Hadzhidimovo ( bg, Хаджидимово ) is a small town and the centre of

Hadzhidimovo Municipality Hadzhidimovo Municipality ( bg, Община Хаджидимово, ) is situated in the southeastern part of Blagoevgrad Province in southwestern Bulgaria. The administrative center is the town of Hadzhidimovo, located in the northern part of th ...

in Blagoevgrad Province, south-western

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. It is located in the southernmost part of Bulgaria, bordering on

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in the Chech region.

Geography

The town lies in the

Mesta River Nestos ( ), Mesta ( ), or formerly the Mesta Karasu in Turkish (Karasu meaning "black river"), is a river in Bulgaria and Greece. It rises in the Rila Mountains and flows into the Aegean Sea near the island of Thasos. It plunges down towering c ...

valley, surrounded by the heights of Rila,

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, Slavyanka, Shilka, Bozdag, and the Western

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Mountains. Although the town is located in a Mediterranean climate region, temperatures quite often fall below 0° in winter, and the summers are hot with temperatures sometimes reaching 45° Celsius.

History

Hadzhidimovo was formed through the merger of the villages of Gorna Singartia and Dolna Singartia. Throughout the 19th century, researchers listed the two villages as having a predominantly ethnic

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population with a Turkish minority.Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г., Македонски научен институт, София, 1995, стр. 126-127. For a while after the merger, the settlement was known as Zhostovo, after Bulgarian general

Konstantin Zhostov Konstantin Andonov Zhostov ( bg, Константин Андонов Жостов) (30 September 1867 – 30 August 1916) was a Bulgarian general and Chief of the Bulgarian Army Staff. Biography Konstantin Zhostov was born in the village o ...

who was born in nearby Gaytaninovo. Today, it bears the name of leftist

Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO; bg, Вътрешна Македонска Революционна Организация (ВМРО), translit=Vatrešna Makedonska Revoljucionna Organizacija (VMRO); mk, Внатр� ...

(IMRO) revolutionary Dimo Hadzhidimov since 1951. Hadzhidimovo was proclaimed a town in 1996.

Transportation

The municipality is crossed by the II-19 highway from

Gotse Delchev Georgi Nikolov Delchev ( Bulgarian/ Macedonian: Георги/Ѓорѓи Николов Делчев; 4 February 1872 – 4 May 1903), known as Gotse Delchev or Goce Delčev (''Гоце Делчев'', originally spelled in older Bulgar ...

, Koprivlen, and Sadovo to the Greek border at Ilinden.

References

Description of Hadzhidimovo on en.journey.bg

Description on www.guide-bulgaria.com
Populated places in Blagoevgrad Province Chech Bulgaria–Greece border crossings Towns in Bulgaria Hadzhidimovo Municipality {{Smolyan-geo-stub