Bozhurishte

Demographic figures from NSI Bulgaria. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

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Overview

Bozhurishte is a town in western Bulgaria. It is the administrative center of Bozhurishte Municipality in Sofia Province; close to Kostinbrod and the capital Sofia. The old airport of Sofia, now a military one, is near the town. Bozhurishte was first mentioned in 1750. It is situated in the Sofia Valley.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Dimitar Penev

Bulgarian footballer (1945-2026)

Pavel Pavlov

Olympic wrestler

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Tsvetan Atanasov

Bulgarian footballer

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Boris Kyosev

Bulgarian politician

Georgi Iliev

Bulgarian footballer

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Yordan Tsvetanov

Kiril Kostov

Poli Paskova

Bulgarian basketball player and singer

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Stefan Emanuilov Kožucharov

Bulgarian literary historian

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Traycho Dobroslavski

Bulgarian politician

Li͡ubomir Kanov

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Simeon Vladimirov

Bulgarian translator

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Krstan Krstanov

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Ivan Ruslanov

Bulgarian journalist

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Nikola Nikolov

Marta de Cidrac

French politician

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Sofia Province

• Gurmazovo
  2 mi away · pop. 434
• Kostinbrod
  3.5 mi away · pop. 11,423
• Pojarevo
  3.5 mi away · pop. 313
• Golianovtsi
  4.9 mi away · pop. 638
• Rosoman
  6.1 mi away
• Hrabarsko
  7.7 mi away · pop. 569
• Mala Rakovitsa
  7.7 mi away
• Gradets
  8.2 mi away
• Tsarichina
  9.6 mi away
• Galabovtsi
  10.1 mi away
• Vlado Trichkov
  11 mi away
• Ponor
  11.4 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

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