Sandanski – City in the Pirin part of Macedonia, the Republic of Sandanski Lican Bulgaria, with 26,600 h. (2002). It is located in the eastern part of the Sandanska valley and the southwestern footer of the Pirin Mountain, at an altitude of about 220 m. The climate has changed Mediterranean with a medium annual temperature of 13.9 ° C. Through the city flows the River Sandanska Bistrica on which two hydropower plants were built. In the northeastern part of S. There are thermomineral sources with a share of 20 l / SEC. and water temperature between 65 and 81 ° C. They allowed in 1981 S. To be declared a balneological center of international significance. Since 1929 S. Any village carried the name of Saint Doctor until 1949, when he was renamed Sandanski on behalf of the great Macedonian revolutionary Jane Sandanski. The population in the city is especially rising after 1956. when in S. lived 10,630 h., and in 2002 There are already 26,600 h. The industry is a leading branch in the economy. The pharmaceutical, electrical engineering, mechanical and non-metal industry has been developed. The city has a gymnasium, four medium technical and four primary schools, general hospital, sanitary-balneological complex, archaeological museum, a monument of Jane Sandanski, etc. Lit.: Encyclopedia Pirinski Kraÿ, t. Ⅱ, Blagoevgrad, 1999. Al. ST.
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