Dimitrovgrad, Serbia
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Dimitrovgrad (Serbian: Dimitrovgrad or Димитровград, Bulgarian: Цариброд, transliterated as Caribrod, Tzaribrod or Tsaribrod) is a town and 483 km² municipality located in the Pirot District of Serbia. According to 1991 census, the municipality of Dimitrovgrad had a population of 13,488 people.
Demographics
According to the 1991 census, the absolute ethnic majority in the municipality were ethnic Bulgarians, while according to the 2002 census, the municipality was somehow ethnically mixed, with relative Bulgarian ethnic majority.
According to the 2002 census data, the population of the Dimitrovgrad municipality was 11,748 people, and it was composed of:
- Bulgarians = 5,836 (49.68%)
- Serbs = 3,005 (25.58%)
- Others.
History
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia gained the region from Bulgaria following the Treaty of Neuilly, signed on November 27, 1919. Between 1920 and 1941 the population of the region was denied any right to education or church services in Bulgarian and was officially regarded as Serbian by the Yugoslav authorities, including changed Bulgarian names to Serbian. Its interests were protected by the Internal Western Provinces Revolutionary Organisation known as Vrtop. The previous governments in Belgrade neglected the area, as they did the whole of southern Serbia, which led to mass unemployment and low living standards.
See also
External links
- [Official municipality web site]
- [The Bulgarian minority cultural community in Dimitrovgrad]
- [Report of the United Nations on the situation of the Bulgarian minority in Dimitrovgrad]
- [Caribrod's News Group]
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