Chitakovtsi
Chitakovtsi | |
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Village | |
  Chitakovtsi | |
| Coordinates: 42°56′N 25°18′E / 42.933°N 25.300°E | |
| Country |  Bulgaria |
| Province | Gabrovo Province |
| Municipality | Gabrovo |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Chitakovtsi is a village in Gabrovo Municipality, in Gabrovo Province, in northern central Bulgaria.[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]- ^ Guide Bulgaria, Accessed May 24, 2010
- ^ 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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