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Flag of Berovo - Image by Mello Luchtenberg, 10 July 2007
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The municipality of Berovo (13,941 inhabitants; 598.07 sq. km) is made of the town of Berovo and the eight villages of Budinarci, Vladimirovo, Dvorište, Mačevo, Mitrašinci, Ratevo, Rusinovo and Smojmirovo.
Berovo is located at an elevation of 1,000 m asl in the mountains of
eastern North Macedonia. Lake Berovo and the Malsevo mountains are popular
sites for tourism.
Berovo has been a center of monachism since the building of a first
monastery consecrated in 1818. At that time, Berovo was a small village
with a ruined church. Friar Peco, the parish priest, was commissionned
by the villagers to obatin a building permit from the Turkish Vali
(Governor) of Radoviš. The conditions given by the Vali were impossible to fulfill: the church was to be built below the road level and not to
be seen, within 40 days, while Peco's youngest daughter had to join he
Sultan's harem. The church was indeed built above ground and in more
than 40 days, and the promised girl had left. Three church elders were
murdered in front of the church and Peco was thrown into jail; three
years later, he was released and his daughter came back to learn that
the Governor had been killed. All of that is a nice legend, since there
is no historical record of the building of the church!
The first nuns' monastery was founded 20 years after the buildign of
the church. In the beginning of the 20th century, the monastery had up
to 60 nuns, who managed a seminary, a weaving mill and the first power
plant in the region.
[Strumica Diocese website]
Ivan Sache, 12 August 2007
As communicated by the municipal administration, the flag of Berovo is in proportions 1:2, blue with a red print of the municipal emblem in the middle.
Lake Berovo with its dam, the monastery and the pine forest of Berovo
seem to be portrayed on the municipal emblem.
The flag was used with a white background during the ZELS Expo 2009.
The vertical table flag used during the same event has a light blue
background and some unreadable writing below the emblem.
Valentin Poposki & Ivan Sache, 15 April 2010