Delcevo – City in the eastern part of the Republic of Macedonia: 11,500 h. (2002). It is located in the drunken pool, on both sides of the river Bregalnica, at an altitude of 580 m. It covers an area of 350 ha. It has a moderate-continental climate with an average annual air temperature of 10.5 ° C and average annual precipitation of 515 mm. The main road M-5 in the West is related to Kocani, and east with Blagoevgrad, in neighboring Bulgaria. In the south of D., along the valley of Bregalnica, leads a national road that, through Pehcevo, connects the city with Berovo. Under the name Tsarevo, the village is first mentioned in a Charter of King Dushan of 1347, and his current name was given in 1951, in honor of the Macedonian revolutionary Goce Delchev. Until the end of ⅹⅰⅹ c., Because of the geographical periferity, the settlement existed only as a larger village. Then, as the center of the Pijanec district, functionally and economically began to develop and received a landmark of a town. In 1900 The settlement counted 2,686 h. In the period between the two world wars it registered stagnation, and the population is numerically decreasing. In 1931 In the settlement, 2,387 h. Slightly Interest Development D. accomplishes in the second half of the last century. So, while in 1953 In it there were 5,520 h., Today that number has increased to 11,500 h. Of these Macedonians are 10,761 h., Roma 564 h. and Turks 97 h. D. is the seat of a municipality that covers an area of 42,239 ha, there are 22 settlements with 17,205 h. The main economic branch in the city is the textile industry. In Pijanec, significant reserves of coal of the Lignite type, but they are still not exploited. There is a gymnasium, a health center, a monument to Goce Delchev. Lit.: D. Arsovski, D. Hristovski, Delcevo, Delcevo, 1974; Kiril Miljovski, etc., economic potentials of the municipality of Delcevo, MANU, Skopje, 1985. Al. ST.
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