Khadzhidimovo

Аджидимово Chadschidimowo
Khadzhidimovo
Coordinates	41 ° 31 '  N , 23 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 31 '  N , 23 ° 51'  E
Basic data
Country	Bulgaria
Oblast	Blagoevgrad
height	485 m
Residents	4560

Chadschidimowo ( Bulgarian Хаджидимово ) is a small town in the center of the municipality of Hadschidimowo in Blagoevgrad Oblast , in southwestern Bulgaria .

geography

The city is located in the Nestos Valley , surrounded by the Rila and Pirin mountain ranges , the Slavyanka , Shilka and Falakro mountains and the western Rhodope Mountains .

Although the city is located in a Mediterranean climate region, winter temperatures often drop below 0 ° and summers are hot with temperatures of up to 45 ° Celsius.

history

Chadschidimowo was created through the merger of the villages of Gorna Singartia and Dolna Singartia. Throughout the 19th century, researchers recorded a predominantly ethnic Bulgarian population in the two villages with a Turkish minority.

After the merger, the settlement was called Zhostovo for a while, after the Bulgarian general Konstantin Zhostov , who was born in nearby Gaytaninovo . Today, since 1951, it bears the name of the left-wing revolutionary of the Internal Macedonian Organization of the Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), Dimo Chadshidimow . Hadschidimowo was declared a city in 1996.

traffic

The community is close to the II-19 national road , which runs from Simitli to the Greek border near Ilinden .

sons and daughters of the town

• Said Ibraimow , football player (* 1970)

supporting documents

1. ↑ Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г., Македонски научен институт, София, 1995, стр. 126-127.