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Novo Selo, Novo Selo
Summary
Novo Selo () is a large village in the southeastern part of North Macedonia. It is the administrative centre of the eponymous municipality. Located in the valley of the Strumica River 9 km from the Bulgarian border, and close to border with Greece, it has a population of 2,756 . Novo Selo lies, 238 m above sea level.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 2,756 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:
Macedonians 2,726
Serbs 11
Romani 3
Bosniaks 2
Others 14
As of 2021, the village of Novo Selo has 1.967 inhabitants and the ethnic composition was the following:
Macedonians – 1.788
Albanians – 2
Serbs – 2
others – 9
Person without Data - 166
The Bulgarian military cemetery near Novo Selo is the final resting place of 71 Bulgarian military men of the 2nd Infantry Thracian Division and the 11th Infantry Macedonian Division who perished during the First and Second Balkan War and the First World War. While most of the soldiers were from various parts of modern Bulgaria, among the buried are also 15 people from Vardar Macedonia (two of them from Novo Selo), three people from Greek Macedonia, two from the Western Outlands in modern Serbia and one each from Eastern Thrace in modern Turkey, from Kosovo and from Dobruja. One Serbian prisoner of war and later two Serbian gendarmes were also interred at the cemetery, which was used as an argument in 1966 by the local mayor to save the cemetery from planned destruction (as happened to most Bulgarian cemeteries in the Macedonian SR of Yugoslavia) by proclaiming it a Serbian one.
Surrounded by a stone fence, the cemetery has identical crosses of valour over the graves, with the name of the interred, his rank, date of birth and death and native place also inscribed. A common memorial was erected in the central part, featuring a carved cross of valour and the inscription „Българио, за тебе тѣ умрѣха“ ("O Bulgaria, for you they died", from national writer Ivan Vazov's The New Graveyard Above Slivnitsa 1885 poem).
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