Razlog

The municipality of Razlog comprises the villages of Banya, Gorno Draglishte, Dobarsko, Bachevo, Godlevo, and Eleshnitsa with a total population of 20,410. Dobarsko, located on the southern slopes of Rila, is home to several historical landmarks. The Church of Theodore Tyro and Theodore Stratelates is a national monument of culture. The church has an abundance of original murals and frescoes, including ones depicting Jesus Christ in what some observers claim to be a rocket. The icons in the tzar (king) row of the church "Sretenie Gospodne" (1860) were painted by Simeon D. Molerov, a representative of the Bansko Painting School. During his 1894–1896 trip in the region of Macedonia, Bulgarian geographer Vasil Kanchov visited Razlog (then known as Мехомия, Mehomiya) and reported that it numbered 820 households, of which 500 of Eastern Orthodox Bulgarians, 300 of Muslim Bulgarians (Pomaks), 16 of Protestant Bulgarians and 5 of Eastern Orthodox Aromanians, for a total population of around 4,620. According to the same author's 1900 study on the population of Macedonia, Razlog was populated by 4,970 people, of which 3,200 Christian Bulgarians, 1,460 Muslim Bulgarians, 80 Turks, 200 Romani and 30 Aromanians. The town's population actively participated in the Kresna-Razlog and Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, Razlog, which was part of the Sanjak of Siroz in the Salonika Vilayet as "Razlık", itself being liberated from Ottoman rule in 1912.