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Blagoevgrad (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 42 01 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 42.0167 decimal degrees |
| Long: 023 06 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 23.1000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Blagoevgrad is a town in southwestern Bulgaria situated in the Struma River Valley. An ancient Thracian settlement, it grew up here around the warm mineral springs. It belonged to the Ottoman Empire from 1396 to 1878. Today it serves as the chief center of Bulgarian Macedonia, carries on a busy trade in Oriental tobacco, and hosts wood, textile, and canning industries along with an opera house and several educational institutions. Its 2003 estimated population was 70,900. |
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| Blagoevgrad (preferred,C,V,Bulgarian,U,N)
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............ | after Dimitǔr Blagoev, founder of Bulgarian Communist Party, used after 1950 |
| Gorna Dzhumaya (H,V)
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| Dzhumaya (H,V,Turkish (transliterated),U,N)
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............ | name used by Turks, 14th-19th cen. |
| Džumaja (H,V)
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| Scaptopara (H,V)
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............ | Thracian name |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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was a Thracian settlement |
| town (C) |
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| provincial capital (C) |
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| spa center (C) |
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| trade center (C) |
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| manufacturing center (C) |
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