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Municipal flag of Pehčevo - Image by Mello Luchtenberg & António Martins, 17 November 2006
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The municipality of Pehčevo (5,517 inhabitants; 208.2 sq. km),
located in eastern Macedonia, is made of the town of Pehčevo and the 6 settlements of Negrevo, Pančarevo, Robovo, Umleca, Crnik and Čiflik.
The municipality is fairly isolated and lives mostly from agriculture,
producing the malesevsko sirense, the country top-priced sheep's
cheese.
Pehčevo was one of the centers of the Razlovec Uprising, which broke
out against the Ottomans in May 1876. The uprising was well prepared
and well organised: arms, gun power and lead had been purchased in
Solun and the people secretly prepared for an insurrection. Fearing
that the Turks had already discovered their plans, the rebels started
the uprising earlier. It broke out in the village of Razlovec near
Berovo, and quickly spread to the area around Pehčevo, the whole of Malesevija, and the upper course of the River Bregalnica. After some
initial successes, the rebellion was put down by strong Turkish forces.
The captured rebels were taken to Solun, Seres, Skopje and other towns
where they were cruelly tortured and put to death. The Razlovec
Uprising was the first organised armed resistance by the Macedonian
people against the Ottomans, and created the beginning of the
Macedonian liberation and revolutionary struggle.
The seismic zone of Pehčevo-Kresna experienced the strongest earthquake
ever recorded in Macedonia on 4 April 1904 (maximum occurred Richter
magnitude: 7.8).
Source: Cybermacedonia
Ivan Sache, 17 November 2006
The municipal flag of Pehčevo, as shown on the Macedonian Ministry of Local
Self-Government website (page no longer online), is quartered blue-red by a yellow saltire which forms in the middle of the flag a disc with two vertical points and
surrounds the municipal coat of arms.
The coat of arms shows a mountain landscape lit by the sun.
Ivan Sache, 17 November 2006