Dimovo

Dimovo Димово
Panoramic overview of Dimovo
Dimovo Location of Dimovo
Coordinates: 43°45′N 22°44′E / 43.75°N 22.733°E / 43.75; 22.733
Country	Bulgaria
Provinces (Oblast)	Vidin
Government
- Mayor	Todor Todorov
Elevation	75 m (246 ft)
Population (December 2009)[1]
- Total	1,211
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
- Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal Code	3750
Area code(s)	09341

Dimovo (Bulgarian: Димово [ˈdimuvu]) is a town in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Vidin Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Dimovo Municipality, which lies in the eastern part of Vidin Province, 30 kilometres from Vidin at the Danube and 50 kilometres from Bregovo at the Timok River and the Serbian border. As of December 2009, Dimovo has a population of 1,211 inhabitants.^[1]

The town is located in the western Danubian Plain. Until the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, it was known as Barzitsa (Бързица) in Bulgarian, but it had the Ottoman name Osmaniye. In 1880, it was renamed to Aleksandrovo after the Bulgarian knyaz Alexander I of Battenberg. It was briefly named Vlaykovo in honour of Todor Vlaykov in 1936, but the name was changed back to honour Alexander as Knyaz Aleksandrovo in the same year. Finally, the modern name of Dimovo was established in 1951, after local partisan Zhivko Puev's nickname, Dimo.

Municipality

Main article: Dimovo Municipality

The primary school and the Eastern Orthodox church in Dimovo

Dimovo municipality has an area of 402 square kilometres and includes the following 23 places:

Archar Bela Dalgo Pole Darzhanitsa Dimovo Gara Oreshets Izvor Karbintsi Kladorub Kostichovtsi Lagoshevtsi Mali Drenovets

Medovnitsa Oreshets Ostrokaptsi Septemvriytsi Shipot Skomlya Varbovchets Vladichentsi Vodnyantsi Yanyovets Yarlovitsa

References

1. ^ ^{a b} (English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009

External links

• Dimovo municipality page at the Vidin Province website (Bulgarian)

Coordinates: 43°45′N 22°44′E / 43.75°N 22.733°E / 43.75; 22.733