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Delčevo
Delčevo ( ) is a small town in the eastern mountainous part of North Macedonia. It is the municipal seat of Delčevo Municipality. The town is named after the revolutionary leader Goce Delčev. History Delčevo, according to a legend in Byzantine times, was called Vasilevo, as a Greek variant of the Slavonic Tsarevo. For the first time, Tsarevo Selo is mentioned as a settlement in a charter of Serbian Tsar Dushan from 1347 to 1350. With it he gave several places and fields from Pijanec to the Lesnovo Monastery. Ottoman period In Turkish times, Delčevo was also called Sultania, by analogy with the original name. Until the 17th century, the settlement laid on the right side of the river Bregalnica on the present toponym Selishte, more precisely under the hill Ostrec near the road leading to Bulgaria. From the first centuries of Turkish rule there is not much information about the position of Delčevo. In the middle of the 17th century, Sultan Mehmed IV lived in its v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delčevo Municipality
Delčevo Municipality ( ) is a municipality in Eastern Statistical Region of North Macedonia. The center of the municipality is the city of Delčevo. The geographical area is 423 km2 (163 mi2) and has about 13,585 inhabitants. There are 22 settlements in Delčevo, as follows: the town of Delčevo and the villages: Bigla, Vetren, Virce, Vratislavci, Gabrovo, Grad, Dramche, Zvegor, Iliovo, Kiselica, Kosovo Dabje, Nov Istevnik, Ochipala, Razlovci, Selnik, Stamer, Star Istevnik, Trabotivishte, Turija, Poleto and Chiflik. In the past, the municipality was also known as "Carevo Selo". Location 164 km (102 mi) east of Skopje, at the foot of Mount Golak, spread on both banks of the river Bregalnica lies the town of Delčevo. It is the largest settlement in the Pijanec area, which stretches over an area of 585 km2 (226 mi2), located between the Osogovo Mountains (north) and Maleshevo (south). The city lies at an altitude of . Despite b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |