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The Current Local Date and Time in Gotse Delchev, Bulgaria (BG)

Time Zone Europe/Sofia

13:33:26

Local Time Date and Timezone

Where is Gotse Delchev? (Bulgaria, BG)

Gotse Delchev is a city located in Bulgaria (BG).
Latitude 41.56667 Longitude 23.73333

Gotse Delchev location on the Bulgaria (BG) map

Information about Gotse Delchev

City: Gotse Delchev
Country: Bulgaria (BG)
Latitude: 41.56667
Longitude: 23.73333
Time Zone: Europe/Sofia

Time zone and UTC offset ofGotse Delchev

Gotse Delchev, Bulgaria is in the Europe/Sofia time zone, which is currently UTC+3. This time zone observes daylight saving time (currently in effect). The next clock change is on October 25, 2026.

Current time difference with other cities

Gotse Delchev is 2 hours ahead of London
Gotse Delchev is 7 hours ahead of New York
Gotse Delchev is 10 hours ahead of Los Angeles
Gotse Delchev is 1 hour behind Dubai
Gotse Delchev is 6 hours behind Tokyo
Gotse Delchev is 8 hours behind Sydney

Frequently asked questions about time inGotse Delchev

What time zone is Gotse Delchev in?

Gotse Delchev, Bulgaria is in the Europe/Sofia time zone (currently UTC+3).

Does Gotse Delchev observe daylight saving time?

Yes, the clocks change during the year in this time zone.

What is the time difference between Gotse Delchev and New York?

Gotse Delchev is 7 hours ahead of New York (the difference can change when either place switches to or from daylight saving time).

What are the coordinates of Gotse Delchev?

Gotse Delchev is located at latitude 41.56667 and longitude 23.73333.

Sunrise, sunset and moon phase inGotse Delchev today

Astronomical data for October 16, 2026 in Gotse Delchev, calculated for the Europe/Sofia time zone. All times are local.

Sun

Sunrise: 07:38
Solar noon: 13:11
Sunset: 18:43
Length of day: 11 h 5 min

Moon

Moon phase: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 30%
Moon age: about 5.4 days
Moonrise: 13:32
Moonset: 22:07

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City of Gotse Delchev

Georgi Nikolov Delchev (Bulgarian: Георги Николов Делчев; Macedonian: Ѓорѓи Николов Делчев; 4 February 1872 – 4 May 1903), known as Gotse Delchev or Goce Delčev (Гоце Делчев), was a prominent Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary (komitadji) and one of the most important leaders of what is commonly known as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). He was active in the Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Adrianople regions, as well as in Bulgaria, at the turn of the 20th century. Delchev was IMRO's foreign representative in Sofia, the capital of the Principality of Bulgaria. As such, he was also a member of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee (SMAC) for a period, participating in the work of its governing body. Although he considered the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising premature, Delchev participated in its preparation. He was killed in a skirmish with an Ottoman unit on the eve of the uprising. Born into a Bulgarian Millet affiliated family in Kukush (today Kilkis in Greece), then in the Salonika vilayet of the Ottoman Empire, in his youth he was inspired by the ideals of earlier Bulgarian revolutionaries such as Vasil Levski and Hristo Botev, who envisioned the creation of a Bulgarian republic of ethnic and religious equality, as part of an imagined Balkan Federation. Delchev completed his secondary education in the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki and entered the Military School of His Princely Highness in Sofia, but at the final stage of his study, he was dismissed for holding socialist literature. Then he returned to Ottoman Macedonia and worked as a Bulgarian Exarchate schoolteacher, and immediately became an activist of the newly-found revolutionary movement in 1894. Although considering himself to be an inheritor of the Bulgarian revolutionary traditions, he opted for Macedonian autonomy. For him, like for many Slavic Macedonian prominent intellectuals, originating from an area with mixed population, the idea of being 'Macedonian' acquired the importance of a certain native loyalty, that constructed a specific spirit of "local patriotism" and "multi-ethnic regionalism". He maintained the slogan promoted by William Ewart Gladstone, "Macedonia for the Macedonians", including all different nationalities inhabiting the area. Delchev was also an adherent of incipient socialism. His political agenda became the establishment through revolution of autonomy for Macedonia and Adrianople regions into the framework of the Ottoman Empire, which in the case of Macedonia would lead to its inclusion into a future Balkan federation or confederation. It would to be a multiethnic state with the Bulgarian Macedonians as the dominant though tolerant majority among the various Macedonian peoples Despite having been educated in the spirit of Bulgarian nationalism, he was an opponent of the incorporation of Macedonia inside Bulgaria. Furthermore, he revised the Organization's first statute, where the membership was allowed only for Bulgarians, in order for it to depart from the exclusively Bulgarian nature, and IMRO begun to acquire a more separatist stance. In this way he emphasized the importance of cooperation among all ethnic groups in the territories concerned in order to obtain full political autonomy. Delchev is considered a national hero in Bulgaria and North Macedonia. While his autonomist ideas have stimulated the subsequent development of Macedonian nationalism, in the latter it is claimed he was an ethnic Macedonian revolutionary. Nevertheless, for part of the members of IMRO behind the idea of Macedonian autonomy a reserve plan for eventual annexation by Bulgaria was hidden. Per some of his contemporaries, closely associated with him, Delchev supported Macedonia's incorporation into Bulgaria as another option too. On the other hand, some researchers find the identity of Delchev and other IMRO figures to be open to different interpretations, dissimilar to modern Balkan nationalisms. Thus, his legacy has been disputed between both countries.
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