Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sofia – the capital city of Bulgaria and the largest settlement in the country – is the administrative centre of both Sofia Province and Sofia City Province (Sofia-grad). The capital is included (together with three other cities plus 34 villages) in Sofia Capital Municipality (over 90% of whose population lives in Sofia), which is the sole ...
Map of Bulgaria. This is a complete list of all cities and towns in Bulgaria sorted by population. Province capitals are shown in bold. Primary sources are the National Statistical Institute (NSI) [1] and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. [2] The largest city is Sofia with about 1.4 million inhabitants and the smallest is Melnik with about 300 ...
The Provinces of Bulgaria — in Southeastern Europe.; Since 1999 the primary Bulgarian District subdivisions were renamed Provinces of Bulgaria.. Bulgaria has been divided into 28 Provinces (Bulgarian: области, oblasti; singular област, oblast) since 1999 — which correspond approximately to the former 28 Districts (okrugs) that existed before 1987.
Municipalities of Bulgaria Provinces of Bulgaria. The 28 provinces of Bulgaria are divided into 265 municipalities (община, obshtina).Municipalities typically comprise multiple towns, villages and settlements and are governed by a mayor who is elected by popular majority vote for a four-year term, and a municipal council which is elected using proportional representation for a four-year ...
Map of the provinces of Bulgaria. Politics of Bulgaria. Constitution. 1879; 1947; 1971; 1991; ... the country administrative were divided to 12 provinces (Bulgarian: ...
List of villages and towns in Montana Province; ... List of cities and towns in Bulgaria; Municipalities of Bulgaria This page was last edited on 6 ...
The unique type of urban settlement in Bulgaria is called grad (Bulgarian: град – grad). For urban settlements which are province seats see Category:Cities in Bulgaria . Contents
Blagoevgrad Province: Slavic 1950 [1] Named after the city of Blagoevgrad, itself a recent construct from Blagoev + the Slavic suffix -grad, "Blagoev's city". Blagoev is from the Bulgarian personal name Blagoy, from blag, "sweet, figuratively- gentle and kind". Named after Bulgarian Socialist Party founder Dimitar Blagoev.