Near the village of Arda, in the neighbourhoods of Gudevitsa and Lagat (birthplace of folk singer Valya Balkanska) there are springs from one of the largest Bulgarian rivers, the Arda, from which the village takes its name.
The song is best known as performed by Bulgarian folk singer Valya Balkanska.
Balkanska is most famous in the West for "Izlel je Delyo hajdutin", which she recorded in 1968 accompanied by the bagpipe (gaida) players Lazar Kanevski and Stephan Zahmanov.