Bratsigovo
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Bratsigovo (Bulgarie: Брацигово) is a toun in Soothren Bulgarie an the caipital o Bratsigovo Municipality. It is locatit in the fuithills o the Rhodope Muntains, on the banks o the Umishka River in Pazardzhik oblast, an is close tae the touns o Peshtera an Krichim.
Bratsigovo Брацигово | |
|---|---|
 St John the Precursor Kirk | |
 Coat airms | |
  Bratsigovo Location o Bratsigovo | |
| Coordinates: 42°1′N 24°22′E | |
| Kintra | Bulgarie |
| Provinces (Oblast) | Pazardzhik |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Sonya Misheva |
| Elevation | 599 m (1,965 ft) |
| Population (15.12.2004) | |
| • Total | 4,646 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal Code | 4579 |
| Area code(s) | 03552 |
Bratsigovo Hills on Trinity Peninsula in Antarcticae are namit efter the toun.[1]
Aircheological evidence haes shown that the aurie wis inhabitit bi Thracians an later Slavs.
Historical records show the tounship wis established at some point in the 16t-17t hunderyear, biggit ower the ruins o a earlier dounset. The foonders o the new town were Bulgarie emigrants frae the wastren pairt o Aegean Macedonie, frae the vicinity o Kostur.[2][3]
The population o Bratsigovo teuk a active pairt in the Apryle Uprisin o 1876.
The toun is developin as a balneological center, an aw. Thare is a cauld mineral watter spring (18-26 C) wi the flow rate o 120 liters per minute at the distance o 500 metres wast o it. Thare is a balneo-sanatorium biggit up here. The mineral watter treats some skin diseases, the nervous seestem, kidney relatit diseases an ithers. Thare is a nice pairk an a kintra-hooses zone aroond it.
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