Novo Selo (Novo Selo)
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Novo Selo Ново Село |
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View of Novo Selo
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 Novo Selo
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| Coordinates: 41°24′50″N 22°52′51″E / 41.41389°N 22.88083°ECoordinates: 41°24′50″N 22°52′51″E / 41.41389°N 22.88083°E | |
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 Macedonia
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| Population (2002) | |
| • Total | 2,756 |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
Novo Selo (Macedonian: 
Ново Село , Turkish: Yeniköy) is a large village in the southeastern part of the Republic of 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 as of 2002[update]. Novo Selo lies, 238 m above sea level.
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 Aegean (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.
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