Bosilegrad
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Босилеград Bosilegrad |
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| Basic data | |||||
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| State : | Serbia | ||||
| Okrug : | Pčinja | ||||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 30 ' N , 22 ° 28' E | ||||
| Area : | 571 km² | ||||
| Residents : | 9,931 (2002) | ||||
| Population density : | 17 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+381) +381 17 | ||||
| Postal code : | 17540 | ||||
| License plate : | VR | ||||
| Structure and administration (status: 2007) | |||||
| Community type: | city | ||||
| Mayor : | Vladimir Zaharijev (DSS) | ||||
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Bosilegrad ( Serbian - Cyrillic Босилеград ) is a small Serbian town and municipality of the same name. It is located in the extreme south-east of Serbia on the border with Bulgaria and, along with Dimitrovgrad, is a center of the Bulgarian minority in Serbia .
location
Bosilegrad is located in south-east Serbia on the border with Bulgaria. The Serbian-Bulgarian border crossing Oltomanzi is located around 13 km southeast and the border crossing Strsimirowzi about 55 km northeast of the city. The closest major city is the Bulgarian Kyustendil .
population
At the 2002 census, Bosilegrad had 2,702 people with the following ethnic structure:
| Ethnic groups | number | percent |
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| Bulgarians | 2 072 | 76.38% |
| Serbs | 247 | 9.14% |
| Yugoslavs | 24 | 0.88% |
| Macedonians | 9 | 0.33% |
| Slovenes | 3 | 0.11% |
| Croatians | 2 | 0.07% |
| Slovaks | 1 | 0.03% |
| Russians | 1 | 0.03% |
| Wallachians | 1 | 0.03% |
| Further | 29 | 1.07% |
| All in all | 2 702 | 100% |
Population development
| year | number |
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| 1948 | 1 233 |
| 1953 | 1 320 |
| 1961 | 1 355 |
| 1971 | 1 662 |
| 1981 | 2 029 |
| 1991 | 2 440 |
| 2002 | 2 702 |
history
After the First World War , Bosilegrad, along with other areas in western Bulgaria, was ceded by Bulgaria to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine , 1919). Bosilegrad is surrounded by mountains that reach heights over 1,800 m.
politics
Mayor of Bosilegrad is Vladimir Zaharijev (since 2009), a politician from the Democratska stranka Srbije party .
Town twinning
Personalities
Sons of the city
- Jordan Sakhariev , Bulgarian ethnographer
- Dimitar Mechandjijski (1916–1999), Bulgarian painter
- Wltko Gligorow , Bulgarian politician
- Lyuben Bojadschiew (1914–2003), Bulgarian painter
- Wassil Ivanov († 1967), Bulgarian freedom fighter
Individual evidence
- ↑ (in Serbian) Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i Stanova 2002. Knjiga 1: Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost po naseljima. Statistical Office of Serbia. 2003. ISBN 86-84443-00-09 . Available online at stat.gov.rs ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( ZIP ; 3.3 MB)
