{{Infobox settlement | name = Gelemenovo | native_name = Черногорово | native_name_lang = bg | pushpin_relief = 1 | pushpin_map = Bulgaria | settlement_type = Village | image_skyline = Gelemenovo-municipality.jpg | image_flag = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flag|Bulgaria}} | subdivision_type1 = Oblast | subdivision_type2 = Opština | subdivision_name1 = Pazardzhik | subdivision_name2 = Pazardzhik | leader_title = Mayor (Municipality) | leader_party = | leader_name = | leader_title1 = Mayor (Town Hall) | leader_name1 = | area_total_km2 = 15.754 | elevation_m = 234 | population_total = 707 | population_footnotes=<ref name="grao">{{cite web |url=https://www.grao.bg/tna/t41nm-15-03-2024_2.txt|title=Tables of Persons Registered by Permanent Address and by Current Address|website=Official Site of the Civil Registration and Administrative Services (GRAO)|accessdate=30 April 2025}}</ref> | population_as_of = 2024 | population_density_km2 = auto | coordinates = {{coord|42|16|N|24|19|E|region:BG|display=inline,title}} | postal_code = 4444 | area_code = 03522 | registration_plate = РА }}
'''Gelemenovo''' ({{langx|bg|Гелеменово}}) is a village in Pazardzhik Municipality, Pazardzhik Province, southern Bulgaria. {{As of|2024}} the population is 707.<ref name="grao"/><ref name="Geographic Dictionary of Bulgaria 133">{{harvnb|Geographic Dictionary of Bulgaria|1980|p=133}}</ref>
== Geography == Gelemenovo is situated at an altitude of 240 m in a hilly area in the western part of the Upper Thracian Plain between the small rivers Elshishka reka and Telkidere, which merge south of the village and then flow into the Maritsa of the Aegean Sea basin. Through its southern outskirts runs an irrigation channel from the river Topolnitsa. The village falls within the transitional continental climatic zone. The soils are smolnitsi and cinnamon forest soils.<ref name="Encyclopaedia Bulgaria 34">{{harvnb|Encyclopaedia Bulgaria, Volume II|1981|p=34}}</ref>
Administratively, Gelemenovo is located in Pazardzhik Municipality in the central part Pazardzhik Province and has a territory of 15.754 km<sup>2</sup>.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.guide-bulgaria.com/SC/pazardjik/pazardjik/gelemenovo|title= Bulgaria Guide, Gelemenovo|accessdate=30 April 2025}}</ref> It lies some 8 km north of the provincial seat, the city Pazardzhik. The closest settlements are the villages of Apriltsi to the north, Chernogorovo and Krali Marko to the east, Saraya to the south, and Yunatsite to the southwest. The village is located at the junction between the Trakiya motorway and the second class II-37 road.<ref name="Geographic Dictionary of Bulgaria 133"/><ref name="Encyclopaedia Bulgaria 34"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.api.bg/bg/1607347252.html|title=A Map of the Republican Road Network of Bulgaria|website=Official Site of the Road Infrastructure Agency|access-date=30 April 2025|archive-date=11 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250111162456/https://www.api.bg/bg/1607347252.html/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Culture == The village was first mentioned in Ottoman documents of 1689. The local school was established immediately after the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878. There are a medical center and a church. The village cultural center, known in Bulgarian as a ''chitalishte'', was established in 1927 and was named "Narodna Mladezh", meaning People's Youth. It maintains a library and a folklore group.<ref name="Encyclopaedia Bulgaria 34"/><ref>{{Cite web |url= https://chitalishta.com/community/863/950 |title= Chitalishte Narodna Mladezh, Gelemenovo |website=Register of the Chitalishta of Bulgaria|accessdate=30 April 2025}}</ref>
== Economy == The village lies in a fertile agricultural area. Crops include grain, vegetables and fruits. Livestock breeding is also developed. There is an anti-hail installation near the village with disperses the hail-clouds in the summer with special missiles.<ref name="Geographic Dictionary of Bulgaria 133"/><ref name="Encyclopaedia Bulgaria 34"/>
== Gallery == <gallery mode="packed"> File:Gelemenovo-post-office.jpg | Gelemenovo Post office File:Rice-mills-in-Gelemenovo.jpg | Rice mill in Gelemenovo File:Photovoltaic-power-station-in-Gelemenovo.jpg | Photovoltaic power station near Gelemenovo </gallery>
==Citations== {{Reflist|2}}
== References == {{commons category|Gelemenovo}} * {{cite book | ref={{harvid|Encyclopaedia Bulgaria, Volume II|1981}} | title = Енциклопедия България. Том II. Г-З | trans-title = Encyclopaedia Bulgaria. Volume II. G-Z | last = Георгиев (Georgiev) | first = Владимир (Vladimir) | others = и колектив | year = 1981 | language = bg | publisher = Издателство на БАН (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Press) | location = София (Sofia) }} * {{cite book | ref={{harvid|Geographic Dictionary of Bulgaria|1980}} | title = Географски речник на България | trans-title = Geographic Dictionary of Bulgaria | last1 = Мичев (Michev) | first1 = Николай (Nikolay) | last2 = Михайлов (Mihaylov) | first2 = Цветко (Tsvetko) | last3 = Вапцаров (Vaptsarov) | first3 = Иван (Ivan) | last4 = Кираджиев (Kiradzhiev) | first4 = Светлин (Svetlin) | chapter = | year = 1980 | language = Bulgarian | publisher = Наука и култура (Nauka i kultura) | location = София (Sofia) | isbn = }}
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Category:Villages in Pazardzhik Province