Botevgrad

city in Botevgrad municipality, Sofia oblast, Bulgaria
Place municipality_seat Q405426
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Summary

Botevgrad is a municipality seat[1]. Botevgrad ranks in the top 7% of municipality seat entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (613 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Botevgrad[3]
  • Country: Bulgaria[4]
  • Head of government: Ivan Gavalugov[5]
  • Continent: Europe[6]
  • Instance of: city in Bulgaria[7]
  • Named after: Hristo Botev[8]
  • Twinned administrative body: Saransk[9], Holbæk[10]
  • Postal code: 2140[11]
  • Commons category: Botevgrad[12]
  • Licence plate code: CO[13]
  • Local dialing code: 723[14]
  • Official website: http://www.botevgrad.org/[15], https://botevgrad.bg/[16]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Botevgrad[17]
  • Population: 23,257[18], 26,731[19], 22,983[20], 26,681[21], 23,087[22], 25,401[23], 23,015[24], 24,538[25], 21,284[26], 20,728[27], 20,468[28], 20,346[29], 20,504[30], 20,585[31]
  • Office held by head of government: mayor[32]
  • Described by source: Sytin Military Encyclopedia[33], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[34], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[35], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[36]
  • Capital of: Botevgrad[37]
  • Official name: Botevgrad[38], Ботевград[39]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Botevgrad[40]
  • Category for people who died here: Q32819154[41]
  • Native label: Ботевград[42]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Botevgrad[43]
  • Different from: Botevgrad[44]
  • Elevation above sea level: 395 m[45]
  • Area: 53.298 km²[46]

Why It Matters

Botevgrad has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[47] Botevgrad is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[48]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . NRPP. Retrieved . nsi.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . NRPP. Retrieved . nsi.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . grao.bg. grao.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . grao.bg. grao.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . grao.bg. grao.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . grao.bg. grao.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . grao.bg. grao.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . grao.bg. grao.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . grao.bg. grao.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . grao.bg. grao.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . nsi.bg. nsi.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . nsi.bg. nsi.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . nsi.bg. nsi.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . nsi.bg. nsi.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . nsi.bg. nsi.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . nsi.bg. nsi.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . NRPP. Retrieved . nsi.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . NRPP. Retrieved . nsi.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . NRPP. Retrieved . nsi.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . NRPP. Retrieved . az-pitam.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [47] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [48] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · Nikola Tulechki · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Native label → {'lang': 'bg', 'text': 'Ботевград'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Native label: Ботевград, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/291054|batch #291054]]"
  2. 3d ago · Nikola Tulechki · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Native label → {'lang': 'bg', 'text': 'Ботевград'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Native label: Ботевград, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/291012|batch #291012]]"
  3. 4d ago · Nikola Tulechki · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official name → {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Botevgrad'}, {'lang': 'bg', 'text': 'Ботевград'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Official name: Ботевград, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290766|batch #290766]]"
  4. 17d ago · Nikola Tulechki · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'ceb', 'ckb', 'commons', 'cs',
    Native label → {'lang': 'bg', 'text': 'Ботевград'}
    Sitelink count → 50
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Native label: Бо̀тевград, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/286655|batch #286655]]"
  5. 12w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43532|batch #43532]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  6. 20w ago · BGPopBot bot · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+23257'}, {'amount': '+26731'}, {'amount': '+22983'} +29
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ Population, nsi-population: add 2025 population (NSI demographics, preferred)"
  7. 24w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named after → —
    Elevation above sea level → {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+395'}
    Area → {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+53.298'}
    Category for maps or plans → Category:Maps of Botevgrad
    + 30 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ Added [[wikipedia:ur:بوٹیو گراڈ]]"
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