Manastirishte (Peter's Monastery). Later, because of funeral rites performed by priests in the cemetery, it was renamed Popovitsa. Mеn of the village also participated in the second uprising against Byzantium led by the boyar Georgi Voyteh in 1072 and in the liberation uprising against Byzantine domination led by the brothers Peter and Asen in 1185, when the Second Bulgarian Kingdom was founded. At the beginning of Ottoman rule (around 1397) because of disobedience and rebellion, the villagers were killed to the last man, the monastery was fully destroyed, and the village was burned. Old Turkish registers write that in 1446 Karnul village was a timar (domain) of Mehmed, the son of Kyoseto Hadzha, it had 6 households and gave annual income of 410 akche to the feudal. It can be supposed that these 6 households constituted the young men who managed to escape in the Breznik villages Rebro, Noevtsi, Goz, and Babitsa, and later (about 1415) returned to the village which began its second life. The last Turkish feudal who owned land in the village was Karnul bey, who sold his land and left in mid-19th century. During the Battle of Slivnitsa, and more specifically, at the Battle of Gurgulyat on 7 November 1885, the Serbian Morava Division deployed in a semicircle from Radulovtsi to Delyan (Karnul), with the latter especially taken by the right (cavalry) flank. On August 14, 1934, Karnul was renamed to Delyan. Then there were about 50 houses. During socialism most people migrated to Sofia and Pernik. During the 1970s, with volunteer help, the bare hill above the village was planted with pine forest. In 1983, the wide asphalt road Sofia-Breznik which passes the village was completed, and later a bus service was opened. Over 40 new concrete houses were built after that. Most of their inhabitants live in Sofia and Pernik and come to the village in holidays. References Villages in Sofia Province