Gotse Delchev, Blagoevgrad Province
Gotse Delchev (Bulgarian: Гоце Делчев [ˈɡɔt͡sɛ ˈdɛɫt͡ʃɛf]), is a town in Gotse Delchev Municipality in Blagoevgrad Province of Bulgaria.
Gotse Delchev
Гоце Делчев | |
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Monument of Gotse Delchev | |
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Seal | |
Gotse Delchev Location of Gotse Delchev (town) | |
| Coordinates: 41°34′N 23°44′E | |
| Country | Bulgaria |
| Province (Oblast) | Blagoevgrad |
| Municipality | Gotse Delchev Municipality |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Vladimir Moskov (BSP) |
| Elevation | 540 m (1,770 ft) |
| Population (2021) | |
| • City | 18,237 |
| • Urban | 29,585 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal Code | 2900 |
| Area code | 751 |
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).
Nearby are the remains of a walled city established by the Romans in the 2nd century AD. The town was a kaza in the Siroz sanjak of the Salonica vilayet before the Balkan Wars.
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