Raslog
| Raslog (Разлог) | |||||
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 Bulgaria
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| Oblast : | Blagoevgrad | ||||
| Residents : | 11,590 (December 31, 2016) | ||||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 53 ' N , 23 ° 28' E | ||||
| Height : | 812 m | ||||
| Postal code : | 2760 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+359) 0747 | ||||
| License plate : | E. | ||||
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| Mayor : | Lyuben Tatarsky (member of the Council of Europe ) | ||||
| Ruling party : | UDF | ||||
| Website : | www.razlog.bg | ||||
Raslog [ rɐzˈɫɔk ] ( Bulgarian Разлог ) is a city in the southwestern Bulgarian Oblast Blagoevgrad . The municipality of the same name (Obschina) also includes the town of Raslog, Banja, Dobursko, Jeleschnitza, Batschewo, Godlewo, Gorno Draglischte and Dolno Draglischte, with a total of almost 23,000 inhabitants.
geography
Raslog is located in the valley of the Mesta River between the Pirin Mountains in the west and western Rhodope Mountains in the east and in the Raslog Valley between the Pirin Mountains in the south and the Rila Mountains in the north.
tourism
Not far from Bansko (bus connection), the fourth largest winter sports center in Bulgaria, Raslog has also developed into a winter holiday resort since the 1990s.
The closest snow-capped mountains are Kapatnik (2170 meters, Rila), Rawnik (2419, Rila), Goljam Metschi Wrach (2617, Rila), Daitow Warach (2597, Pirin), Pirin (2593) and Wichren (2914, Pirin).
The Pirin National Park is also not far away.
Infrastructure
Razlog is on the up drifting in the Razlog Valley road between Simitli in the west and Jundola (Oblast Pazardzhik ) in the east of Razlog itself the road branches off about Bansko along the Mesta to Gotse Delchev from the south.
The Rhodope Railway also connects Razlog via Velingrad with Septemwri (both in the Pazardzhik Oblast) in the east and via Bansko with Dobrinishte in the south. Together with Bansko, Raslog is trying to find an airfield for the tourist region, but in addition to Raslog, Goze Deltschew is also being discussed as a location.
history
The city was first mentioned under the rule of the Byzantine emperor Basil II , when he wrested the entire region from the Bulgarians in 1018.
Under the rule of the Ottoman Turks since 1393 , the region was called Mehomia . Numerous Bulgarians converted to Islam (see Pomaks ). Between 1893 and 1903 Razlog took part in several uprisings (including the Ilinden-Preobraschenie uprising ) organized by the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees (Bulgarian Български Македоно-Одрински кеволеционити кеволеционити кеволеционни кеволеционити кеволеционни кеволеционни кеволеционAR). Turkish rule. The uprisings were put down by the Turkish rulers with the help of the local Muslim population.
In the first of the Balkan Wars , Bulgarian troops conquered the city in 1912, and the entire Blagoevgrad region finally fell to Bulgaria in 1913.
population
On the eve of the annexation to Bulgaria, a third of the inhabitants in the Raslog district were Muslim farmers and shepherds (mainly Pomaks , some Turks and Muslim Roma ), but in the course of the 20th century they almost disappeared compared to the newly arrived Orthodox Bulgarians.
Famous daughters of the city
- Elena Lagadinova (1930–2017), resistance fighter, agricultural biologist and politician
- Zorka Parwanowa (* 1958), university professor and wife of the Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanow
- Irina Nikultschina (* 1974), Bulgarian winter sports enthusiast
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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- http://www.razlog.org/ (Bulgarian portal of the city of Razlog)
- Helmut Weiss: Bulgaria. DuMont Cologne 1993
- Pomaks in Encyclopaedia of Islam , Volume VIII, 320-324.