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Gotse Delchev
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city in Gotse Delchev municipality, Blagoevgrad oblast, Bulgaria
Key facts
- Country
- Bulgaria
- Province oblast
- Blagoevgrad
- Municipality
- Gotse Delchev Municipality
- Mayor
- Vladimir Moskov ( BSP )
- Elevation
- 540 m (1,770 ft)
- City
- 18,237
- Urban
- 29,585
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( EET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+3 ( EEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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. It had hitherto been called Nevrokop (in Bulgarian: Неврокоп, Nevrokop; in Greek: Άνω Νευροκόπι, romanized: Ano Nevrokopi, lit. 'Upper Nevrokopi'; and in Turkish: Nevrokop).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gotse Delchev” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.