Ihtiman (Bulgarian: Ихтиман) is a town in western Bulgaria, part of Sofia Province. It is located in the Ihtimanska Sredna Gora mountains and lies in a valley 48 km from Sofia and 95 km from Plovdiv, close to Trakiya motorway.
Formerly a Roman defensive station guarding the important roads to the Bosphorus, Ihtiman was then called Stipon. It continued to play this role under the Byzantine Empire and the Bulgarian Empire, which however shifted its main defensive centre in the region to the Gate of Trajan hill pass.
Following the Ottoman domination in the 14th century, the town's name was changed to Ihtiman, which is thought to be of Ottoman Turkish origin.
The traditional and dominant religion is Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
Ihtiman Hook on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Ihtiman.
Ikhtiman has a temperate continental climate with very cold and snowy winters and not too hot, relatively short summers. The average annual temperature is 8.9C.
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But she`s always lived in her own world
Stealing makeup from her mommy`s purse
And her mother said it only got worse
Well she ran with kids much older
She did all the things they told her to do
Doin` crazy things because they were in
(chorus)
Now she's heading for the big crash
She`s running with the white trash
The girl is moving too fast
She`s heading for the big crash
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And I`d tell her `bout the things that she doesn`t see
Tell her now before it gets too late
That she`s heading for the big crash
(chorus)
She thinks that she`s all grown up now
She thinks that she`s cool enough now
When will she realize that they`re cutting her down to size
The big crash
The girls moving too fast-heading for the big crash
Goin` places where she shouldn`t have been
Doin` crazy things because they were in