Gevgelija – City in the Gevgelija-Valandovo valley: 15.685 h. (2002). Extends from the right side of r. Vardar and Macedonian-Greek border in the plain part of the eponymous valley. Immediately besides the city from the east side, the European road is-75 passes. In the same direction leads the railway line. The city lies at an altitude of 60 m and covers an area of 705 ha. It has changed Mediterranean air climate with an average annual air temperature of 14,2S. The main hydrographic object in the city is a horse river that flows through its central part, and the river Vardar passes on the east side. 4 km from the city in the village. Negorci is a Negor bath. Today’s city developed from a small settlement in the second half of ⅹⅰⅹ c. In 1863 There were only about 60 houses in the settlement. The name comes from the word Zewar – two Walls or Zevgelija – Oressan. Her rapid development begins after the construction of Thessaloniki railway – Skopje in 1873. In 1886 It becomes a cose and is declared a city. In 1894 In Mr. One of the first textile factories in Macedonia is built, a silk plant known under the name “Fairature”. It had 60 legs for silk and two Kazana for Cogourci, and 180 workers worked in it. Silence was the main occupation of the population. Toward the end of ⅹⅰⅹ c. D. She had about 4,400 h. of which 3,000 h. They were Macedonians, 1,200 Turks and cherkes and little Vlachs and Jews. During the First World War because of Gevgelija, military ravings, and in the period between the two world wars as a border place, the economy in the city declined and the population declined. In 1921 In Mr. Lived only 2.878 h. Interested development city is experiencing 1948. onward. In 2002 D. There are 15,685 h. Of them 15.060 h. or 96% are Macedonians. Among minorities most present with 292 h. or 1.9% are Serbs, then the Vlachs (201 h. or 1.3%), Turks (28 h.) and Roma (12 h.). D. is the seat of a municipality that covers an area of 48,343 ha, there are 17 settlements with 22,988 h. The built hydrosystems enabled the expansive development of gardening and viticulture. From the industrial buildings in Mr. There is a refrigerator for refrigerator “Dawn”, more small apparel factories, a high-frequency ceramics factory, a wine cellar with the processing capacity of 8,000 tonnes of grapes, poultry farm and other smaller industrial facilities. The city has a gymnasium, Rabotnicki University, a National Museum with an ethnological, historical and archeological department. In the immediate vicinity of Mr. On the left side of Vardar, an old Macedonian settlement was discovered on Vardar Rid, which existed before, in time and after the reign of Alexander the Great. Lit.: Mitko Panov, Geography of SR Macedonia, natural and sociogeographic characteristics, REC. And, Skopje, 1976; After-II’s population, households and apartments in the Republic of Macedonia, 2002 – REC. Ⅹ, Skopje, 2004. Al. ST.
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