Coordinates: 42°56′N 25°18′E / 42.933°N 25.300°E / 42.933; 25.300

Chitakovtsi

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Chitakovtsi
Village
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CountryFile:Flag of Bulgaria.svg 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.[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]


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  1. ^ Guide Bulgaria, Accessed May 24, 2010
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