Dimovo ( bg, Димово ) is a town in northwestern

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Vidin Province Vidin Province () is the northwesternmost province of Bulgaria. It borders Serbia to the west and Romania to the northeast. Its administrative centre is the city of Vidin on the Danube river. The area is divided into 11 municipalities. As of D ...

. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Dimovo Municipality, which lies in the eastern part of Vidin Province, from

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Bregovo Bregovo ( bg, Брегово ; ro, Bregovo) is a town in the very northwest of Bulgaria, situated on the east bank of the Timok River close to its mouth. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Bregovo Municipality, Vidin Province. T ...

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n border. As of December 2009, Dimovo had a population of 1,211 inhabitants.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
The town is located in the western Danubian Plain. Until the

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in 1878, it was known as ''Barzitsa'' (Бързица) in Bulgarian, but it had the Ottoman name ''Osmaniye''. In 1880, it was renamed to ''Aleksandrovo'' after the Bulgarian

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Alexander I of Battenberg. It was briefly named ''Vlaykovo'' in honour of Todor Vlaykov in 1936, but the name was changed back to honour Alexander as ''Knyaz Aleksandrovo'' in the same year. Finally, the modern name of ''Dimovo'' was established in 1951, after local partisan Zhivko Puev's nickname, ''Dimo''.

Municipality

Dimovo Primary School and Orthodox Church

Dimovo municipality has an area of and includes the following 23 places:

References

External links

Dimovo municipality page at the Vidin Province website
Towns in Bulgaria Populated places in Vidin Province {{Vidin-geo-stub