Belevehchevo Белевехчево
Village
Belevehchevo Location of Belevehchevo
Coordinates: 41°34′N 23°19′E / 41.567°N 23.317°E / 41.567; 23.317
Country	Bulgaria
Province	Blagoevgrad Province
Municipality	Sandanski
Area
• Total	1.87 km2 (0.72 sq mi)
Elevation	364 m (1,194 ft)
Population  (2013)[1]
• Total	1
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Belevehchevo (Bulgarian: Белевехчево) is a village in Sandanski Municipality, Blagoevgrad Province, south-western Bulgaria and as of 2013 has only 1 inhabitant.^[1] It lies at the south-western foothills of the Pirin mountains facing the Sandanski-Petrich Valley. It is located at about 1 km east of the municipal centre Sandanski and some 124 km south of the national capital Sofia.^[1]

In 1873 it had 32 households and 100 inhabitants, all of them Bulgarians. At the outbreak of the First Balkan War in 1912 13 people from Belevehchevo joined the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps that was formed in support the Bulgarian war effort against the Ottoman Empire.^[2]

Citations

References

• Collective (2006). Македоно-одринското опълчение 1912-1913 г. Личен състав [Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps 1912-1913. Personnel] (in Bulgarian). София (Sofia): Главно управление на архивите (General Department of Archives). ISBN 954-9800-52-0.

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