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Gotse Delchev
Гоце Делчев | |
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 Monument of Gotse Delchev | |
 Seal | |
  Gotse Delchev Location of Gotse Delchev (town) | |
| Coordinates: 41°34′N 23°44′E / 41.567°N 23.733°E | |
| Country |  Bulgaria |
| Province (Oblast) | Blagoevgrad |
| Municipality | Gotse Delchev Municipality |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Vladimir Moskov (BSP) |
| Elevation | 540 m (1,770 ft) |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
• City | 18,237 |
| • Urban | 29,585 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal Code | 2900 |
| Area code | 751 |
Gotse Delchev (Bulgarian: Гоце Делчев [ˈɡɔt͡sɛ ˈdɛɫt͡ʃɛf]), is a town in Gotse Delchev Municipality in Blagoevgrad Province of Bulgaria.
In 1951, the town was renamed after the revolutionary leader Gotse Delchev.[2] It had hitherto been called Nevrokop[3] (in Bulgarian: Неврокоп, Nevrokop; in Greek: Άνω Νευροκόπι, romanized: Ano Nevrokopi, lit. 'Upper Nevrokopi'; and in Turkish: Nevrokop).
Nearby are the remains of a walled city established by the Romans in the 2nd century AD. The town was a kaza in the Siroz sanjak of the Salonica vilayet before the Balkan Wars.
- ^ "Население по области, общини, местоживеене и пол | Национален статистически институт". nsi.bg.
- ^ Danforth, Loring M. (1997). The Macedonian conflict: ethnic nationalism in a transnational world. Princeton University Press. p. 64. ISBN 0691043566. The political and military leaders of the Slavs of Macedonia at the turn of the century seem not to have heard Misirkov's call for a separate Macedonian national identity; they continued to identify themselves in a national sense as Bulgarian rather than Macedonians.[...]In spite of these political differences, both groups, including those who advocated an independent Macedonian state and opposed the idea of a greater Bulgaria, never seem to have doubted "the predominantly Bulgarian character of the population of Macedonia"[...]Even Gotse Delchev, the famous Macedonian revolutionary leader, whose nom de guerre was Ahil (Achilles), refers to "the Slavs of Macedonia as 'Bulgarians' in an offhanded manner without seeming to indicate that such a designation was a point of contention" (Perry 1988:23). In his correspondence Gotse Delchev often states clearly and simply, "We are Bulgarians" (Mac Dermott 1978:273).
- ^ Michev, Nikolay; Koledarov, Petar, "Dictionary of towns and villages in Bulgaria (1878 - 1987), Sofia, 1989