Gotse Delchev (town)

This article is about the town. For the 19th-century revolutionary, see Gotse Delchev.

Gotse Delchev (town)
Gotse Delchev (town) Location of Gotse Delchev (town)
Coordinates: 41°34′N 23°44′E
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Blagoevgrad
Government
• Mayor	Vladimir Moskov
Elevation	508 m (1,667 ft)
Population (15.06.2010)
• Total	22,214
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal Code	2900
Area code(s)	751

Gotse Delchev (Bulgarian: Гоце Делчев), is a town in Blagoevgrad Province of Bulgaria with a population of 23,573.

In 1951 the town was renamed after the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi (Gotse) Nikolov Delchev. It had hitherto been called Nevrokop (in Bulgarian: Неврокоп, Nevrokop; in Greek: Νευροκοπι, Nevrokopi; and in Turkish: Nevrokop).

Nearby are the remains of a walled city established by the Romans in the 2nd century AD to celebrate victories over the Dacians. The town was called Nicopolis ad Nestum. There has been archaeological work on the site, which ceased due to lack of funds around 1986. The town was a kaza in Syar sanjak of Selanik vilayet before the Balkan Wars.

There is a hospital for endocrine surgery, named Simvol na nadezhdata (Символ на надеждата) (translated sign of hope), established with the help of the Union of Free Evangelic Churches in Germany.

Municipality

Gotse Delchev is the administrative centre of Gotse Delchev municipality (part of Blagoevgrad Province), which includes the following 13 places:

Banichan Borovo Breznitsa Bukovo Delchevo Dobrotino Dragostin

Gospodintsi Gotse Delchev Kornitsa Lazhnitsa Musomishta Sredna Koprivlen

Notable people

• Aleksandar Pramatarski - politician
• Georgi Bakalov - notable historian
• Ilko Pirgov - footballer
• Ilko Semerdzhiev - former Bulgarian minister of public health
• Mariana Karpatova - opera singer
• Nikolay Dobrev (1947–1999) - politician and member of the Communist party of Bulgaria
• Nikolina Chakardakova - singer
• Serkan Ceylan - Scientest
• Atanas Samandov - Bulgarian Army General, Head of the Joint Operations Command
• Bojidar Spiriev - statistician, author of the official IAAF scoring table
• Rosen Plevneliev - President of Bulgaria

Gallery

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  Street scene in Gotse Delchev

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  Historical Museum

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  Town Council of Gotse Delchev

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  Monument to Gotse Delchev

External links

• Gotse Delchev municipality — towns and villages
• Gotse Delchev municipality at Domino.bg
• Pictures from Gotse Delchev