General Toshevo
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| General Toshevo Генерал Тошево |
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  General Toshevo
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| Country |  Bulgaria |
| Provinces (Oblast) |
Dobrich |
| Government | |
| - Mayor | Dimitar Mihaylov (BSP) |
| Elevation | 230 m (755 ft) |
| Population (2005-09-13) | |
| - Total | 8,542 |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| - Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
| Postal Code | 9500 |
| Area code(s) | 05731 |
| License plate | TX |
| Website: http://www.toshevo.org/ | |
General Toshevo (Bulgarian: Генерал Тошево) is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Dobrich Province. Located in the historic region of Southern Dobruja, it is the administrative centre of a municipality and was named after the noted Bulgarian General Stefan Toshev.
What is today General Toshevo was first mentioned in Ottoman tax registers as Kasιm in 1573; according to archaeological evidence, the area had been settled by Getae in antiquity, and then by the Ancient Romans. It remained under Ottoman rule until the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878. Following the Second Balkan War, Bulgaria was forced to cede it to Romania along with all of Southern Dobruja. It was initially renamed to Sfântul Dumitru ("Saint Demetrius") in 1918 from Casim and then, in 1934, to Ion Gheorghe Duca in honour of the politician and Prime Minister of Romania assassinated by the Iron Guard the previous year.
The village was ceded back to Bulgaria according to the Treaty of Craiova of 1940. It acquired its present name in 1942, and was declared a town in 1960.
[edit] Municipality
General Toshevo is the seat of a municipality of Dobrich Province, which includes the following 42 places:
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