Dupnitsa

Sister cities

• Bryansk
• Kriva Palanka

History

The town has existed since ancient times. The German traveller Arnold von Harff visited Dupnitsa On a hill overlooking the town there is a giant cross, commemorating the Bulgarians who perished in the Balkan Wars and World War I. On the same hill there lay the ruins of a medieval fortress. During World War II over 4,000 Jews from parts of Greece and Yugoslavia annexed by Bulgaria were arrested on 4 March 1943 and deported, some to an internment camp in Dupnitsa. Many of them were from Komotini and Xanthi. After 11 to 12 days in the Dupnitsa camp, on 18 – 19 March they were transferred by train to Lom on the Danube for extermination at Treblinka. As part of the Bulgarian Commissariat for Jewish Affairs's policy of deporting Jews, Dupnitsa also was between June 1943 and September 1944 the site of a ghetto for 1,624 Jews expelled from Sofia, even though there was ultimately no exterminations of Jews resident within Bulgaria's pre-war borders. Hristov and Galev are fugitives after having been sentenced to five and four years respectively but are still believed to control the town.

Most-observed species

• corn bunting

  Emberiza calandra Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  234
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  209
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  206
• White Stork

  Ciconia ciconia (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  141
• White Wagtail

  Motacilla alba Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  140
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  140
• Common House-Martin

  Delichon urbicum (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  131
• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  121

Most recent

• M 3.5 — 2023-09-09
  2 km SE of Simitli, Bulgaria
• M 4.2 — 2022-04-25
  6 km SW of Kocherinovo, Bulgaria
• M 4 — 2022-04-25
  10 km SW of Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
• M 2.9 — 2022-01-16
  2 km NNW of Radomir, Bulgaria
• M 4.4 — 2019-12-30
  14 km S of Samokov, Bulgaria
• M 4.2 — 2018-08-02
  17 km NW of Gotse Delchev, Bulgaria