Dimovo ( ) is a town in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Vidin Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Dimovo Municipality, which lies in the eastern part of Vidin Province, from Vidin at the Danube and from Bregovo at the Timok River and the Serbian border. As of December 2009, Dimovo had a population of 1,211 inhabitants. Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
The town is located in the western Danubian Plain. Until the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, it was known as Barzitsa (Бързица) in Bulgarian, but it had the Ottoman name Osmaniye. In 1880, it was renamed to Aleksandrovo after the Bulgarian knyaz Alexander I of Battenberg. It was briefly named Vlaykovo in honour of Todor Vlaykov in 1936, but the name was changed back to honour Alexander as Knyaz Aleksandrovo in the same year. Finally, the modern name of Dimovo was established in 1951, after local partisan Zhivko Puev's nickname, Dimo.
Municipality
Dimovo municipality has an area of and includes the following 23 places:
Archar Bela Dalgo Pole Darzhanitsa Dimovo Gara Oreshets Izvor Karbintsi Kladorub Kostichovtsi Lagoshevtsi Mali Drenovets Medovnitsa Oreshets Ostrokaptsi Septemvriytsi Shipot Skomlya Varbovchets Vladichentsi Vodnyantsi Yanyovets Yarlovitsa
References
External links Dimovo municipality page at the Vidin Province website