Breschani

Breschani (Брежани)
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Basic data
State :	Bulgaria
Oblast :	Blagoevgrad
Residents :	891  (March 15, 2009)
Area :	1 km²
Population density	891 inhabitants / km²
Coordinates :	41 ° 52 '  N , 23 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 51 '49 "  N , 23 ° 11' 13"  E
Height :	560 m
Postal code :	2750
Telephone code :	(+359) 748
License plate :	E.

Breschani ( Bulgarian Брежани , formerly Sarbinowo (Сърбиново)) is a village with 891 inhabitants (as of March 15, 2009) in southwestern Bulgaria . It is located in the historical region of Macedonia in what is now the Bulgarian province of Blagoevgrad at about 560 meters above sea level. Breschani is located at the foot of the Pirin Mountains about 8 kilometers south of the administrative seat of the municipality of Simitli and about 25 kilometers south of the next largest city, Blagoevgrad . The mountains are located west of the village, which serves as the starting point for various hiking routes.

Breschani carried the name Sarbinowo (Сърбиново) until the coup in Bulgaria by the Sveno organization under the leadership of Kimon Georgiev and the radical administrative reform he carried out in 1934.

Around 1900 the village had a population of 2,000 according to the Bulgarian ethnographer Wasil Kantschow , and according to the information in his work Macedonia. Ethnography and Statistics (1900) the majority of them, around 1,900 or 95%, were Bulgarians.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of Breschani (Bulgarian)
2. ↑ Alternative name and geography
3. ↑ Nikolaj Mitschew, Petar Koledarow: Речник на селищата и селищните имена в България 1878–1987. София, 1989.
4. ↑ Anna Choleva-Dimitrova: Селищни имена от Югозападна България: Изследване , Verlag Pensoft Publishers, 2002, ISBN 9546421685 , p. 102 online version of the book
5. ↑ Wasil Kanschow: Македония. Етнография и статистика. София, 1900, стр.191.