Bosilegrad (Босилеград) is a town and municipality in Pčinja District of Central Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro. The municipality comprises an area of 571 sqkm. According to the 1991 census, the municipality of Bosilegrad had a population of 11,644 people. The ethnic Bulgarians form a majority of the population in the municipality. Pčinja District Pčinjski okrug The Pcinjski District expands in the southern parts of the Republic of Serbia. ... The term Serbia proper is often used in English to refer to the part of Serbia that lies outside the northern and southern autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina. ...

Demographics

According to the 2002 census data, the population of the Bosilegrad municipality was 9,931 people, and it was composed of:

• Bulgarians = 7,037 (70.86%)
• Serbs = 1,308 (13.17%)
• Others.

Serbs (in the Serbian language Срби, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ...

History

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia gained the region from Bulgaria following the Treaty of Neuilly, signed on November 27, 1919. Between 1920 and 1941 the population of the region was denied any right to education or church services in Bulgarian and was officially regarded as Serbian by the Yugoslav authorities, including changed Bulgarian names to Serbian. Its interests were protected by the Internal Western Provinces Revolutionary Organisation known as Vrtop. The previous governments in Belgrade neglected the area, which led to mass unemployment and low living standards. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a kingdom in the Balkans which existed from the end of World War I until World War II. It occupied an area made up of the present-day states of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, and most of present-day Slovenia... The Treaty of Neuilly, dealing with Bulgaria for its role as one of the Central Powers in World War I, was signed on the November 27, 1919 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. ... The Internal Western Outland Revolutionary Organisation ( Вътрешна западнопокрайненска революционна организация), IWORO, was a Bulgarian revolutionary organisation active in the Western Outlands in Serbia between 1921 and 1941. ... For other uses, see Belgrade (disambiguation). ...

See also

• Dimitrovgrad