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Village in Gabrovo Province, Bulgaria
Chitakovtsi
Village
Chitakovtsi is located in BulgariaChitakovtsiChitakovtsi
Coordinates: 42°56′N 25°18′E / 42.933°N 25.300°E / 42.933; 25.300
Country Bulgaria
ProvinceGabrovo Province
MunicipalityGabrovo
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Chitakovtsi is a village in Gabrovo Municipality, in Gabrovo Province, in northern central Bulgaria. 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.


References

  1. Guide Bulgaria, Accessed May 24, 2010
  2. Gezer, Hanife (29 October 2019). "Peçenek-Oğuz Kökenli̇ Çitak Türkleri̇ni̇n Di̇li̇ Üzeri̇ne". Uluslararası Beşeri Bilimler Ve Eğitim Dergisi. 5 (12): 897–919.
Bulgaria Gabrovo Municipality
Capital: Gabrovo
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