West along the village flows to the southeast Martinka River (Golyama River), a left tributary of the Maritsa River. On the right (west) bank of the river there is a microdam (fishpond).
The standard English transcription for the Bulgarian village name Държава is Darzhava.
This follows the official Bulgarian streamlined system for the transliteration of the Cyrillic alphabet into Latin characters, which is used for passports, road signs, and official maps.
The "ъ" Factor: While older systems sometimes used u (Durzhava) or â (Dârzhava), the official modern standard strictly uses a.
The "ж" Factor: The letter ж is always transcribed as zh to represent the voiced post-alveolar fricative sound.
Derjava: This often comes from French-style transcription (j sounds like zh) or older systems that tried to map the Bulgarian ъ to an e. However, in modern English, "Derjava" would likely be mispronounced by a native speaker.
Darjava: This follows a Slavic linguistic style (common in Serbian or Croatian Latin scripts), where j represents a "y" sound. In English, this would lead people to say "Dar-ya-va," which is incorrect for the Bulgarian ж.