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Dimitrovgrad, Serbia
Dimitrovgrad () is a town and 483 km² large municipality located in the Pirot District of the Republic of Serbia. According to 2011 census, the municipality of Dimitrovgrad has a population of 10,118 people and the town 6,278.
==Name==
The official Serbian name is ''Dimitrovgrad'' (Димитровград), but the name ''Caribrod'' (Цариброд) is also used in Serbian. In Bulgarian, the name ''Tsaribrod'' (Цариброд) is preferred because there is another town called Dimitrovgrad on the Maritsa river in Bulgaria and Tsaribrod was used before the town became part of Yugoslavia; it can sometimes be transliterated as ''Caribrod'' or ''Tzaribrod''.
Dimitrovgrad was named after Georgi Dimitrov, a Bulgarian Communist leader who advocated a union between the Bulgarians and remaining Yugoslav nations to form the Balkan Federation. The idea was abandoned when Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito failed to reach agreements with Joseph Stalin (Tito-Stalin split), however Dimitrov himself did not become unpopular in Yugoslavia from the breakdown and subsequently, the name of the town continued to be in honour of him despite many Bulgarians themselves having preferred Caribrod.
There have been attempts to return the old name, ''Caribrod'', but the last referendum, held on Sunday, June 13, 2004, was invalid due to a low turnout. Only 47.8% of the 9,811 voters on the electoral roll turned out to vote, while 50% was the required minimum. Of those who voted on the issue, 2,586 were in favour of keeping the name ''Dimitrovgrad'', while 1,786 wanted the name ''Caribrod'' to be returned.〔http://www.danas.rs/20040619/vikend5.html#1〕
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