Struma – a river that is formed from the marsh terrain of Mount Vitosha in Bulgaria, under the black peak (2,286 m), flows through the Pirin and Aegean part of Macedonia and flows into the Aegean Sea, in Orifhane Bay. Long is the fortress kings towers, Strumica, the annual air temperature is 12.9 ° C, and the average annual amount of precipitation 583 mm. Strumica is an old city, which in ancient time is mentioned under the name Astraum. In and c. The city of Emperor Tiberius stayed in the city. In Strumica there is the grave of his daughter Struma, according to which the Slavs later did today’s name. The current MES is renewed in the time of Samuel, at the beginning of ⅺ c. In the surroundings of the city in 1014 The famous battle was played between the armies of Tsar Samuel and Byzantine King Vasily ⅱ, in which Samuil’s army suffered a heavy defeat, 14,000 soldiers were released, and each hundred was left for one eye to guide the blinded. The place where that genocide people marked the name with the name Vodoca. Due to the favorable geopolitical position in the Middle Ages, the city had strategic significance. In the period of Turkish rule, especially in ⅹⅴⅰⅰⅰ and ⅹⅰⅹ c., Because he was lying on the famous and quite busy Serban road, he became a commercial center. In it every year in the month of August, the famous fifteen-day fair was maintained. At the end of ⅹⅰⅹ c. The city had 10,160 h. Among the two world wars, as a border place, Strumica loses former functions in 1921. Only 5,866 h lived here. Economic and populations start to quickly develop even in the second half of the last century. Today, most of the population in it are Macedonians (32,075 h.), And from minorities – Turks (2,642), small number of Serbs (157) and Roma (130). It is the seat of a municipality that covers an area of 32,149 ha, there are 25 settlements with 54,670 h. The city is a commercial, cultural and educational and administrative center of the Strumica valley. It has developed a textile, ceramic, metal, wood and food industry. There is a gymnasium, Visa Agricultural School, House of Culture, National Theater, National Museum, Memorial Museum “Blagoj Jankov-Muco”, a library, health center, and from the cultural and historical monuments, the imperial towers above the city, Streshmen grave and The monasteries “Vodoca” and “Veljusa” (ⅺ c.). In the village. Bansko is discovered one of the oldest Rome baths in Macedonia. Lit.: M. Rists ¢, Strumica, “Brotherhood” Kne. Ⅹⅰⅹ, Belgrade, 1925; Census of the population, households and apartments in the Republic of Macedonia, 2002, REC. J, DSH, Skopje, 2004. Al. ST.
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