Bosilegrad

Bosilegrad (Cyrillic Босилеград ) is a Serbian town and municipality of the same name. It is located in the extreme southeast of Serbia on the border with Bulgaria and is adjacent to Dimitrovgrad a center of the Bulgarian minority in Serbia.

• 4.1 Town twinning

• 5.1 Sons of city

Location

Bosilegrad is located in the southeast of Serbia on the border with Bulgaria. The Serbian- Bulgarian border crossing Oltomanzi is located approximately 13 km south-east and the border crossing Strsimirowzi about 55 km northeast of the city. The nearest large town is the Bulgarian Kyustendil.

Population

In the census in 2002 lived in Bosilegrad 2702 with the following ethnic structure:

Population Development

History

Bosilegrad was after the First World War, ceded along with other areas in western Bulgaria from Bulgaria to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Treaty of Neuilly -sur -Seine, 1919). Bosilegrad is surrounded by mountains that reach heights of over 1,800 m.

Policy

Mayor of Bosilegrad is Vladimir Zaharijev (since 2009), politician of the party Demokratska stranka Srbije.

Twinning

• Kavarna, Bulgaria
• Kozloduy, Bulgaria

Personalities

Sons of the city

• Jordan Sachariew Bulgarian ethnographer
• Dimitar Mechandjijski (1916-1999), Bulgarian painter
• Wltko Gligorov, Bulgarian politicians
• Liuben Bojadschiew (1914-2003), Bulgarian painter
• Vasil Ivanov († 1967), Bulgarian freedom fighters