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ANTIMOVO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location<\/strong> \u2013 a village in Tutrakan Municipality, located about 15 km southeast of the municipal center Tutrakan and about 50 km southwest of the regional center Silistra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The village has become part of the Bulgarian literary classics through the collection of stories “Evenings at the Antimov Inn” by Y. Yovkov.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Old names<\/strong> \u2013 Kuzgunluk, Kuzgun, Antimova (during the period of Romanian occupation). In 1906 it was renamed Antimovo, in memory of the first Bulgarian exarch Antim I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Population according to censuses over the years:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1870 \u2013 182 people (Residents of Gypsy origin \u2013 Muslims 15 people, residents \u2013 Muhajirs \u2013 37 people, residents of Islamic origin (Turks) \u2013 130 people).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1881 \u2013 451 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1888 \u2013 592 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1893 \u2013 610 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1900 \u2013 718 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1934 \u2013 432 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1946 \u2013 729 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1985 \u2013 106 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2000 \u2013 107 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 \u2013 44 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First data<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During archaeological excavations in 1992, sites were registered in various areas in Tutrakansko, the dating of which generally covers the 2nd millennium BC or the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. Antimovo is present on the Archaeological Map of Bulgaria with: 1. A grave mound, which is located 2.7 km and azimuth 237 \u00b0 relative to the city hall. Diameter about 40 m, height about 2.5 m to the Sheitan Kulak area. The terrain is leveled and planted with annual crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. A settlement located 0.5 km and 125 \u00b0 azimuth from the city hall, in the Chatal Dere area, in a side ravine. A modern microdam is located to the east, and cornfields to the north, south and west of the site. It is likely that part of the site falls into this terrain and then its area would be larger than the registered one (about 5 acres). Dating: prehistoric – the shards are evenly distributed, but with a small concentration. Altitude 105 – 120.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Settlement. It is located 1.350 km and 155 \u00b0 azimuth from the city hall, in the Chatal Dere area (Elbasana). Leveled surface. The site lies immediately east of Chatal Dere, currently occupied by a microdam. The area of \u200b\u200bthe site is about 70 acres. Among the finds, fragments from the Bronze Age and numerous fragments of clay mortar with traces of intertwined sticks and straw predominate. Separate fragments of Roman ceramics, semi-processed bone, ceramic concretions with traces of processing, a flint tool. A connection with site No. 2 is possible. Altitude 110 \u2013 125 m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Settlement. It is located 1 km and 160 \u00b0 azimuth from the city hall, in the Chatal Dere area. Valley slope with southeast exposure. Altitude 100 \u2013 110 m above sea level. Finds: shards from the First Bulgarian Kingdom, including a wall with a polished net-like ornament – pastoral ceramics., individual fragments of prehistoric ceramics, a flint tool. Part of the site lies under the microdam. Area 35 decares. Average concentration and even distribution of the finds. Partial overlap with site No. 2 is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antimovo during the Renaissance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 19th century, the village was mainly inhabited by Circassians. According to historian Encho Yordanov, Kuzgun literally means “the furious ones”. Its settlers, Circassians by nationality, did such evil to the surrounding villages that they were rightly called “the furious ones”. The Circassians are Muslims and go to the mosque, but their character is very different from the local Turkish and Bulgarian population. They are used to a free life and theft. They often encroach on the livestock of the rest of the population, which is why they are not loved by either the Turks or the Bulgarians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The old name of the village of Kuzgune is mentioned as Kozgunluk in a Russian military map from 1828. In 1867, the detachment of Panayot Hitov passed by the village with the standard bearer Vasil Levski, and the scribe of the detachment was Ivan P. Karshovski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 17, 1876, when the steamer “Radetzky” with Botev’s chetniks passed by Oltenitsa, 28 people, Bulgarian chetniks, led by the voivode Tanyo Stoyanov, secretly went to the previously designated place for crossing the river. It was the same place where nine years earlier, in 1867, Panayot Hitov’s detachment crossed, with Vasil Levski as standard bearer. It was located below the village of Bulgarian Kosui (today’s village of Pozharevo) and was convenient for landing on Bulgarian soil, because it was hidden by the willow-covered island of Kosui, located almost to the Bulgarian coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The path of the detachment initially coincided with the path of the Panayothit detachment from 1867, described in detail by the secretary Iv. P. Karshovski. From the hill of Novite mesto, then covered with a centuries-old forest, it passed through the Gabrovnitsa valley and along the hill between Choban Kulak and Kuidulai descended into the Gyaur Punar valley, along which the chetniks went out to the fountain to the present-day Antimovo Hanche campsite, where they crossed the road from Tutrakan to Silistra. Here the two roads diverged. Tanyo’s detachment took the southeastern valley and east of the Circassian village of Kuzgun stopped to rest at dawn on May 17, 1876. The chetnik Petar Ivanov wrote: “We slept near a Circassian village… We continue our way to Kurtorman.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the second detachment of the Bulgarian emigration in Romania, created on the idea of \u200b\u200bHristo Botev, with the aim of supporting the uprising in the Second Sliven Revolutionary District. After three battles, the voivode Tanyo Stoyanov died on Kerchan Bair near the village of Aprilovo. After the death of the voivode, the detachment was defeated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antimovo after the Liberation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the administrative-territorial organization established after the Liberation of Bulgaria, the village of Kuzgun is a constituent village in the Viskoy (Tsarevdol) municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Liberation of Bulgaria, all Circassians were evicted from the village and after the decrees of the Berlin Congress of 1878, compact masses of Bulgarians settled in Tutrakansko. 125 Bulgarian refugees from Edirne and Kavaklia, Lozengrad region settled. Kavaklia people brought their customs and traditions, the most characteristic of which are the square spectacle “Kukerski Tsar”, originating from the ancient Dionysian mysteries, with 13 actors, divided into 7 groups, played on Cheese Lent for fertility and the magnificent carols about Tsar Kostadin and the old Starnenik, with his 9 working sons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1887, a primary school with two classrooms was opened in the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On April 27, 1889, 27 Christians sent a letter to the Metropolis in Ruse. It read: \u201cThere are 50-60 Christian houses in the village and we built a school building, which was started and completed in 1887. From it, we separated a room that will serve us temporarily as a church and is arranged and equipped with all the necessities like the same church\u2026 To allow the Liturgy to be served with a consecrated Antimins in the aforementioned room temporarily until the construction of another church.\u201d The hierarchal vicar in the town of Tutrakan, Ignatiy Chernev, and two priests laid St. Antimins with holy relics on June 4, 1889. The chapel was finally completed in 1891.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 1900, the Macedonian-Odrijan Society was founded in the village of Kuzgun, with the teacher Konstantin Simeonov as its chairman. He organized charity events to collect aid in kind from the village of Antimovo and the surrounding villages for the cause of the liberation of Macedonia and the Odrijan region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people of Kuzgun were oppressed by the heavy tithe tax and by usurers, and on February 14, 1905, they founded their own Agricultural Savings and Loan Fund “Syrp” with the aim of helping farmers from the robbery of usurers. It existed until 1912. There was also a cooperative store attached to the fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1908, the “Videlina” community center was founded, which was closed during the period of the Romanian occupation and resumed its activities after the return of Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria in 1940.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1906, the village of Kuzgun was renamed Antimovo, at the suggestion of Konstantin Petkanov, a long-time teacher in the village, originally from the village of Kavaklii, Lozengrad region. His motive was that the first Bulgarian exarch Antim I was from Lozengrad, the region from which the current residents of Antimovo also moved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the signing of the Bucharest Peace Treaty of 1913, the village passed into the borders of the Kingdom of Romania. A regime of assimilation of the local population began, speaking Bulgarian was forbidden, the Bulgarian school was closed, and religious services were held in Romanian in the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the annexation of Southern Dobrudja to Romania, the Romanian Army Headquarters decided to strengthen the defense of the new southern border. It was planned to build Tutrakan and Silistra as offensive bridgehead fortresses. With the approval of this project, the Ministry of War, by secret order No. 24 of July 10, 1914 (July 23) to the Chief Inspectorate of Fortified Places, ordered the construction of a bridgehead fortress in Tutrakan, outlining the main line of fortification and the overall plan for the construction of the fortress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For two years, according to a project by French and Belgian specialists, the Romanians built the Tutrakan fortified camp. The fortress consisted of two fortification lines. On the main defensive line, located on the periphery of the Tutrakan plateau, 15 forts were built in a semicircle around the city and the villages of Staro Selo, Daydar (present-day village of Shumentsi), Antimovo, Bulgarian Kosuy (present-day village of Pozharevo). The local population provided unpaid labor for the construction of the military field facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August 1916, Romanian government circles decided to kidnap the most intelligent and wealthiest residents of Dobrudja to the north and ruin their farms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On August 15, 1916, the arrests and kidnappings of previously targeted people began. Thousands of men, women, children and the elderly were forcibly removed from their homes. Thousands of Bulgarians fell victim to terror, the inhabitants of entire villages were massacred, and in a number of settlements there were mass rapes of women. 34 people were kidnapped and interned from the village of Antimovo and sent to labor camps in Moldova. Subjected to harsh physical living conditions, 10 of them did not return to their homes. On September 1, 1916, Bulgaria declared war on its “treacherous neighbor” Romania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The units of the 3rd Bulgarian Army, on September 1st to 2nd, 1916, crossed the Dobrudja border from the Danube to the Black Sea. Early in the morning of September 2 at 01.20, General Pantelei Kiselov ordered the 1st Infantry Brigade of the division, under the command of Colonel Kmetov, to seize Meshe Mahle (now deleted) and Denizler (now the village of Varnentsi) and to fortify north of the village – 2 km north of Belitsa, with the brigade’s section being from the Belitsa – Antimovo road to the Kara Mehmedler (now the village of Brenitsa) – Dayder (now the village of Shumentsi), and to pay attention to the right flank of the brigade and the connection with the 1st Sofia Division, and the 3rd Brigade of the division, under the command of Colonel Ikonomov, to seize the positions north of Meshe Mahle and the brigade to pay special attention to the left flank and to maintain close contact with von Kaufmann’s detachment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

26 escaped residents of the villages of Antimovo and Belitsa provided information to the Bulgarian army about the organization and armament of the Tutrakan fortress on September 2, 1916. They say that the village of Antimovo is surrounded by full-length trenches, which were dug in the summer and are now being cleaned, and between the trenches there are communication tunnels, 2 meters deep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 3rd Army’s advance in these first days of crossing the border was also facilitated by the incompetent actions of the Romanian command. Col. Marinescu requested assistance from the 3rd sector, north of Antimovo, which was not attacked at all by the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The brigade of the 1st Sofia Division at 11.30 reached the line west of the village of Antimovo and was stopped by heavy artillery and infantry fire. This forced the accompanying artillery to open accurate fire on fort No. 8. The fire of the 2nd artillery division of Major Stoyanovich was particularly effective. The enemy began to leave the trenches. At the same time, the 7th Regiment made a breakthrough in the main defense line and together with the 1st and 6th Regiments at 13.30 captured fort No. 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During its retreat to Tutrakan, the Romanian army set Antimovo on fire. At 3:30 p.m. on September 6, a proposal for surrender written in German was sent to the three sectors of the attacking troops: \u201c I surrender unconditionally, together with my officers, soldiers and ammunition \u2013 Colonel Marashescu<\/em> \u201d. At Tutrakan on September 5-6, 1916, the Bulgarian army defeated large Romanian military forces and launched the liberation mission in Dobrudzha. This event amazed Europe and inspired several generations of compatriots, who appropriately immortalized and recalled the Bulgarian genius for defending a just cause. After this triumph, the Bulgarians lived freely, but in the autumn of 1918, the Second National Catastrophe occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Entente-Romanian occupation of Dobrudja \u2013 October 1918 \u2013 November 1919 \u2013 the main goal of the resistance was to prevent the re-annexation of the region by Romania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 1, 1919, the villages around Tutrakan did not allow the Romanian administration in. On January 8, 4,000 people from the town and the villages of Denizler, Antimovo, Belitsa, Spanchov and Deider went to Tutrakan and handed the English commandant a “Resolution” in which they protested against the closure of the Bulgarian schools, community centers and church in the town by the Romanians and demanded the restoration of the local administration elected by the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 29 of the same year, the resident of Antimovo, Dimitar Temelkov Kovachev, was beaten most mercilessly by the Romanian authorities. The terror of the Romanian authorities continued in February, when correspondence was maintained between the police authorities in Tutrakan and the prefect in Silistra and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the leadership of the Kingdom’s Security testified that at the beginning of the year in this Danube town and the district there was mass opposition among the Bulgarians against the re-occupation of Southern Dobrudzha. Active fighters against the regime from the village of Antimovo were also declared wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter in the Dobrudzha newspaper from April 19, 1919 describes the following case: “the head of the village of Antimovo gathered the men and threatened them not to come to the village until dawn; they ran away, and the women gathered in groups in one house to spend the night. During the night, the gendarmes, together with Romanian civilians who came across the Danube, robbed a dozen houses.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around July 20, 1919, Bulgarian bands pursued supporters of the Romanian regime in Antimovo, Viscoi, Shumentsi, Senovo and Nova Cherna, damaging the harvest, then fleeing across the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A month later, the newspaper “Dobrudzhanski Glas” found that if there were 120 Bulgarian families in Antimovo in December 1918, then in the summer of 1919 they all fled to Bulgaria. In the depopulated Antimovo, the Romanian authorities settled Romanian colonists and Turks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 27, 1919, the Treaty of Neuilly was signed between Bulgaria and the Entente, ending our country’s participation in World War I. According to its clauses, Bulgaria ceded Southern Dobrudja to Romania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter from the newspaper “Dobrudzhansko Zname” from June 1, 1921 describes the situation of the Bulgarians in Antimovo: “Last year, the Wallachian administration, together with the robber gangs that were attached to it, committed unheard-of atrocities against the defenseless residents of the village of Antimovo and many other villages in the Tutrakan region. Many houses were then abandoned and many families went bankrupt.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1920, Vlachs from the village of Kirnoj, located on the left bank of the Danube River, near Oltenitsa, were settled there, and in 1929, Tsintsari from Thessaloniki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antimovo is the birthplace of the folk singer Atanas Tsenev Stoilov, who in the 1930s sang at fairs about enslaved Dobrudja and its misfortunes at the hands of the Tsintsari.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 7, 1940, the Treaty of Craiova was signed, by virtue of which Southern Dobrudja was returned to Bulgaria. An exchange of equal numbers of Romanian colonists from Southern and Bulgarians from Northern Dobrudja was envisaged. This exchange was to be carried out within three months. On September 21, the Dobrudja population enthusiastically welcomed the Bulgarian army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The resettled Bulgarians from Northern Dobrudja, from the village of Saragyol, Tulchansko were settled in the abandoned and broken-down colonial dwellings. In the 1970s, some of the Northern Dobrudja residents who had been settled in 1940 emigrated to Balchik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the old residents of the village who left their homes during the Romanian occupation are returning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prefabricated houses of the colonists from the resettled Northern Dobrudja Bulgarians in Tutrakansko in 1940 were made primarily of adobe and covered with tiles. These houses are called, according to their previous inhabitants, colonist or mukan houses and were built around the 1920s. The colonist neighborhood in Antimovo was also like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1940, a branch of the All-Bulgarian Union “Father Paisii” was founded in the village with Dimitar Petkanov as chairman. The Union is a Bulgarian cultural, educational and nationalist organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antimovo after September 9, 1944<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The village was electrified in 1951 and supplied with water in 1968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 1, 1945, the Consumer Cooperative “Izgrev” began its activities. The main reason for its establishment was to eliminate private traders, other speculators who existed at that time, and the cooperative served as a regulator of the prices of goods and agricultural products. The role of the cooperative was to support the poor population by crediting them with loans. The main activity of the cooperative was retail trade, public catering, buying up all agricultural products, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 1954, the Consumer Cooperative “Izgrev” Antimovo merged with the Consumer Cooperative “Pobeda” Tsarev Dol village, transferring all assets and liabilities. The reason for the merger was that there should be one commercial organization on the territory of a village municipal council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By decision of the RKS – Tutrakan in 1955, the Antimovo cooperative was transferred to it, and in 1976, the assets and liabilities of the Food and Flavoring Plant “Nov Zhivot” – Tutrakan were merged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the socialist period, the Antimovo residents were engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. A sheep farm and a crab farm were built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the period 1976 – 1979, Antimovo was a constituent village of the municipal center of Tarnovtsi, together with Tsarev Dol and Chernogor. Since 1979, it has been a mayoralty of the Tutrakan Municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two dams have been built near the village. In 1955, the 25.5-acre micro-dam “Antimovo” was built. Its waters are used for fishing and irrigation of agricultural lands. The local population calls it the “Small Dam”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near the Antimovsko Hanche area, in 1988 the largest dam in terms of area was put into operation, called “Antimovo”. Its water area is about 1000 decares. The height of the dam wall is 32 m, and the length is 445 m. Filled with water directly from the Danube River, which determines its rich fish fauna. Preferred due to the comfortable banks and the lack of high vegetation. Offers opportunities for fishing tourism, recreation and rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the important places near the village is the fountain of “Antimovski Han”, which was built in 1872 and is located in the Camping area. In 1962, the fountain was renovated and is still in operation. The detachments of Panayot Hitov, with standard-bearer Vasil Levski – 1867, and the detachment of Tanyo Voivoda – 1876 passed through this area. A commemorative plaque is placed on the wall of the fountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Church<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The modern chapel “St. Ascension of the Lord” was built in 1920. It was consecrated in 1924. It is a massive single-nave basilica. According to a 1943 report, the chapel is an adapted building by Dimitar Kaloyanov Shangov. St. Antimins was laid in 1941. The bell tower is separate from the temple. Its foundation is built of bricks for the chancery (baptismal), and the upper part is a wooden structure with a roof covered with single-aisle tiles. The iconostasis is paneled. The author of some of the icons, painted in 1888, is Georgi N. Zograf from the town of Tryavna. The building was electrified in 1951. In 1982, the single-aisle tiles on the roof were replaced with tiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chapel was declared an architectural monument of culture in 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

School<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The school was opened in 1887, it was built according to the requirements of the school law, one of the rooms was designated as a chapel. Until 1895, education was carried out in four merged classes by one teacher. The first teacher was Atanas Raychev from Tutrakan. He taught for two years, after which he was transferred to the village of Viskoy. After that, they found Konstantin Petkanov, who had just graduated from the 8th grade school, who served as a singer in the chapel. He taught until 1904. Nevena Popova, Nikola Dimitrov, Simeon Petkanov, Milka Kasabova also taught here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By order of the District School Inspector, the school room was cleared of church utensils in 1909.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Liberation of Dobrudja from Romanian occupation in 1940\/41, Alexander Georgiev and Pena Subotic taught. Until 1944, Zhivka Rasheva, Ivan Peychev, and others taught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A junior high school with separate classes was opened at the Major K. Kodzhov Public Primary School in 1945. The first principal of the school was Ivan Boychev from Pavlikeni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The teachers diversified the lives of the population by hosting parties, entertainment, theaters, and other initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1964, the junior high school was closed due to a decrease in the number of students and one teacher remained in the school, leading four merged classes. The Major K. Kodzhov National Primary School – Antimovo village operated until 1969, when it was closed due to a decrease in the number of children in the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TCZS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 6, 1949, the Labor Cooperative Agricultural Farm “Angel Kanchev” was founded by 33 farmers. The first chairman of the farm was Kosta Apostolov Shthurkov. Stoyan Stoyanov, Dimitar Petkanov, Stoil Penkov, Alexander Stankov and Kosta Shthurkov were elected members of the Management Board. In June of the same year, the number of farmers increased to 94. The first year, the farm had only one branch – crop production. After a year and a half, in September 1950, all medium-sized farmers entered the TKZS en masse, bringing in land, equipment and animals. With the entry of the farmers, a new department was formed – animal husbandry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 1950 to 1953, the management of the farm managed to organize the construction of barns for animals and grain warehouses. By 1955, the farm was economically strengthened, it already had rich funds, and distributed a large remuneration per day of work to the cooperators. By 1958, the farm was growing, the households numbered about 200. Only 2 families remained in the village without members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sheep farm and a cow farm were built at the TKZS. In 1959, the labor-cooperative agricultural holdings were united. TKZS-Tutrakan became the center of the United Labor-Cooperative Agricultural Holding with the following holdings – the village of Pozharevo, the village of Dunavets, the village of Antimovo, the village of Tsarev Dol and the village of Tarnovtsi. In 1970, the municipal holdings were united into an agro-industrial complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1976, the small agro-industrial complexes were liquidated and the Drastar District Agro-industrial Complex was established. In 1984, agro-industrial complexes were established in municipalities. In 1988, the Agro-industrial Complex was transformed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1989, the labor cooperative farms were re-registered in court, and in accordance with the Law on the Ownership and Use of Agricultural Lands, they were declared in liquidation in 1992. Today, the agricultural lands of the village of Antimovo are cultivated by private farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prominent personalities born or associated their lives with the village of Antimovo:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atanas Tsvyatkov Stoilov (1890 \u2013 1965) \u2013 a folk singer, known throughout Northeastern Bulgaria. His family were emigrants from Lozengrad region, who settled in the village of Antimovo. His repertoire includes famous traditional songs, passed down from generation to generation in the villages, folk songs with a narrative character, urban and author’s songs about the last wars, especially about the Liberation, the Serbo-Bulgarian War, the Balkan and the European Wars. Some of the titles of Atanas Stoilov’s songs are: “The Capture of Tutrakan by the Fourth Preslav Brave Division on September 5, 6 and 7, 1916”, “A Young Bride Becomes a Widow”, “How a Bachelor Marries a Good Marga Bayraktar (an old folk song)”, “Sick Damyancho Sinful”, “The Terrible Murder of Ignat Kalchev from Balbunar on July 28, 1926”, “An old folk Turkish song” (the language of the song contains about 30% Gagauz words), “Merry Company”, “Unforgettable Love”, “Song for the Innocents Slaughtered in Dobrich in 1916”, “Song for the Expelled Dobruch People”, “How a Woman Killed Her Husband”, “From the War”, “Song for an Old Village and the Incident of 1926” and others. Many of the songs tell about real historical events that happened in the villages of Antimovo, Belitsa and Staro Selo. The lyrics play a leading role in these songs. The song “The Capture of Tutrakan by the Fourth Preslav Brave Division on September 5, 6 and 7, 1916” provides information about the event, the number of killed, captured, guns and details about the relationship between the warring parties, the strength and heroic feat of ordinary Bulgarians, and their commanders. A professional assessment of his songs is that they are unmetered songs in free form, without meter and rhythm in recitative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Library “St. St. Cyril and Methodius” preserves 5 hymnals by Atanas Stoilov, his songs are also published in Boris Iliev’s three-volume collection “Songs of Transdanubian Dobrudzha”. Many of the songs in this collection are under a different name because they were reproduced and recorded by another person, thus the authorship has been lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He died in Razgrad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Konstantin Simeonov Petkanov<\/strong> \u2013 teacher and activist of the Dobrudja liberation movement He was born on May 15, 1868 in the village of Kavaklii, Lozengrad region. He graduated from the three-grade school in Edirne. In 1879, he moved to the village of Kuzgun with his relatives. There he started a family, had 7 children \u2013 2 daughters and 5 sons. From 1890, for 22 years, he worked as a volunteer teacher in the village of Antimovo. In addition to his pedagogical career, he was also actively involved in the public life of the village and the district. At the end of 1900, he founded the Macedonian-Edirne Society in the village of Antimovo. As its chairman, he organized successful charity events to collect aid in kind from the village of Antimovo and the surrounding villages, for the cause of the liberation of Macedonia and Edirne. With the same enthusiasm, K. Simeonov also responded to the appeal of the Tutrakan Red Cross Society to maintain the hospital sent to the battlefield by the Bulgarian people in the Far East during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. Thanks to him, a commission went around the village and collected food and a significant amount of money, which was deposited in the society’s treasury. In defense of the interests of the peasants, who were ruthlessly exploited by the moneylenders, the teacher K. Simeonov founded on February 14, 1905, the Agricultural Savings and Loan Fund “Syrp”, which existed until 1912, and there was also a cooperative store at the fund. He was among the founders of the “Videlina” community center in the village, and also organized an evening school for the illiterate and semi-illiterate in Antimovo. During the Balkan and Inter-Allied Wars (1912-1913) Konstantin Simeonov was mobilized. He participated in the battles at Lozengrad, Bunar Hissar and Chataldzha, and then on the front with Serbia. He was awarded the Cross for Bravery IV degree. After returning to the village of Antimovo, in June 1913, he found Southern Dobrudzha occupied by the Romanians. Because of his display of patriotism, he was expelled from there and was forced to emigrate to Bulgaria. From that moment on, K. Petkanov directed all his energy to the liberation of Dobrudzha. He settled in the village of Tsar Samuil, where he taught from 1914 to 1916.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the village of Tsar Samuil, he organized and led an illegal channel for transmitting information from Tutrakan and the surrounding villages to the border Bulgarian military authorities. During the First World War and the Battle of Tutrakan in 1916, information about the Romanian fortifications around Tutrakan was transmitted to the Bulgarian army through this channel from the local population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the liberation of Southern Dobrudja in September 1916, he returned to Antimovo and taught there again until 1919. During the second Romanian occupation, he was expelled from the village again, and his property was confiscated, and he emigrated to Bulgaria. He settled in Zavet, where he was a teacher from 1919 to 1921. There he again created a channel for information from Tutrakan and the surrounding villages, which he sent to the editorial office of the newspaper “Dobrudja”. Then he moved to the village of Brushlen, where he taught for 7 years. Here, too, he organized the Dobrudja emigration and built an illegal channel for information from occupied Dobrudja and supported the Dobrudja liberation movement. He maintained constant contact with Asparuh Aydemirski and Angel Stoyanov. Konstantin Simeonov wrote a chronicle of the village of Kuzgun, which is a valuable source for the history of the village and the region. He died on April 16, 1956.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources<\/em> : DA \u2013 Silistra, f. 58, op. 14, a.e. 4; f. 44; DA \u2013 Ruse, f. 43 k, op. 1, a.e. 61; V. Dobrudzhanski glas, no. 7 of September 2, 1919; Documents for the history of Tutrakan. Vol. 1. Tutrakan, 2009; History of Tutrakan. Vol. 2. 2010, p. 89; Napredak, No. 3, January 5, 1941; No. 8, March 1, 1941; No. 9, March 12, 1941; DA \u2013 Silistra, f. 58, op. 9, a.e. 7; op. 10, a.e. 4; f. 442, op. 7, a.e. 62, a.e. 72, a.e. 79; School Review, Vol. XI, vol. 3 and 4, March and April 1906; Tutrakan Settlement System, Handbook, Bulgarreklama Publishing House, Sofia, 1987; Iliev, B. From Pozharevo, Tutrakan Region to Aprilovo, Popovsko Region. On the Path of the Troop of Tanyo Voivode from 1876. S. 1996; Iliev, B. Native Ludogorie. Almanac. Sofia, 2008; Mutafov, Vl. History of Temples in the Ruse District. Part Two. S. 2014; Popov, Zh., Petar Boychev. Chronicle – Chronology of Facts and Events (1913 – 1940). Kovachev Publishing House. Tutrakan. 2015; Yordanov, E. From the Past of Tutrakan – Events and Personalities. Kovachev Publishing House. 2019; History of Tutrakan. T. 2010; Encyclopedia Tutrakan, T., 2023; Ethnography of Tutrakan, ed. Gutenberg, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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