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ID: 1026850
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1026850

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Blagoevgrad (inhabited place)  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

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.

Names:
Blagoevgrad (preferred,C,V,Bulgarian,U,N)  ............ after Dimitǔr Blagoev, founder of Bulgarian Communist Party, used after 1950
Gorna Dzhumaya (H,V)
Dzhumaya (H,V,Turkish (transliterated),U,N)  ............ name used by Turks, 14th-19th cen.
Džumaja (H,V)
Scaptopara (H,V)  ............ Thracian name

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Bulgaria (nation)  ........  Bulgaria (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Blagoevgrad (province)  ............  Blagoevgrad (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Blagoevgrad (inhabited place)  ................  Blagoevgrad (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was a Thracian settlement
town (C)
provincial capital (C)
spa center (C)
trade center (C)
manufacturing center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Blagoevgrad..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 267
Dzhumaya..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 267
Džumaja..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 267
Gorna Dzhumaya..........  [VP]
.............................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Scaptopara..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 267
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 267
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 17 Nov. 2003

 

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