Dimovo

{{Infobox settlement

|official_name = Dimovo

|native_name=Димово|

|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = Bulgaria

|subdivision_type1 = Provinces
(Oblast)

|timezone=EET

|utc_offset=+2

|timezone_DST=EEST

|utc_offset_DST=+3

|image_skyline = Dimovo Panorama.JPG

|image_caption = Panoramic overview of Dimovo

|map_caption = Location of Dimovo|

|pushpin_map =Bulgaria

|pushpin_label_position = right

|pushpin_map_caption = Location of Dimovo

|pushpin_mapsize =

|leader_title = Mayor

|postal_code_type = Postal Code

|subdivision_name1=Vidin

|population_total=1,211

|population_footnotes=|

population_as_of=December 2009

|elevation_m=75

|postal_code=3750

|area_code=09341

|coordinates ={{coord|43|45|N|22|44|E|region:BG|display=inline}}

|leader_name=Lozan Lozanov

}}

Dimovo ({{langx|bg|Димово}} {{IPA|bg|ˈdimovo|}}) is a town in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Vidin Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Dimovo Municipality, which lies in the eastern part of Vidin Province, {{convert|30|km}} from Vidin at the Danube and {{convert|50|km}} from Bregovo at the Timok River and the Serbian border. As of December 2009, Dimovo had a population of 1,211 inhabitants.{{in lang|en}} [http://www.nsi.bg/otrasalen.php?otr=53&a1=1583&a2=1584&a3=1588#cont Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101113165731/http://www.nsi.bg/otrasalen.php?otr=53&a1=1583&a2=1584&a3=1588#cont |date=November 13, 2010}}

The town is located in the western Danubian Plain. Until the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, it was known as Barzitsa (Бързица) in Bulgarian, but it had the Ottoman name Osmaniye. In 1880, it was renamed to Aleksandrovo after the Bulgarian knyaz Alexander I of Battenberg. It was briefly named Vlaykovo in honour of Todor Vlaykov in 1936, but the name was changed back to honour Alexander as Knyaz Aleksandrovo in the same year. Finally, the modern name of Dimovo was established in 1951, after local partisan Zhivko Puev's nickname, Dimo.