Pishtigovo

Pishtigovo Пищигово
Chitalishte "Probuda"
Pishtigovo Location of Pishtigovo, Bulgaria
Coordinates: 42°15′2.69″N 24°25′35.18″E / 42.2507472°N 24.4264389°E / 42.2507472; 24.4264389
Country	Bulgaria
Provinces (Oblast)	Pazardzhik Province
Government
• Mayor	Zhoro Panchev
Elevation	224 m (735 ft)
Population  (15.09.2022)
• Total	911[1]
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal Code	4495
Area code(s)	03514 from Bulgaria, 003593514 from outside

Pishtigovo (Bulgarian: Пищигово) is a village in southern Bulgaria. It has a population of 911 as of 2022.^[1]

Pishtigovo is located in central Pazardzhik Province and has a territory of 30.168 km².^[2] It is part of Pazardzhik Municipality. The distance between Pishtigovo and the municipal center Pazardzhik to the southwest is 12 km.^[3] It lies just north of the Trakia motorway and has direct road connections with the neighbouring villages of Chernogorovo to the northwest, Dobrovnitsa to the southwest and Malo Konare to the south, as well as to the town of Saedinenie to the east. About a kilometer to the west is the small village of Krali Marko, accessible by road via Chernogorovo.

Pishtigovo is situated in the western part of the Upper Thracian Plain, at 500 m from the river Luda Yana.

The Church of St Demetrius was constructed in 1865. It was destroyed during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. The first dedicated school building was constructed shortly after the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878 and burned down in a fire in 1914. The current school building was built in 1922. The chitalishte "Probuda" was established in 1929.

The village lies in a fertile agricultural area. Crops include rice, grapes, vegetables. Livestock breeding is also developed, mainly sheep, pigs and cattle.^[3] There is also a textiles workshop.

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• Мичев (Michev), Николай (Nikolay); Михайлов (Mihaylov), Цветко (Tsvetko); Вапцаров (Vaptsarov), Иван (Ivan); Кираджиев (Kiradzhiev), Светлин (Svetlin) (1980). Географски речник на България [Geographic Dictionary of Bulgaria] (in Bulgarian). София (Sofia): Наука и култура (Nauka i kultura).