General Toshevo

Coordinates: 43°42′N 28°2′E / 43.700°N 28.033°E / 43.700; 28.033
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General Toshevo
Генерал Тошево
License plate
TX
Websitehttp://www.toshevo.org/

General Toshevo (Bulgarian: Генерал Тошево [ɡɛnɛˈraɫ ˈtɔʃɛvo]; Romanian: Casim) is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Dobrich Province. Located in the historic region of Southern Dobruja, it is the administrative centre of the homonymous municipality and was named after the noted Bulgarian General Stefan Toshev. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 7,130 inhabitants.[1]

History

What is today General Toshevo was first mentioned in

Ion Gheorghe Duca in honour of the politician and Prime Minister of Romania assassinated by the Iron Guard the previous year. It was also a district (plasă) centre of Caliacra County
under Romanian rule.

The village was ceded back to Bulgaria according to the Treaty of Craiova of 1940. It acquired its present name in 1942, and was declared a town in 1960.

There is a world-acknowledged Institute for Wheat and Sunflower established in 1951.

Municipality

General Toshevo is the seat of a municipality of Dobrich Province, which includes the following 42 places:

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Bulgaria

Twin towns — Sister cities

General Toshevo is

twinned with:[2]

Notes

  1. ^ a b (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - towns in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Archived copy". www.namrb.org. Archived from the original on 15 December 2008. Retrieved 22 May 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "ПОКАНА ЗА БОЛГРАД - НДТ, Добрич, България". Archived from the original on 2017-03-26. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
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