Star chitak
Star chitak | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Star chitak | |
| Coordinates: 41°40′01″N 25°13′01″E / 41.667°N 25.217°E | |
| Country |  Bulgaria |
| Province | Kardzhali Province |
| Municipality | Ardino |
| Area | |
• Total | 1.505 km2 (0.581 sq mi) |
| Population (2013) | |
• Total | 25 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Star chitak (Bulgarian: Стар читак) is a village in Ardino Municipality, Kardzhali Province, southern-central Bulgaria. It is located 193.057 kilometres (119.960 mi) southeast of Sofia.[1] It covers an area of 1.505 square kilometres and as of 2013 it had a population of 25 people.[1] The Inhabitants once was Çıtak Turks (Čitaci). Evliya Çelebi described the Çıtak Turks (Chitak), in his Seyahatname as "a mixture of various peoples such as Bulgarian-Greek-Tatar-Moldovan" and even gave examples from their language, some of them, went at the 1877-1878 Ottoman-Russian War, Balkan wars 1912-1913 and after the WW1 1914-1915 wars immigrated to Anatolia used to live in Ankara, others to Tekirdağ and Çanakkale provinces.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Star chitak". Guide Bulgaria. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- ^ Gezer, Hanife (29 October 2019). "Peçenek-Oğuz Kökenli̇ Çitak Türkleri̇ni̇n Di̇li̇ Üzeri̇ne". Uluslararası Beşeri Bilimler ve Eğitim Dergisi. 5 (12): 897–919.
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