Star chitak
Village in Kardzhali Province, Bulgaria
41°40′01″N 25°13′01″E / 41.667°N 25.217°E / 41.667; 25.217
Bulgaria (2013)
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
- ^ 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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Ardino MunicipalityCapital: Ardino
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- Bashevo
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- Pesnopoy
- Pravdolyub
- Ribartsi
- Rodopsko
- Rusalsko
- Svetulka
- Sedlartsi
- Sinchets
- Spoluka
- Srunsko
- Star chitak
- Stoyanovo
- Suhovo
- Temenuga
- Turna
- Tarnoslivka
- Yabalkovets
- Zhaltusha
- Angelina Iljeva [bg]
- Faik Ismailov [tr]
- Sabahattin Ali
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