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Bosilegrad

Field	Value
native_name	sr-Cyrl

{{native name	bg	Босилеград	italics	off}}
native_name_lang	Serbia
official_name	Bosilegrad
settlement_type	Town and municipality
image_shield	Grb Bosilegrada.png
image_flag	Flag of Bosilegrad.svg
image_skyline	{{Photomontage	position=center
photo1a	Bosilegrad-house-03.jpg
photo1b	Bosilegrad-school-3.jpg
photo2a	Bosilegrad-entrance.jpg
photo2b	Vasil Levski Bosilegrad.jpg
photo3a	Bosilegrad-church-01.jpg
photo3b	Bosilegrad-fountains.jpg
size	270
spacing	1
color	#FFFFFF
border	1
foot_montage	}}
image_map	File:Municipalities of Serbia Bosilegrad.png
map_caption	Location of the municipality of Bosilegrad within Serbia
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Serbia
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name1	Southern and Eastern Serbia
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	Pčinja
parts_type	Settlements
parts_style	para
p1	37
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Vladimir Zaharijev
leader_party	To Smo Mi
area_blank1_title	Town
area_blank1_km2	18.37
area_blank2_title	Municipality
area_blank2_km2	571
area_footnotes
elevation_m	696
population_footnotes
population_as_of	2022 census
population_blank1_title	Town
population_blank1	2,348
population_density_blank1_km2	auto
population_blank2_title	Municipality
population_blank2	6,065
population_density_blank2_km2	auto
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	17540
area_code_type	Area code
area_code	+381(0)17
blank_name	Car plates
blank_info	VR
website
blank_name_sec1	Official languages
blank_info_sec1	Serbian together with Bulgarian

bg Bosilegrad (Босилеград; ) is a town and municipality located in the Pčinja District of southern Serbia. The municipality comprises an area of 571 km2. According to the 2022 census, the town has a population of 2,348, while the municipality has 6,065 inhabitants.

Along with Dimitrovgrad (Tsaribrod), Bosilegrad is an economic and cultural centre of Serbia's ethnic Bulgarian community.

History

Historically, Bosilegrad was part of Bulgaria. On May 15, 1917, Serbian paramilitaries (Chetniks) under the command of Kosta Pećanac crossed the old Bulgarian border and, as part of the Toplica Uprising, captured Bosilegrad, which they then burned. Then Pećanac and his band withdrew to Kosovo, which was controlled by the Austro-Hungarian Army.

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes gained some territory from Bulgaria as part of the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine, following the invasion and occupation of part of the Kingdom of Serbia by Bulgaria and subsequent Allied defeat of the Central Powers in the First World War. From 1929 to 1941, it was part of Vardar Banovina. The Bulgarian army occupied Bosilegrad during the Second World War from 1941 to 1944. At the end of the Second World War, Bulgaria switched sides in the war and in October 1944 gave the occupied Western outlands back to Yugoslavia.

Settlements

Aside from the town of Bosilegrad, the municipality consists of the following villages:

Barje
Belut
Bistar
Brankovci
Bresnica
Buceljevo
Gložje
Goleš
Gornja Lisina
Gornja Ljubata
Gornja Ržana
Gornje Tlamino
Grujinci
Doganica
Donja Lisina
Donja Ljubata
Donja Ržana
Donje Tlamino
Dukat
Žeravino
Zli Dol
Izvor
Jarešnik
Karamanica
Milevci
Mlekominci
Musulj
Nazarica
Paralovo
Ploča
Radičevci
Rajčilovci
Resen
Ribarci
Rikačevo
Crnoštica

Demographics

|1948|18816 |1953|19751 |1961|18368 |1971|17306 |1981|14196 |1991|11644 |2002|9931 |2011|8129 |2022|6,065 According to the 2022 census, the municipality of Bosilegrad has 6,065 inhabitants. Only 32.28% of inhabitants live in urban areas.

Ethnic groups

The majority of municipality's population are Bulgarians, amounting to 72.3% of total population. Other minor ethnic groups are Serbs and Roma people. The ethnic composition of the municipality:

Ethnic group	Population
1971	title=Nacionalni sastav stanovništva SFR Jugoslavije (1981)	url=http://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/G1981/Pdf/G19814001.pdf	website=stat.gov.rs	publisher=Republički zavod za statistiku	access-date=2 June 2015	url-status=dead	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040602/http://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/G1981/Pdf/G19814001.pdf	archive-date=4 March 2016}}	title=STANOVNIŠTVO PREMA NACIONALNOJ PRIPADNOSTI (1991)	url=http://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/G1991/pdf/G19914021.pdf	website=stat.gov.rs	publisher=Republički zavod za statistiku	access-date=2 June 2015	url-status=dead	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304194932/http://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/G1991/pdf/G19914021.pdf	archive-date=4 March 2016}}	Population
2002	Population
2011	title=2022 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings	url=https://publikacije.stat.gov.rs/G2023/PdfE/G20234001.pdf	access-date=2023-12-07}}
Bulgarians	-	-	-	7,037	5,839	4,075
Serbs	292	616	1,165	1,308	895	786
Macedonians	58	49	-	42	38	26
Montenegrins	13	6	6	3	2	1
Romani	13	10	3	-	162	143
Muslims	1	1	10	-	-	-
Yugoslavs	255	3,976	1,649	288	20	18
Others	16,675	9,538	8,811	1,253	1,173	1,016
Total	17,306	14,196	11,644	9,931	8,129	6,065

Gallery

File:Bosilegrad-view.jpg|Town of Bosilegrad File:Bosilegrad1.JPG|Bosilegrad town street File:Bosilegrad5.JPG|Bosilegrad town hall File:Vasil Levski Bosilegrad.jpg|Unveiling of the monument of Bulgarian revolutionary Vasil Levski File:Bosilegrad-school-2.jpg|School in Bosilegrad File:Serbian-Bulgarian border at Bosilegrad.jpg|Serbia–Bulgaria State border File:Bosilegrad-church-01.jpg|Bosilegrad Church File:Izvora-church-02.jpg|Church in Izvor, Bosilegrad File:Lisinsko jezero4.JPG|Lisinsko Lake in Bosilegrad

References

"Статут општине Босилеград". Municipality of Bosilegrad.
{{Serbian municipalities 2006
{{Serbian census 2022
"2022 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings".
Велизар Енчев, Югославската идея: исторически, политически и международни аспекти на доктрината за национално освобождение и държавно обединение на южните славяни, Захарий Стоянов, 2009, ISBN 9540902673, стр. 314.
"2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia". Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia.
"Knjiga III: Nacionalni sastav stanovništva FNR Jugoslavije (1971)". Republički zavod za statistiku.
"Nacionalni sastav stanovništva SFR Jugoslavije (1981)". Republički zavod za statistiku.
"STANOVNIŠTVO PREMA NACIONALNOJ PRIPADNOSTI (1991)". Republički zavod za statistiku.
"Popis stanovnistva, domacinstava i stanova u 2002".
"Попис становништва, домаћинстава и станова 2011. у Републици Србији". Republički zavod za statistiku.

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