 22.682° E

The story behind it

Midžor is not a sharp peak but a huge rounded back of grass and stone on the ridge that separates Serbia from Bulgaria, where the neighbours use a slightly different name for the same summit, and the measurements differ by a few metres depending on who is counting. Wind is the ruler here: it flattens the grass, drives fog over the crest in seconds and piles snow in the hollows until late spring. Below the open top grow beech woods and juniper bushes, streams start in small springs, and in summer cattle and sheep graze on the broad pastures where blueberries ripen among the stones. Wild flowers colour the slopes in June, buzzards circle over the ridge and wolves live in the quieter forests. A track from the village of Topli Do makes the ascent long but never technical.

Find it on the globe

Midžor is there as a small peak with its own shape — a horn, a ridge, a volcano — standing on the surface. From far away the planet is only a blue ball; detail arrives as you zoom in, and this one appears once you are close enough. Open it on the globe.

It sits at its real coordinates, not near them — the same numbers listed in the facts above. Switch off the layer for this kind of place and it disappears again; the buttons for that are down the right-hand edge.