Delčevo (Macedonian: Делчево)
is a small town in the eastern mountainous part of the Republic of Macedonia. It is the municipal
seat of the eponymous municipality. The town is named after
revolutionary Goce Delčev.
The
town of Delčevo is situated at the foot of Mount Golak on both banks of the
river Bregalnica,
164 km (102 mi) to the east of Skopje. It is the
biggest settlement in the Pianec region which covers an area of 585 km2
(226 sq mi), between Mount Osogovo to the north and Mount Maleš to the south. The
town lies at 590 m (1,936 ft) to 640 metres (2,100 ft) above sea
level. Delčevo has a good geographical position and good traffic connections.
All rural settlements and recreations centred around Golak are connected with
the town of Delčevo by good asphalt roads of local and regional types. Golak's
Tourist Center is located 10 km (6 mi) south of Delcevo at 1,300 m
(4,270 ft) height above sea level, under the Chavka peak (1358 m) of the
mountain Golak. The distinctive Recreation Center was built in 1981 and has 5
apartments, 8 hotel rooms and a restaurant with 170 seats as its own terens for
small football, basketball and volleyball.
Delčevo was first mentioned in a charter of Serbian
Emperor Stefan Dušan in the 14th century.
The town has changed its name several times. During the Ottoman
period it was visited by a Sultan personally. A large number of Christian
people converted to Islam,
and at that time the town was called "Sultania" or "Sultaniye".
The Islamised Christian population hadn't learned the Turkish
language and they renamed Sultania into their own language, Tsarevo Selo
(Tsar's village).
One year before Sultan Mehmed II, the Turkish travel writer Evlija
Celebija had passed there and wrote: "After Vinica we climbed
upon Kocani mountain meadow and after 4 hours walking along the ravine, we
arrived in Tsarevo Selo. This is a Muslim village and it lays in the mountain
ornamented with 100 houses and one marvelous mosque with minaret".
The town has borne its present name Delčevo since 1950, in
honour of the celebrated revolutionary and ideologist Gotse
Delchev who had often visited the place while he was teaching in the
village of Novo Selo, near Štip.
After the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878 much of
the Christian population left for Bulgaria
and Turkish
people from Asia moved in to take their
place. There was a second big movement thirty years later during the Balkan wars,
but this time with an emigration of much of the Turkish population.
Between the two world wars Delčevo was a small provincial
town of dilapidated houses and a small number of craft shops with narrow muddy
streets.
own stadium, swimming pool and sport hall are placed where
Delcevo citizens spend their free time planned for sport and recreation.
Small dams Petrasevec and Sandanski, located
left and right of the old road Delcevo - Trabotiviste offer pleasant hours
of resting and sport-fishing
RKC Golak is located only
10 km south of Delcevo at 1300 m height above sea level, under the Chavka (1358 m) of the mountain Golak. Recreation center is founded in
the year 1981 and it has 5 apartments, 8 hotel rooms and a restaurant with 170
seats as its own terrains for small football, basketball and volleyball.
Many vacation places are built there and weekend houses of
Delcevo companies. The Recreation center is among a 100 year old pine and beech
trees.
Far from town noise, wonderful vegetation, clean fresh air
and cold clear mountain water are just what the visitors souls need. In winter,
under thick snow cover, Golak offers unforgettable and unique
sights.
here are big number of companies in Delcevo which are in
trade - hotel management work (shops,taverns, boutiques) and they are located
mostly in the town center.
All necessary products from food and industries, as well
as industrial products for mass consumption can be bought there.
Green groceries market is a place where people supply
themselves with agricultural products from local origin, but from
municipalities of east and center parts of the country too. Current green
market doesn't satisfy the necessities of the people, so there is need of
building a new one.
ZIK
"Sandanski", AD " Ilinden"
and other small restaurants, coffee bars, sandwich bars and so on are bearers
of catering services. In their restaurants various specialties are made of
traditional Macedonian kitchen. Well known home made plum brandy. They also
offer various soft drinks and alcoholic drinks made by Macedonian producers and
are world famous trade marks.
