General Todorov ( ) is a village in Petrich Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria.Guide Bulgaria, Accessed May 5, 2010 Before 1984, it was known as Pripechene ( ). As of 2013, it had a population of 668.Guide Bulgaria, Accessed 26 September, 2022
History
The previous name of the village is Pripechene (). During the Ottoman period, the village had a mixed Bulgarian and Turkish population. According to an Ottoman document from 1519 there were 6 Muslim and 39 non-Muslim households in Pripechene. The main occupation of the population in Pripechene was farming rice.Матанов, Христо. Възникване и облик на Кюстендилския санджак през XV-XVI век, София 2000, таблица 9. A Vasil Kanchov study of 1900 counted 114 Bulgarian and 70 Turkish inhabitants. Васил Кънчов. „Македония. Етнография и статистика“. София, 1900, с. 190. - Kanchov, Vasil. "Macedonia. Ethnography and statistics". Sofia, 1900, p. 190.
The village was renamed General Todorov after general Georgi Todorov in 1984.
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