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Dimitrovgrad
Square in Dimitrovgrad, Bulg.
Dimitrovgrad
Bulgaria
Dimitrovgrad, town, south-central Bulgaria, in the fertile lowlands of the Maritsa River valley; it is a rail junction on the Belgrade-Sofia-Istanbul rail line. The new town, built in 1947 by Bulgarian youth, incorporated three existing villagesāRakovski, Mariino, and Chernokonovoāand is named after the Bulgarian communist leader Georgi Dimitrov.
Industries include the manufacture of chemicals, cement, and asbestos; and food canning. The local farms have a high yield of hothouse vegetables. The surrounding lignite-mining area, the Marbas coalfield, supplies the three Maritsa thermal-electric stations. Pop. (2004 est.) 42,529.
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