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Delčevo

February 20, 2023

Delčevo (Macedonian: Делчево [ˈdɛɫtʃɛvɔ] (listen)) is a small town in the eastern mountainous part of North Macedonia. It is the municipal seat of the eponymous municipality. A festival in celebration of revolutionary leader Goce Delčev) is held every year on August 2nd.

Delčevo
Делчево (Macedonian)
Town centre of Delčevo
Flag
Seal
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°58′N 22°46′E / 41.967°N 22.767°E / 41.967; 22.767Coordinates: 41°58′N 22°46′E / 41.967°N 22.767°E / 41.967; 22.767
Country North Macedonia
Region Eastern
Municipality Delčevo
Government
 • MayorGoran Trajkovski (SDSM)
Highest elevation
640 m (2.100 ft)
Lowest elevation
590 m (1.940 ft)
Population
 (2002)
 • Total11.500
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
2320
Area code+389 033
Car platesŠT; KO; DE
ClimateCfb
Websitewww.delcevo.gov.mk/

History

Delchevo, according to a legend in Byzantine times, was called Vasilevo, as a Greek variant of the Slavonic Tsarevo. For the first time, as a settlement Tsarevo Selo is mentioned 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 vicinity. At the time of his visit to Pijanec, mass Islamization was carried out on the population. Due to the oppression and pressure, many Bulgarian settlements were deserted, including the then Tsarevo Selo. It is assumed that at the time of that sultan the settlement was moved to its present place on the left side of the river Bregalnica. The city mosque built in the 17th century is also cited as evidence.

However, it is thought-provoking that the Turkish travel writer Evliya Çelebi spent here only a few years later in 1670 and wrote in his Travelogue:

"From Vinica we climbed the Kocani mountain ore, moving through the gorge and after four hours we reached Tsarevo Selo. This is a Muslim village at the foot of a mountain and is decorated with about 100 houses and a magnificent mosque mined by a minaret."

We should also mention the folk tradition that says that the settlement under the Ostrec hill was deserted when the plague reigned and the surviving population settled on the place where Delchevo is today.

In 1856, the construction of a church was completed. The area around the church was at this time mainly inhabited by Bulgarians fleeing Turkish oppression from the surrounding villages. There was a larger emigration of Bulgarians from the area in 1878 after the Russo-Turkish war. After the end of the war the Christian population, fearing for their safety, fled the region seeking refuge on the territory of the newly created Bulgaria. About 150 households from the villages and the city moved to the Kyustendil region. A small number of those refugees later returned. Turkish refugees from Bulgaria and even Bosnia and Herzegovina settled in the place of the emigrated Bulgarians. The invading Turkish population, called "Madzirci" settled in Madzir maalo (Madzir Neighbourhood), today's III district of the city.

On the left side by the river Bregalnica, on the narrow flat space where the bazzar and inns were, the construction of the trade and craft shops along the two narrow streets started. With that, the bazaar was finally formed and Delčevo grew into a city settlement.

Balkan and World Wars

During the Balkan Wars, a large number of Turks left the city, so that in 1914 the population was 1.701. After these wars, Macedonian settlers came from the surrounding villages, mostly from the passive villages of Bigla, Selnik and Dramče, which bought Turkish properties.

In 1931 the population increased to 3.746 inhabitants. After this year, the emigration of the Turkish population to Turkey continued voluntarily, especially in 1953. In 1935, the construction of the first houses on the right side of the river Bregalnica began.

After the liberation, on April 23, 1950, the Presidium of the National Assembly of the People's Republic of Macedonia decided that Tsarevo Selo should be renamed Delčevo, in honor of Goce Delčev.

In the sixties the town expanded on the right side of the river Bregalnica, and in the seventies on the hill Milkovo Brdo (Milkov's hill). With the increase of the employees in the working organizations in Delčevo, the number of the population in it also grew. Today Delčevo is a modern urban settlement with wide asphalt streets and boulevards, sewerage network and parks and greenery.

Location

164km (102mi) 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 585km² (226mi²), located between the Osogovo Mountains (north) and Maleševo (south). The city lies at an altitude of 590m (1.940ft) to 640m (2.100ft). Despite being located in the easternmost part of the country, Delčevo has a relatively good geographical position and traffic connection. It is a crossroads for eastern Macedonia. Through Pehčevo (27km/17mi) and Berovo (34km/21mi) it is connected with Strumica to the south, and through Makedonska Kamenica (24km/15mi) and Kočani (51km/32mi) it is connected with Štip to the northwest. To the west is Vinica (39km/24mi), and to the east is the border crossing with Bulgaria, called "Arnautski Grob" (Arnaut's grave) (11km/7mi), through which you can reach the capital of Pirin Macedonia - Gorna Dzumaja (Blagoevgrad) (34km/21mi)

Climate

The climate in Delčevo is continental Eastern European. The average annual temperature in Delchevo is 11°C (52°F), with an absolute minimum of -26°C (-15°F) and an absolute maximum of 39°C (102°F), while in higher areas the average annual temperature drops to 3.5°C (38°F). The warmest month is August, and the coldest is January. Spring is always colder than autumn.

The cloudiness isn't strong, so the year is dominated by sunny and clear days. The average annual rainfall in Delchevo is 548 mm (22in), and in the mountains over 1.600 meters (5,250ft) above sea level. and up to 1.000 mm (39in). Precipitation, although relatively low, their distribution in the vegetation period (April–September) is favorable and is over 50% of the total annual precipitation.

The vegetation period with a temperature higher than 10°C (50°F) lasts 191 days during the year. This favorable climate allows the growth of various plants, and is also a very suitable natural condition for the development of tourism in this area.

Demographics

According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics",1900), there were 1.520 inhabitants in Tsarevo Selo (Delčevo), of which 575 Bulgarians were Muslims, 520 Bulgarians were Bulgarian Exarchists and 425 Turks.[1]

In the first organized census of SFR Yugoslavia from 1948, there were 20.159 inhabitants in the Tsarevo Selo area, of which 3,173 in Tsarevo Selo (Delčevo) and 16.986 in the villages (Pijanec, Osogovo). From an ethnic point of view, the population consisted of 15.669 (77.7%) Macedonians, 4,036 (20%) Turks, but some of them were Macedonian Muslims, 300 (1.48%) Roma and 154 others.

According to the 2002 census, the city had a population of 11.500 and belonged to the group of medium-sized towns.

The main ethnic group is Macedonian. Romani people are the biggest minority. Today more than 70% of Delčevo's Slavic population holds Bulgarian citizenship.[2]

Ethnicities
Year Macedonians Roma Turks Serbs Albanians Aromanians Other Total
1948 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 3.173
1953 1.596 178 1.127 90 2 0 40 3.033
1961 2.645 N/A 318 56 0 N/A 128 3.147
1971 4.464 172 353 51 11 N/A 53 5.104
1981 7.349 450 170 32 7 0 57 8.065
1991 9.832 551 161 29 8 0 83 10.664
1994 9.845 521 121 29 9 0 29 10.554
2002 10.761 564 97 25 7 3 43 11.500
2021 11,949 475 112 9 20 5 108 13,585

The official language of the municipality is Macedonian and everyone can speak it. Delchevo today has many beautiful languages and its population is very tolerant to new languages and cultures.

Languages
Language Number Percentage
Macedonian 10.851 94,36
Romani 402 3,50
Turkish 188 1,63
Serbian 26 0,23
Albanian 7 0,06
Bosniak 2 0,02
Aromanian 1 0,01
Other 25 0,22

Delčevo is a secular town. The main religion is Orthodox Christianity. Islam is mostly practiced by the Roma and Turkish minority. The town has many churches and a mosque for its citizens.

Religions
Religion Number Percentage
Orthodox Christian 10.594 92,12
Islam 660 5,74
Protestantism 4 0.03
Catholicism 3 0,03
Other/Atheism 239 2,08

Sport and culture

The football club FK Bregalnica Delčevo play their home games at the City Stadion "Goce Delčev", which has a capacity of 5,000 people. A festival in celebration of the Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary leader Goce Delčev is held every year on August 2. The ruins of the (Byzantine) village of Vasilevo lie about 3km (1,9mi) southeast of the town, and the Monastery of Sveta Bogoridica (St. Mother of Christ), noted for its bright frescoes, is situated about 3km (1,9mi) to the southwest.

Cultural and social facilities

Churches

  • Church "Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God" - a church in the higher part of the city;
  • Church "St. Cyril and Methodius” - a new church in the lower part of the city;
  • Church "St. Kliment Ohridski ” - a new church on the location where in 1961, by a decision of the then government, a church was demolished;
  • Church "St. Naum Ohridski” - baptistery church. Consecrated on August 4, 2013.
  • Church "St. Bogorodica” - grave church;
  • Church "St. Bogorodica Balaklija” - the main monastery church of the Delčevo Monastery;
  • Church "Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God" - a monastery church in the Delčevo Monastery;

Schools

  • Secondary school "Metodija Mitevski Brico" - Delčevo
  • Primary school "Vancho Prke" - Delčevo
  • Primary school "St. Kliment Ohridski" - Delčevo

Twin towns — sister cities

Delčevo is twinned with:

References

  1. ^ Кѫнчовъ, Василъ. Македония. Етнография и статистика. София, Българското книжовно дружество, 1900 с. 228.
  2. ^ Елка Василева, 70% от македонския град Делчево с БГ гражданство= "Вечер": Все повече македонци искат български паспорти! 4 юни 2018, Днес.бг.

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Delčevo.
  • Official site
  • Delcevo.com

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ˈdɛɫtʃɛvɔ listen is a small town in the eastern mountainous part of North Macedonia It is the municipal seat of the eponymous municipality A festival in celebration of revolutionary leader Goce Delcev is held every year on August 2nd Delcevo Delchevo Macedonian Town centre of DelcevoFlagSealLocation within North MacedoniaCoordinates 41 58 N 22 46 E 41 967 N 22 767 E 41 967 22 767 Coordinates 41 58 N 22 46 E 41 967 N 22 767 E 41 967 22 767Country North MacedoniaRegionEasternMunicipalityDelcevoGovernment MayorGoran Trajkovski SDSM Highest elevation640 m 2 100 ft Lowest elevation590 m 1 940 ft Population 2002 Total11 500Time zoneUTC 1 CET Summer DST UTC 2 CEST Postal code2320Area code 389 033Car platesST KO DEClimateCfbWebsitewww delcevo gov mk Contents 1 History 1 1 Ottoman period 1 2 Balkan and World Wars 2 Location 3 Climate 4 Demographics 5 Sport and culture 6 Cultural and social facilities 6 1 Churches 6 2 Schools 7 Twin towns sister cities 8 References 9 External linksHistory EditDelchevo according to a legend in Byzantine times was called Vasilevo as a Greek variant of the Slavonic Tsarevo For the first time as a settlement Tsarevo Selo is mentioned 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 Edit In Turkish times Delcevo 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 Delcevo In the middle of the 17th century Sultan Mehmed IV lived in its vicinity At the time of his visit to Pijanec mass Islamization was carried out on the population Due to the oppression and pressure many Bulgarian settlements were deserted including the then Tsarevo Selo It is assumed that at the time of that sultan the settlement was moved to its present place on the left side of the river Bregalnica The city mosque built in the 17th century is also cited as evidence However it is thought provoking that the Turkish travel writer Evliya Celebi spent here only a few years later in 1670 and wrote in his Travelogue From Vinica we climbed the Kocani mountain ore moving through the gorge and after four hours we reached Tsarevo Selo This is a Muslim village at the foot of a mountain and is decorated with about 100 houses and a magnificent mosque mined by a minaret We should also mention the folk tradition that says that the settlement under the Ostrec hill was deserted when the plague reigned and the surviving population settled on the place where Delchevo is today In 1856 the construction of a church was completed The area around the church was at this time mainly inhabited by Bulgarians fleeing Turkish oppression from the surrounding villages There was a larger emigration of Bulgarians from the area in 1878 after the Russo Turkish war After the end of the war the Christian population fearing for their safety fled the region seeking refuge on the territory of the newly created Bulgaria About 150 households from the villages and the city moved to the Kyustendil region A small number of those refugees later returned Turkish refugees from Bulgaria and even Bosnia and Herzegovina settled in the place of the emigrated Bulgarians The invading Turkish population called Madzirci settled in Madzir maalo Madzir Neighbourhood today s III district of the city On the left side by the river Bregalnica on the narrow flat space where the bazzar and inns were the construction of the trade and craft shops along the two narrow streets started With that the bazaar was finally formed and Delcevo grew into a city settlement Balkan and World Wars Edit During the Balkan Wars a large number of Turks left the city so that in 1914 the population was 1 701 After these wars Macedonian settlers came from the surrounding villages mostly from the passive villages of Bigla Selnik and Dramce which bought Turkish properties In 1931 the population increased to 3 746 inhabitants After this year the emigration of the Turkish population to Turkey continued voluntarily especially in 1953 In 1935 the construction of the first houses on the right side of the river Bregalnica began After the liberation on April 23 1950 the Presidium of the National Assembly of the People s Republic of Macedonia decided that Tsarevo Selo should be renamed Delcevo in honor of Goce Delcev In the sixties the town expanded on the right side of the river Bregalnica and in the seventies on the hill Milkovo Brdo Milkov s hill With the increase of the employees in the working organizations in Delcevo the number of the population in it also grew Today Delcevo is a modern urban settlement with wide asphalt streets and boulevards sewerage network and parks and greenery Location Edit164km 102mi east of Skopje at the foot of Mount Golak spread on both banks of the river Bregalnica lies the town of Delcevo It is the largest settlement in the Pijanec area which stretches over an area of 585km 226mi located between the Osogovo Mountains north and Malesevo south The city lies at an altitude of 590m 1 940ft to 640m 2 100ft Despite being located in the easternmost part of the country Delcevo has a relatively good geographical position and traffic connection It is a crossroads for eastern Macedonia Through Pehcevo 27km 17mi and Berovo 34km 21mi it is connected with Strumica to the south and through Makedonska Kamenica 24km 15mi and Kocani 51km 32mi it is connected with Stip to the northwest To the west is Vinica 39km 24mi and to the east is the border crossing with Bulgaria called Arnautski Grob Arnaut s grave 11km 7mi through which you can reach the capital of Pirin Macedonia Gorna Dzumaja Blagoevgrad 34km 21mi Climate EditThe climate in Delcevo is continental Eastern European The average annual temperature in Delchevo is 11 C 52 F with an absolute minimum of 26 C 15 F and an absolute maximum of 39 C 102 F while in higher areas the average annual temperature drops to 3 5 C 38 F The warmest month is August and the coldest is January Spring is always colder than autumn The cloudiness isn t strong so the year is dominated by sunny and clear days The average annual rainfall in Delchevo is 548 mm 22in and in the mountains over 1 600 meters 5 250ft above sea level and up to 1 000 mm 39in Precipitation although relatively low their distribution in the vegetation period April September is favorable and is over 50 of the total annual precipitation The vegetation period with a temperature higher than 10 C 50 F lasts 191 days during the year This favorable climate allows the growth of various plants and is also a very suitable natural condition for the development of tourism in this area Demographics EditAccording to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov Macedonia Ethnography and Statistics 1900 there were 1 520 inhabitants in Tsarevo Selo Delcevo of which 575 Bulgarians were Muslims 520 Bulgarians were Bulgarian Exarchists and 425 Turks 1 In the first organized census of SFR Yugoslavia from 1948 there were 20 159 inhabitants in the Tsarevo Selo area of which 3 173 in Tsarevo Selo Delcevo and 16 986 in the villages Pijanec Osogovo From an ethnic point of view the population consisted of 15 669 77 7 Macedonians 4 036 20 Turks but some of them were Macedonian Muslims 300 1 48 Roma and 154 others According to the 2002 census the city had a population of 11 500 and belonged to the group of medium sized towns The main ethnic group is Macedonian Romani people are the biggest minority Today more than 70 of Delcevo s Slavic population holds Bulgarian citizenship 2 Ethnicities Year Macedonians Roma Turks Serbs Albanians Aromanians Other Total1948 N A N A N A N A N A N A N A 3 1731953 1 596 178 1 127 90 2 0 40 3 0331961 2 645 N A 318 56 0 N A 128 3 1471971 4 464 172 353 51 11 N A 53 5 1041981 7 349 450 170 32 7 0 57 8 0651991 9 832 551 161 29 8 0 83 10 6641994 9 845 521 121 29 9 0 29 10 5542002 10 761 564 97 25 7 3 43 11 5002021 11 949 475 112 9 20 5 108 13 585The official language of the municipality is Macedonian and everyone can speak it Delchevo today has many beautiful languages and its population is very tolerant to new languages and cultures Languages Language Number PercentageMacedonian 10 851 94 36Romani 402 3 50Turkish 188 1 63Serbian 26 0 23Albanian 7 0 06Bosniak 2 0 02Aromanian 1 0 01Other 25 0 22Delcevo is a secular town The main religion is Orthodox Christianity Islam is mostly practiced by the Roma and Turkish minority The town has many churches and a mosque for its citizens Religions Religion Number PercentageOrthodox Christian 10 594 92 12Islam 660 5 74Protestantism 4 0 03Catholicism 3 0 03Other Atheism 239 2 08Sport and culture EditThe football club FK Bregalnica Delcevo play their home games at the City Stadion Goce Delcev which has a capacity of 5 000 people A festival in celebration of the Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary leader Goce Delcev is held every year on August 2 The ruins of the Byzantine village of Vasilevo lie about 3km 1 9mi southeast of the town and the Monastery of Sveta Bogoridica St Mother of Christ noted for its bright frescoes is situated about 3km 1 9mi to the southwest Cultural and social facilities EditChurches Edit Church Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God a church in the higher part of the city Church St Cyril and Methodius a new church in the lower part of the city Church St Kliment Ohridski a new church on the location where in 1961 by a decision of the then government a church was demolished Church St Naum Ohridski baptistery church Consecrated on August 4 2013 Church St Bogorodica grave church Church St Bogorodica Balaklija the main monastery church of the Delcevo Monastery Church Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God a monastery church in the Delcevo Monastery Schools Edit Secondary school Metodija Mitevski Brico Delcevo Primary school Vancho Prke Delcevo Primary school St Kliment Ohridski DelcevoTwin towns sister cities EditDelcevo is twinned with Blagoevgrad Bulgaria Bornova Turkey Gorazde Bosnia and Herzegovina Jagodina Serbia Mladost Varna Bulgaria Simitli Bulgaria Vyshhorod Ukraine Zyrardow PolandReferences Edit Kѫnchov Vasil Makedoniya Etnografiya i statistika Sofiya Blgarskoto knizhovno druzhestvo 1900 s 228 Elka Vasileva 70 ot makedonskiya grad Delchevo s BG grazhdanstvo Vecher Vse poveche makedonci iskat blgarski pasporti 4 yuni 2018 Dnes bg External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Delcevo Official site Delcevo com Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Delcevo amp oldid 1125385847, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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