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Razlog Municipality
Razlog Municipality is located in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria. It has 22,124 inhabitants. The town of Razlog Razlog ( bg, Разлог ) is a town and ski resort in Razlog Municipality, Blagoevgrad Province in southwestern Bulgaria. It is situated in the Razlog Valley and was first mentioned during the reign of Byzantine emperor Basil II. The municipali ... is the administrative centre. Places include: Demographics Religion According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: References External links Municipalities in Blagoevgrad Province {{Blagoevgrad-geo-stub ...
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Municipalities Of Bulgaria
The 28 Provinces of Bulgaria, provinces of Bulgaria are divided into 265 municipalities (община, ''obshtina''). Municipalities typically comprise multiple towns, villages and settlements and are governed by a mayor who is elected by popular majority vote for a four-year term, and a municipal council which is elected using proportional representation for a four-year term. The creation of new municipalities requires that they must be created in a territory with a population of at least 6,000 and created around a designated settlement. They must also be named after the settlement that serves as the territory's administrative center, among other criteria. The council of a municipality is further permitted to create administrative subdivisions: mayoralties (''kmetstvo''), settlements (''naseleno myasto''), and wards or quarters (''rayon''). Mayoralties are overseen by elected mayors and typically comprises one or more villages or towns; they must contain a population of at leas ...
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Dolno Draglishte
Dolno Draglishte is a village in Razlog Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ....Guide Bulgaria
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Protestantism
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Orthodox Christianity
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Gorno Draglishte
Gorno Draglishte is a village in Razlog Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon .... This small mountain village at the foot of the Rila Mountain is surrounded by the Pirin and the Rhodopes. Gorno Draglishte is becoming a tourist attraction for both Bulgarians and foreigners. Nowadays it has a population of approximately 1000 people. According to the earliest written evidence, the village exists at least since 1576. References Villages in Blagoevgrad Province {{Blagoevgrad-geo-stub ...
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Godlevo
Godlevo is a village in Razlog Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria.Guide Bulgaria
Accessed May 5, 2010 Godlevo is 12 kilometers from , 6 kilometers from Pirin Golf Country Club, 10 kilometers from (ski center), and 140 kilometers from
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Eleshnitsa, Blagoevgrad Province
Eleshnitsa is a village in Razlog Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ....Guide Bulgaria
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Dobarsko
Dobarsko ( bg, Добърско ) is a village in southwestern Bulgaria, part of Razlog Municipality, Blagoevgrad Province. It is set at 1,070 m above sea level on the southern slopes of Rila with the westernmost Rhodope Mountains to the east and Pirin to the south near the valley of the Mesta River. Dobarsko is 80 km from Blagoevgrad and 17 km from the winter resort Bansko. the village has a population of 672 and about 200 houses, the mayor being Nikola Naydenov. History According to the legend, Dobarsko was founded by soldiers from Bulgarian tsar Samuil's blinded army after the Battle of Belasitsa in 1014, who arrived in the area en route to the Rila Monastery and discovered a holy spring that allegedly cured them. Dobarsko is first mentioned in Tsar Ivan Shishman's donor's charter from the Rila Monastery in 1378. During the Ottoman rule of Bulgaria Dobarsko established itself as the most important and richest village in the Razlog Valley. Many of the locals were mer ...
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Razlog Municipality Bulgaria Map
Razlog ( bg, Разлог ) is a town and ski resort in Razlog Municipality, Blagoevgrad Province in southwestern Bulgaria. It is situated in the Razlog Valley and was first mentioned during the reign of Byzantine emperor Basil II. The municipality The municipality of Razlog comprises the villages of Banya, Gorno Draglishte, Dolno Draglishte, Dobarsko, Bachevo, Godlevo and Eleshnitsa with a total population of 20,410 inhabitants. Each has its own charm. The fairy-tale village of Dobarsko, hidden in the outskirts of Rila, maintains the legends of the Dobarsko Singing School. One can see here the church "Saints Theodor Tiron and Theodor Stratilat" (1614) — a National Monument of Culture with high architectural and artistic culture. The murals depicting Jesus Christ in what observers claim to be a jet rocket astonishes foreigners as well as Bulgarians. The icons in the Tzar (King) Row of church "Sretenie Gospodne" (1860) were painted by Simeon D. Molerov, a representative of the Ba ...
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Banya, Blagoevgrad Province
Banya is a village in Razlog Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria,Razlog
in Guide Bulgaria, Accessed February 23, 2015 laying 4 km to the east of the town of and at about the same distance to the north of the ski resort of .Banya
in Guide Bulgaria, Accessed February 23, 2015
Banya was first settled by the

Bachevo
Village of Bachevo is located in South-Western planning region of Bulgaria. It is part of Razlog Municipality, Blagoevgrad Province.Guide Bulgaria
Accessed December 25, 2015 Situated at South-western Bulgaria in the (6 km. north-western from town, 52 km. south-eastern from city, and 156 km. south from