Delcevo
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Delčevo is a small town in the eastern mountainous part of the Republic of Macedonia
. It is the municipal seat of the eponymous municipality
. The town is named after revolutionary Goce Delčev.
, 164 km (102 mi) to the east of Skopje
. It is the biggest settlement in the Pianec region which covers an area of 585 km² (226 sq mi), between Mount Osogovo to the north and Mount Maleš to the south. The town lies at 590 m (1,936 ft) to 640 metres (2,100 ft) above sea level. Delčevo has a good geographical position and good traffic connections. All rural settlements and recreations centred around Golak are connected with the town of Delčevo by good asphalt roads of local and regional types. Golak's Tourist Center is located 10 km (6 mi) south of Delcevo at 1300 m (4,265.1 ft) height above sea level, under the Chavka peak (1358 m) of the mountain Golak. The distinctive Recreation Center was built in 1981 and has 5 apartments, 8 hotel rooms and a restaurant with 170 seats as its own terens for small football, basketball and volleyball.
Stefan Dušan in the 14th century.
The town has changed its name several times. During the Ottoman
period it was visited by a Sultan personally. A large number of Christian people converted to Islam
, and at that time the town was called "Sultania" or "Sultaniye". The Islamised Christian population hadn't learned the Turkish language
and they renamed Sultania into their own language, Tsarevo Selo (Tsar
's village). One year before Sultan Mehmed II
, the Turkish travel writer Evlija Celebija had passed there and wrote: "After Vinica
we climbed upon Kocani mountain meadow and after 4 hours walking along the ravine, we arrived in Tsarevo Selo. This is a Muslim village and it lays in the mountain ornamented with 100 houses and one marvelous mosque with minaret."
The town has borne its present name Delčevo since 1950, in honour of the celebrated revolutionary and ideologist Gotse Delchev
who had often visited the place while he was teaching in the village of Novo Selo, near Štip
.
After the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878
much of the Christian population left for Bulgaria and Turkish people
from Asia moved in to take their place. There was a second big movement thirty years later during the Balkan wars
, but this time with an emigration of much of the Turkish population.
Between the two world wars Delčevo was a small provincial town of dilapidated houses and a small number of craft shops with narrow muddy streets.
Primary school "Vanco Prke" has 4 regional schools of which two primary at the villages Bigla and Dramce and two elementary at villages Gabrovo and Zvegor.
Primary school "St.Kliment Ohridski" has 5 regional schools of which 3 are primary at the villages Razlovci, Trabotiviste and Grad and two elementary at the villages Virce and Stamer. 1970 pupils from first to eight grade attend lectures in two schools and about 100 children are at pre school education while 134 teachers perform the educational work.
In 1961 the secondary school- gimnazija "M.M.Brico" began with work in Delcevo.Today there are 1120 pupils at the governmental secondary school "M.M.Brico" and 64 teachers are included in the educational work. The school has regional classes in the municipality near - Makedonska Kamenica
.
Small dams Petrasevec and Sandanski, located left and right of the old road Delcevo - Trabotiviste offer pleasant hours of resting and sport-fishing
Many vacation places are built there and weekend houses of Delcevo companies. The Recreation center is among a 100 year old pine and beech trees.
Far from town noise, wonderful vegetation, clean fresh air and cold clear mountain water are just what the visitors souls need. In winter, under thick snow cover, Golak offers unforgettable and unique sights.
Present day Delcevo is a town with equally represented industry and agriculture. Textile industry production capacities are within the Industrial zone for small economy, and conditions for faster development will be made.
The most important cultural scientific manifestation is Goce's days which is traditionally held every year at the beginning of June. For the first time, the manifestation began in 1966, in Delcevo and very soon from local by state it got an international character.
Anniversary celebrations of Razlovci Uprising, first of many Macedonian Uprising are very important for Delcevo.
At traditional Golak folklore meetings (Golacki folkorni sredbi) which are held every year on 8–9 August, cultural clubs from Delcevo and surrounding places present part of our rich folklore. Representatives from sister town of Delcevo Jagodina
from Serbia and the border town Simitli
from R.Bulgaria are always there with their performances.
All necessary products from food and industries, as well as industrial products for mass consumption can be bought there.
Green groceries market is a place where people supply themselves with agricultural products from local origin, but from municipalities of east and center parts of the country too. Current green market doesn't satisfy the necessities of the people, so there is need of building a new one.
ZIK "Sandanski", AD " Ilinden" and other small restaurants, coffee bars, sandwich bars and so on are bearers of catering services. In their restaurants various specialties are made of traditional Macedonian kitchen. Well known home made plum brandy. They also offer various soft drinks and alcoholic drinks made by Macedonian producers and are world famous trade marks.
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Republic of Macedonia
Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...
. It is the municipal seat of the eponymous municipality
Delcevo municipality
Delčevo is a municipality in eastern Republic of Macedonia. Delčevo is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. Delčevo Municipality is part of the Eastern Statistical Region.- Geography :...
. The town is named after revolutionary Goce Delčev.
Demographics
Delčevo has 11,500 residents.| Number | % | |
| TOTAL | 11,500 | 100 |
| Macedonians Macedonians (ethnic group) The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness... |
10,761 | 93.57 |
| Roma | 564 | 4.90 |
| others | 175 | 1.52 |
Geographical Position
The town of Delčevo is situated at the foot of Mount Golak on both banks of the river BregalnicaBregalnica
Bregalnica is the second largest river in the Republic of Macedonia. It starts as a spring near the mountain city of Berovo and it passes near the cities of Makedonska Kamenica, Kočani, Vinica and Štip, before joining the river Vardar on its way to the Aegean Sea...
, 164 km (102 mi) to the east of Skopje
Skopje
Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia with about a third of the total population. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre...
. It is the biggest settlement in the Pianec region which covers an area of 585 km² (226 sq mi), between Mount Osogovo to the north and Mount Maleš to the south. The town lies at 590 m (1,936 ft) to 640 metres (2,100 ft) above sea level. Delčevo has a good geographical position and good traffic connections. All rural settlements and recreations centred around Golak are connected with the town of Delčevo by good asphalt roads of local and regional types. Golak's Tourist Center is located 10 km (6 mi) south of Delcevo at 1300 m (4,265.1 ft) height above sea level, under the Chavka peak (1358 m) of the mountain Golak. The distinctive Recreation Center was built in 1981 and has 5 apartments, 8 hotel rooms and a restaurant with 170 seats as its own terens for small football, basketball and volleyball.
History
Delčevo was first mentioned in a charter of Serbian EmperorSerbian Empire
The Serbian Empire was a short-lived medieval empire in the Balkans that emerged from the Serbian Kingdom. Stephen Uroš IV Dušan was crowned Emperor of Serbs and Greeks on 16 April, 1346, a title signifying a successorship to the Eastern Roman Empire...
Stefan Dušan in the 14th century.
The town has changed its name several times. During the Ottoman
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
period it was visited by a Sultan personally. A large number of Christian people converted to Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
, and at that time the town was called "Sultania" or "Sultaniye". The Islamised Christian population hadn't learned the Turkish language
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
and they renamed Sultania into their own language, Tsarevo Selo (Tsar
Tsar
Tsar is a title used to designate certain European Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers. As a system of government in the Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire, it is known as Tsarist autocracy, or Tsarism...
's village). One year before Sultan Mehmed II
Mehmed II
Mehmed II , was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire for a short time from 1444 to September 1446, and later from...
, the Turkish travel writer Evlija Celebija had passed there and wrote: "After Vinica
Vinica
Vinica or Vinitsa may refer to:* Vinica , a place in the Tomislavgrad land council* Vinica, Črnomelj, a village in the Municipality of Črnomelj, Slovenia* Vinica, Macedonia, a town in the Vinica Municipality of Macedonia...
we climbed upon Kocani mountain meadow and after 4 hours walking along the ravine, we arrived in Tsarevo Selo. This is a Muslim village and it lays in the mountain ornamented with 100 houses and one marvelous mosque with minaret."
The town has borne its present name Delčevo since 1950, in honour of the celebrated revolutionary and ideologist Gotse Delchev
Gotse Delchev
Georgi Nikolov Delchev was an important revolutionary figure in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Thrace at the turn of the 20th century...
who had often visited the place while he was teaching in the village of Novo Selo, near Štip
Štip
Štip is the largest urban agglomeration in the eastern part of the Republic of Macedonia, serving as the economic, industrial, entertainment and educational focal point for the surrounding municipalities. As of the 2002 census, the Štip municipality alone had a population of about 47,796...
.
After the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878
Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878
The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 was a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Orthodox coalition led by the Russian Empire and composed of numerous Balkan...
much of the Christian population left for Bulgaria and Turkish people
Turkish people
Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...
from Asia moved in to take their place. There was a second big movement thirty years later during the Balkan wars
Balkan Wars
The Balkan Wars were two conflicts that took place in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe in 1912 and 1913.By the early 20th century, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia, the countries of the Balkan League, had achieved their independence from the Ottoman Empire, but large parts of their ethnic...
, but this time with an emigration of much of the Turkish population.
Between the two world wars Delčevo was a small provincial town of dilapidated houses and a small number of craft shops with narrow muddy streets.
Education
A big importance is given to educational work in Delcevo municipality but in the past it had an assimilatory role. Finally for the first time in summer 1944 the Macedonian word was heard in schools. Today the educational work is performed at two primary and one secondary public school.Primary school "Vanco Prke" has 4 regional schools of which two primary at the villages Bigla and Dramce and two elementary at villages Gabrovo and Zvegor.
Primary school "St.Kliment Ohridski" has 5 regional schools of which 3 are primary at the villages Razlovci, Trabotiviste and Grad and two elementary at the villages Virce and Stamer. 1970 pupils from first to eight grade attend lectures in two schools and about 100 children are at pre school education while 134 teachers perform the educational work.
In 1961 the secondary school- gimnazija "M.M.Brico" began with work in Delcevo.Today there are 1120 pupils at the governmental secondary school "M.M.Brico" and 64 teachers are included in the educational work. The school has regional classes in the municipality near - Makedonska Kamenica
Makedonska Kamenica
Makedonska Kamenica is a city in the north-east of the Republic of Macedonia. It has 8,110 inhabitants, the majority of whom are ethnic Macedonians. The town is the seat of Makedonska Kamenica Municipality.-External links:*...
.
Sport
Town stadium, swimming pool and sport hall are placed where Delcevo citizens spend their free time planned for sport and recreation.Small dams Petrasevec and Sandanski, located left and right of the old road Delcevo - Trabotiviste offer pleasant hours of resting and sport-fishing
Tourism
RKC Golak is located only 10 km south of Delcevo at 1300 m height above sea level, under the Chavka (1358 m) of the mountain Golak. Recreation center is founded in the year 1981 and it has 5 apartments, 8 hotel rooms and a restaurant with 170 seats as its own terrains for small football, basketball and volleyball.Many vacation places are built there and weekend houses of Delcevo companies. The Recreation center is among a 100 year old pine and beech trees.
Far from town noise, wonderful vegetation, clean fresh air and cold clear mountain water are just what the visitors souls need. In winter, under thick snow cover, Golak offers unforgettable and unique sights.
Economy and Agriculture
The first development of the town started in the second half of the 20th century, so today Delcevo is a modern town with contemporary, wide and well ordered streets, building objects and places for recreation and holiday. Among first established enterprises are: Monopol (Tobako Company) Today Delcevo - Tabak and Sandanski in the field of agriculture; Pirin and Ilinden in the field of trade and Paltex and Kozarnica M.M.Brico in the field of industry.Present day Delcevo is a town with equally represented industry and agriculture. Textile industry production capacities are within the Industrial zone for small economy, and conditions for faster development will be made.
Culture
Bearers of municipality activities are: Civic center N.J.Vapcarov, the library Ilinden, KUD "Goce Delcev" Drama studio at the Civic center, as well as some associations, inhabitants which take care for folk and modern music and painting.The most important cultural scientific manifestation is Goce's days which is traditionally held every year at the beginning of June. For the first time, the manifestation began in 1966, in Delcevo and very soon from local by state it got an international character.
Anniversary celebrations of Razlovci Uprising, first of many Macedonian Uprising are very important for Delcevo.
At traditional Golak folklore meetings (Golacki folkorni sredbi) which are held every year on 8–9 August, cultural clubs from Delcevo and surrounding places present part of our rich folklore. Representatives from sister town of Delcevo Jagodina
Jagodina
Jagodina is a city and municipality located in central Serbia, 136 km south of Belgrade, on the banks of Belica River. Its name stems from the word for strawberry in Serbian. It is the administrative centre of the Pomoravlje District of Serbia...
from Serbia and the border town Simitli
Simitli
Simitli is a small city in Blagoevgrad Province in southwestern Bulgaria. It has a population of 7,454 and is located 17 km south of Blagoevgrad.-Geography:...
from R.Bulgaria are always there with their performances.
Trade, Hotel and Restaurant Management
There are big number of companies in Delcevo which are in trade - hotel management work (shops,taverns, boutiques) and they are located mostly in the town center.All necessary products from food and industries, as well as industrial products for mass consumption can be bought there.
Green groceries market is a place where people supply themselves with agricultural products from local origin, but from municipalities of east and center parts of the country too. Current green market doesn't satisfy the necessities of the people, so there is need of building a new one.
ZIK "Sandanski", AD " Ilinden" and other small restaurants, coffee bars, sandwich bars and so on are bearers of catering services. In their restaurants various specialties are made of traditional Macedonian kitchen. Well known home made plum brandy. They also offer various soft drinks and alcoholic drinks made by Macedonian producers and are world famous trade marks.
Twin towns — Sister cities
Delčevo is twinnedTown twinning
Twin towns and sister cities are two of many terms used to describe the cooperative agreements between towns, cities, and even counties in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.- Terminology :...
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SimitliSimitliSimitli is a small city in Blagoevgrad Province in southwestern Bulgaria. It has a population of 7,454 and is located 17 km south of Blagoevgrad.-Geography:...
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JagodinaJagodinaJagodina is a city and municipality located in central Serbia, 136 km south of Belgrade, on the banks of Belica River. Its name stems from the word for strawberry in Serbian. It is the administrative centre of the Pomoravlje District of Serbia...
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