Gyueshevo (, ; also transliterated ''Gjueshevo'', ''Giueshevo'', ''Gjueševo'') is a village in

Kyustendil Municipality Kyustendil Municipality is a municipality in Kyustendil Province, Bulgaria. The administrative centre is Kyustendil. Demography Religion According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the o ...

Kyustendil Province Kyustendil Province () is a province in southwestern Bulgaria, extending over an area of (constituting 2.7% of the total territory of the Republic of Bulgaria), and with a population of 106 131. It borders the provinces of Sofia, Pernik, and ...

, in western

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. the population is 275 and the mayor is Stoyne Maksimov. The village is located on the border with

North Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the n ...

and is the most important of the three

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s between the two countries. It is the last stop of the railway from

Sofia Sofia is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, in the western part of the country. The city is built west of the Is ...

. This railway was intended to link the capital to

Skopje Skopje ( , ; ; , sq-definite, Shkupi) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It lies in the northern part of the country, in the Skopje Basin, Skopje Valley along the Vardar River, and is the political, economic, and cultura ...

and in the late 1990's and early 2000's there was a plan to restart the completion of the line. The Train station was renovated and a Customs office was built on the Bulgarian side, however the Macedonian section of the line was not completed. The main source of income since 1945 was agriculture and the village's Led-Zinc mine, which was closed in 2003. Gyueshevo lies at , 1,016 metres above sea level, in the

Osogovo Osogovo ( Bulgarian/ Macedonian: ), or Osogovska Planina or Osogovski Planini (Осоговска Планина or Осоговски Планини), is a mountain range and ski resort between the south-western part of Bulgaria ( Kyustendil Pr ...

mountains. The local railway station was built in 1910, while the first school dates to 1888. The Prosveta community centre (''

chitalishte A ''chitalishte'' (, ) is a traditional Bulgarian public institution and building that fulfills several functions at once, such as a community centre, public library, and a theatre. It is also used as an educational institution, where people o ...

'') was opened in 1921. There is also a church mausoleum dedicated to the perished Bulgarian soldiers in the

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and the

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. Gyueshevo was first mentioned in 1570 as ''Gyuveshevo''. The name is thought to originate from the personal name Gyuesh, probably a derivative of

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; ''–esh'' is a rare personal name suffix used in names such as Dobresh, Malesh or Radesh.

Gallery

Image:Gyueshevo railway station.JPG, Railway station in Gyeshevo Image:GueshevoSvTroitza.JPG,

Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main Branches of Christianity, branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholic Church, Catholicism and Protestantism ...

church of the Holy Trinity Image:Gyueshevo Customs.jpg, Gyueshevo customs Image:Gyueshevopassportstamp.jpg, Passport stamp from the border with North Macedonia

References

Villages in Kyustendil Province Bulgaria–North Macedonia border crossings {{Kyustendil-geo-stub