Stamboliyski

Stambolijski (also: Stamboliyski; Bulgarian: Стамболийски ) is a city and administrative center of a municipality of the same name in the Oblast Plovdiv in central Bulgaria. The town of about 13,000 inhabitants located in the Thracian plain at the foot of the Rhodopes Mariza, approximately 18 km west of Plovdiv.

Structure

Community structure

Next to the city Stambolijski The municipality Stambolijski ( Bulg Община Стамболийски ) include the following four locations: Joakim Grudewo, Kurtowo Konare, Novo Selo and Triwodizi.

History

Stambolijski built in the years 1873-1875, as the Istanbul Belovo railway was built. Initially it was called Gara Krichim ( " Station Krichim " ), after Krichim, which was then the largest city in the area. The first settlers came from Brestowiza and Peroushtitsa. Together with the railway workers from Peschtera they founded a village north of the railway line. This was 1926 224 inhabitants per year. Refugees from areas of Thrace ( Thracian Bulgarians ) and Macedonia which were under foreign government, came in the years 1926 to 1928 here, so that the population by 1934 rose to 554. Traders from the larger cities founded businesses in Gara Krichim. The town developed into a regional industrial and transportation center. 1964 he was appointed to the city. After Krichim in 1969 also received the status of a city, it was named Novi Krichim ( "New Krichim "). In 1979 the name was changed in honor of Aleksandar Stambolijski Stamboliisky. Aleksandar Stambolijski (1879-1923) was from 1919 until his death, Prime Minister of Bulgaria.

Personalities

Stambolijski is the birthplace of Gawrail Panchew (born 1954 ), a Bulgarian philologist and author.