 As of 2008, it has a population of about 680 and the mayor is Sasho Stoyanov of the National Movement for Stability and Progress.The village was settled by Balkan Mountains colonists from Vratsa Province after the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878.Prior to that, following the Crimean War and more specifically the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855), the Ottoman government settled Crimean Tatars and Circassians in the area.