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Nova Cherna<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location<\/strong> \u2013 the village is located 40 km east of Ruse, towards Silistra, 15 km northeast of the municipal center, the town of Tutrakan. It lies on road 21 of the republican road network. Located 4 km north of the village, the Danube River flows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Old names<\/strong> \u2013 Smil and Jedit, Ismil Muslim, Turk Smil, renamed in 1942.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

1888 \u2013 1494 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1893 \u2013 1680 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1900 \u2013 2039 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1905 \u2013 2202 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1910 \u2013 2390 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1934 \u2013 1357 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1941 \u2013 1360 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1946 \u2013 1728 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1985 \u2013 2426 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2000 \u2013 2083 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 \u2013 1204 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The ancient, late antique and medieval fortress Mediolana is located 1.35 km northwest in a straight line from the center of the village of Nova Cherna. Initially, a fortification with a square plan with sides of 35×35 m was erected on the site. It was built at the end of the 3rd century or the beginning of the 4th century. There are four square towers at the corners and one rectangular one in the middle of the southern fortress wall. This is probably a gate tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In late antiquity, in the middle of the 6th century, reality clearly required a larger and stronger fortress. Then a fortress was built, correctly oriented to the cardinal directions, with an almost square plan measuring 90\u00d785-90 m. Part of the material for it was taken from the small Roman fortification. The new fortress has four towers at the corners and two in the middle of the eastern and western walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mediolana is built with mortar mixed with pieces of bricks, the site is part of the Lower Danube fortification system. The development of the fortress is connected to that of Transmariska, from which it is 15 km away. In the western direction, the fortress connects with Apiaria (near Ryahovo) 20 km away. In translation, the name of Mediolana means: I divide the middle. Indeed, the site lies in the middle of the ancient road between Transmariska and Apiaria. During the Middle Ages, an earthen fortification was built here – part of the medieval, earthen, defensive facility Maldan. Currently, only the central sector of the earthen camp has been preserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traces of the presence of a Slavic population have been discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The earthen fortification is dated by archaeologists immediately after the destruction of Mediolanum, i.e. 7th century. Indeed, the earthen rampart of the eastern line lies directly on the remains of the eastern wall of the fortress, but underneath it the cultural layer of the late antique settlement remains entirely. The earthen fortification appeared after the abandonment of the settlement and on its remains most likely in the 8th \u2013 9th century. The northern and southern parts of the earthen fortification were destroyed by agricultural activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The earliest information about the existence of the current settlement dates back to 1526.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to historian Encho Yordanov, the ethnonym Turkmen served as the basis for the old names of the village of Nova Cherna and the village of Kosara – Turk Smil and Turk Kosuy, which suggests that their first settlers were Turkmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nova Cherna after Liberation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the War of Liberation and shortly after it, many Bulgarian Balkanists from the regions of Elena, Tarnovo, Gabrovo and Troyan, as well as from Razgrad, settled in the town of Tutrakan and the villages, including T\u00fcrk Smil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The local population’s main livelihood is agriculture, livestock breeding and fishing, which are practiced by about thirty families in the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rural municipal government \u2013 \u200b\u200bthe village of T\u00fcrk Smil was established immediately after the Liberation of Bulgaria from Turkish slavery. It includes the villages of T\u00fcrk Smil and Senovo (Syanovo). The Municipal Council takes care of the public welfare of the municipality. It is an elected body, elected by the population for a certain period of time, it elects the mayor and assistant mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the administrative-territorial organization of Bulgaria in 1901, the settlement was the municipality of T\u00fcrk Smil with a constituent village of G\u00fcvedje (Zvanartsi).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The achievements and successes of the craftsmen from the Tutrakan region are also evidenced by their presentation at the First Plovdiv Exhibition in 1892. In the protocols of the first exhibition, Tatar Mustafa from the village of T\u00fcrk Smil appears as the winner of a silver medal for craftsmanship in wooden products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On December 15, 1906, an agricultural society was established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1913, after the Bucharest Peace Treaty, Southern Dobrudja passed into the borders of the Kingdom of Romania. The state border was near the village and the new government made maximum efforts to protect the border with Bulgaria. It imposed strict control over those crossing it. A checkpoint was designated at Nova Cherna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The border between Bulgaria and Romania was moved behind the village of Nova Cherna, 15 kilometers west of Staro Selo. A stream of Bulgarians fled from Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria. Young people subject to military service in the Romanian army also emigrated. There are reports of such cases from eight villages in the Tutrakan district, including young people from Nova Cherna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the arrival of the administration in 1913, the Romanian government began to settle colonists in Dobrudzha, in order to strengthen Romanian assimilation. The Tutrakan district, located near the border, was strongly affected by the colonization policy of the Romanian state. According to Romanian data, intensive colonization was carried out in the village of Nova Cherna. 600 people, Romanian colonists, were settled. It was forbidden to speak Bulgarian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the end of July to the first days of September 1916, in preparation for war against Bulgaria, the Romanian government intensively built military fortifications along the entire border – especially in Tutrakan. Hundreds of Bulgarian men were sent to work on the construction sites along with their cars and livestock. On September 5 and 6, 1916, the epic Battle of Tutrakan took place, in which the Bulgarian army was victorious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On August 15, 1916, the Romanian government prepared lists of unreliable Bulgarians and Turks in Dobrudja, whose arrests and internment in the interior of Romania began soon after. From June 27 to November 14, 1917, the newspaper “Dobrudja” published in Babadag searched for, compiled and published a detailed list of names of the kidnapped Dobrudja people, distributed under the name Martyrology of the Dobrudja Princes. These lists preserved the names of 36 people kidnapped from Nova Cherna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bulgaria was defeated in World War I and on November 27, 1919, the Treaty of Neuilly was signed between Bulgaria and the Entente countries, which ended Bulgaria’s participation in World War I and left all of Dobrudja under Romanian rule again. In place of the Bulgarians who had emigrated to the interior of the country and the Turkish families who had emigrated, the Romanian government settled over 200 families of war veterans, for whom an entire neighborhood of identical houses was built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to the cross-border nature of the \u201ccommittee\u201d and banditry activities, as well as the illegal emigration of refugees across the Romanian-Bulgarian land border, it remained a nerve center throughout the period between the two world wars. According to the findings of the Romanian Siguranza, the police and the border service, made at the end of the Romanian rule, it was in the area near Tutracan that the largest number of illegal border crossings in both directions were registered. The main point of illegal emigration and the influx of \u201chostile to the Romanian regime\u201d elements is the area around the village of Nova Cerna, where the situation is presented as \u201cunstoppable\u201d and \u201cactually uncontrollable\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to free themselves from the simulation and terror carried out by the Romanian authorities, the Turkish population of Dobrudja emigrated en masse, which changed the ethnic demographic appearance of Dobrudja and the village. By the beginning of 1933, about 300 Muslim families from the border municipalities of Nova Cherna and Terter expressed a desire to emigrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were provided with housing and food for 7-8 months by the Turkish government to settle them along the border near the Caucasus Mountains. They had a hard time coming to terms with the confiscation of 1\/3 of their arable land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 7, 1940, a treaty was signed in the Romanian city of Craiova, which obliged Romania to return Southern Dobrudja to the borders of the Kingdom of Bulgaria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A drama unfolded on the border, at the border post on the slope itself in the southwestern part above the settlement area, claiming the lives of two Bulgarian border guards, who during the day shared with their Romanian colleagues that they were negotiating and agreements had been reached for Southern Dobrudja to be returned to Bulgaria. Enraged, the Romanian soldiers organized a bloody and cruel vendetta at night, surrounded the post and killed the unsuspecting Bulgarian potters, and relations between them and the Romanian border guards were good when they visited the gatherings in the village of Tsar Samuil together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the agreements of the Treaty of Craiova, the occupation of the first zone took place on September 21, 1940. A Bulgarian military unit, based in the city of Ruse, formed by a guards cavalry regiment with one horse artillery battery and one portable infantry company, led by the Minister of War, Gen. Teodosi Daskalov, moved from Ruse and arrived at the border line at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the border post near the village of T\u00fcrk Smil, the delegates were given military honors. They headed to the Romanian border post, where they were met by the Romanian delegation and introduced themselves to each other. While the procedure continued at the border, thousands of people gathered in groups from the Bulgarian side. When the delegates set off for Tutrakan, a stormy \u201churray\u201d echoed along the border. On the other side of the border, it was deserted and silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Romanian representative, Gen. Zamfirescu, also arrived here. In the presence of many villagers from Nova Cherna and Staro Selo, who had come with dozens of carts, the symbolic handover \u2013 acceptance of the territory \u2013 took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The terms of the agreement required the Kingdom of Romania<\/a> to return to the Kingdom of Bulgaria<\/a> the territory of Southern Dobrudja<\/a> (“Cadrilater”, Romanian<\/a> ) with an area of \u200b\u200b7,565 km\u00b2, and also to carry out a population exchange between Northern Dobrudja<\/a> and Southern Dobrudja<\/a> . Over 1,700 people from the village of Cherna arrived in the village, and therefore in 1942 the village was renamed Nova Cherna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turk-Smilsky Fair<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An important center of domestic and foreign trade is the famous annual Smilski (T\u00fcrk-Smilski) fair in the village of T\u00fcrk Smil, which is the most significant large annual market in the western part of Southern Dobrudzha, even before the Liberation. The favorable geographical location of the village, located 14 km west of the district center and located between two important Danube ports, Ruse and Tutrakan, is a factor in its emergence and establishment. After the Liberation, the fair is one of the largest centers for the sale of cattle and small cattle, other farm animals and especially horses, which are also purchased for the needs of the Bulgarian army. The fair is organized in May and lasts 3 – 5 – 7 days. In addition to domestic animals, it offers grocery, colonial, Brasov, manufactured, haberdashery, handicrafts and other goods, supplied by merchants from the nearby cities of Ruse, Silistra, Varna, Shumen and Razgrad and sought after by the surrounding population. Livestock is brought from Central and Eastern Bulgaria, especially from the Tarnovo, Sevlievo, Lovech and Pleven regions. Buyers and sellers of cattle from almost all of Bulgaria flock to the fair. Large traders also come from Turkey and Romania, who buy a lot of cattle and thus raise its price. According to data for 1905, more than 400 cattle, horses and other animals were exported to both countries. The fair area is located on a large meadow in the western edge of the village, on which there are 10 geraniums and a permanent administrative building. For the days of the fair, \u201can entire city of shacks, full of various goods, which are sold at high prices\u201d. Places were set aside to accommodate more than 1,000 carts of participants and visitors to the fair. The latter were numerous and were driven by various motives, some of which were illegal, because, according to the testimonies of the Tutrakan press of the time, while “some were earning, others were stealing, and still others were drinking and eating.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first decade of the twentieth century, the fair continued its successful development, although the number of traded livestock decreased, the value of sales increased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the village of Turk Smil,\u201d writes the Ruse newspaper \u201cFebruary 28\u201d from May 22, 1911, \u201cevery year a fair is held, to which buyers and sellers of cattle flock from almost all of Bulgaria. Large traders from Turkey come in particular, who buy a lot of cattle and raise the price of cattle. This year there have been especially many sales. There have also been sales of quite a few manufactured goods, purchased by the surrounding rural population.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the ten-year period from 1902 to 1912, the turnover of the Smil Fair increased almost threefold, and the total value of the livestock sold from 275,660 leva reached 621,942 leva. The increased demand for livestock from the local population, for some of whom cattle breeding is one of the main livelihoods, and from foreign traders, led to a serious increase in prices. This is evident from the number of livestock sold of 4,397 units (including 1,024 horses) in 1902, while in 1912 its number was 3,212 (including 1,526 horses). Of course, the improvement of the breeds of individual types of farm animals must also be taken into account here, which also led to their increase in price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The administrators appreciated the role of this commercial and social event for the entire Ruse district with an important share in revitalizing the internal and external trade in the region and in 1896 the first agricultural and livestock competition was organized for the district. Its organizers were the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ruse District Commission, and its goal was to strengthen the motivation of farmers raising good breeds of animals and to give impetus to livestock breeding in the region. The organization of such competitions continued in the following years. Many took part in them and received awards in the presence of the Ruse district governor, members of parliament and other officials. Along with its commercial functions, the fair also had social significance, as a place for communication, meetings, cultural and sports entertainment and recreation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Since<\/strong> September 9, 1944, it has been a municipality with the constituent villages of Syanovo and Tsar Samuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The village has a complex brigade for grain production, a grain-forage brigade and a mixed brigade, a sheep farm and a cow farm, a tele-fattening farm, a pig complex and a fish farm. In 1954, a point for artificial insemination of animals was opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The administrative building of the town hall was built in 1963, the building of the nursery in 1964. In the 50s – 60s and the beginning of the 70s of the twentieth century, new modern buildings were built for the needs of the management institutions. The main streets were asphalted. The DZS – Nova Cherna was founded. The leader of this grandiose modern construction was Hristo Petkov Hristov – mayor of the village (1959-1970).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A rural health post was opened in 1954 to provide rapid and specialized medical care to the population. In 1959, a medical doctor was admitted for the first time. There are no hospital beds in the health post, there is a room – a maternity hospital. It was closed in 1969.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1975 An Automatic Telephone Exchange was opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the population is employed in industrial production – in the village there are workshops of the Kamashit Economic Combine, the Dobrudzhanka Labor and Production Cooperative, and the Spare Parts and Tobacco Dryers Plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1990s, they ceased to exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1984, the company “Fish Farming” began its activities as part of the “Freshwater Fish Farming” Joint Stock Company – Plovdiv. It breeds freshwater fish (carp, silver carp and grass carp) and produces stocking material. In 1991, it was registered as the “Kalimok” Joint Stock Company, and in 1992 it became an EOOD for the production of caviar, stocking material, fish for consumption, sterile and non-sterile canned fish, vegetables and meat, trade and intermediary activities. By Decision No. 72 of April 22, 1994, the SOS declared the company bankrupt and in 1998 it was closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          In recent years, many families, driven by unemployment, have migrated to large cities, mainly to Ruse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Until 1937, the village did not have an Orthodox church. The Church of St. Cyril and Methodius was built by the Romanians in the period 1935-1937. The building is a massive single-domed basilica in the Romanian style with dimensions of 18 m in length and 6 m in width, which was completed in rough construction when the border was moved in 1940. In 1940, with the withdrawal of the Romanian authority and administration, the Romanian priest took away all the registers, the entire archive and books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The church building was completed in 1968. The bell is hung on a metal bell tower, located west of the temple. The iconostasis is made of panels. After 1971, modern icons donated by Christians were placed on it. In 2012, a wood-carved iconostasis made in the city of Plovdiv was installed. Copies of icons from the Tryavna School were placed on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Turkish school<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the statistical data from 1895-1896, in the village of T\u00fcrk Smil, 145 students studied at the Turkish school, taught by two teachers. During the Romanian occupation, it was closed, as was the Bulgarian school, but elementary education in arithmetic and the Koran remained to function semi-legally at the mosque. In this form, the Turkish school provided elementary education. After September 9, 1944, the school became state-owned and education was carried out in Bulgarian and Turkish. It was a primary school and was housed in the home of the deceased Nikola Dudov. At first, there were two classes, but by 1960 there were four (First, Second, Third and Fourth Departments). After the construction of a new building for the Bulgarian school, at the request and insistence of the Turkish parents, the Turkish school was closed in 1960, and the students were transferred to the Bulgarian school, continuing to study their native language. The last director of the Turkish school was Kosta Kostov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cyril and Methodius Primary School \u2013 Nova Cherna village<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The school in the village of Nova Cherna opened its doors in 1899, its opening is associated with the name of Todor Rakadjiev, a native of the city of Tulcea, who graduated from the Ruse public school the same year. After T\u00fcrk Smil, Rakadjiev became a teacher in Tutrakan. The newly opened school in T\u00fcrk Smil initially had 28 students, of whom 17 were boys and 11 were girls. With each passing year, interest in the school grew, the number of students increased, and the material base improved. In 1906, the school had 36 students and it grew from a three-grade to a four-grade central school. An important event during this period was the construction of a new school building in 1910, in the center of the Bulgarian neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1913, the Romanian authorities were uncompromising regarding the school. Not only the teachers and the intelligentsia were expelled from the village, but also more vigilant Bulgarian and Turkish families. After this purge, the Romanian authorities took up the opening of a Romanian school, which was mandatory for not only the children of the Romanian settlers, but also Bulgarian and Turkish children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1916, just days before Bulgaria entered World War I, the school opened its first junior high school, marking the first decisive step towards transforming the school into a primary school. In 1937, Mayor Rabishon ordered a well to be dug. Today, this school building no longer exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the return of Southern Dobrudja to the Kingdom of Bulgaria, the school was officially opened on February 17, 1941, but regular classes were held from February 23, 1941, with 160 students enrolled in the school. The 1943-1944 school year was opened with a memorial service for the Bulgarian Tsar Boris III, who died in August. The school now has 221 students, divided into departments and classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A junior high school class was opened in 1943, and in 1946 a third grade was opened and the school became a primary school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1946, the Bulgarian and Turkish schools merged into the Cyril and Methodius National Primary School (NPS) – Nova Cherna village. In 1961, an 8th grade class was opened. From the 1959\/1960 school year, the school moved into a new two-story building with 10 classrooms, and later in 1964, the gymnasium was built. From a seventh-grade primary school, it was transformed into an eighth-grade primary school in the 1961\/1962 school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The building was expanded in 1977 and 1982. In 1999, the 100th anniversary of education in the village of Nova Cherna was solemnly celebrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1962, a full-day kindergarten was opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On October 1, 2008, by Decision of the Municipal Council – Tutrakan, two groups from the kindergarten in the village of Nova Cherna joined the “Slavyanka” Tutrakan Kindergarten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Primary School at the State Agricultural Farm (SAF) \u2013 Nova Cherna<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The State Veterinary Service in Nova Cherna was organized in the late 1940s and early 1950s on state land. It quickly established itself and in the 1960s it developed as a modern agricultural enterprise with a solid housing stock and a high degree of mechanization of labor. Due to the excellent living conditions created for the workers in crop and livestock farming, workers from different parts of the Ruse region permanently settled there. The housing stock, as everywhere in all the State Veterinary Service in the country, consists of identical one-story blocks for two families, a dormitory has been built for the beggars. The administration and the veterinary specialists are housed in a two-story building, in a separate two-story block and a rich library with a reading room and a game room for chess, backgammon and other entertaining games. Already in the early 1950s, a building for a primary school and kindergarten was built, as was a public bathhouse, which was not yet available in the village of Nova Cherna, which is why it was also used by the residents of Nova Cherna. A general store and a drinking establishment were opened for the needs of the workers. One of the first directors of the Public Health Service – Nova Cherna was Gencho Trifonov from Loznitsa, Razgrad district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The school was opened in 1955 as an elementary school, and the fourth grade graduates continued to study in the village of Nova Cherna, initially transported by horse-drawn wagon and later by special bus. The school was closed in 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The Georgi Dimitrov Labor Cooperative Agricultural Farm – village of Nova Cherna was founded in the fall of 1946. Stoyan Stoyanov was elected Chairman of the Management Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1948, a decision was made for the Georgi Dimitrov Agricultural Cooperative in the village of Nova Cherna to join the local credit cooperative. The cooperative existed in this form until 1959. After the reorganization in Bulgarian agriculture, the cooperatives in the villages of Syanovo, Tsar Samuil and Nova Cherna formed the Local Credit Cooperative with headquarters in the village of Nova Cherna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1963, the TKZS – Staro Selo merged with the TKZS – Nova Cherna village, and in 1966, the villages in the region merged into the TKZS – Tutrakan town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agro-industrial complex with the center of Tutrakan (Tutrakan agro-industrial complex “Dunav”) was created in 1970 after a decision of the joint plenum of the District Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party and the district leadership of the Bulgarian Agricultural Workers’ Union in Silistra. It includes the agricultural cooperatives of Tutrakan and the villages of Nova Cherna, Belitsa and Malak Preslavets with 254,447 decares of arable land. According to the soil and climatic conditions, the complex received a production orientation for the production of fruits, grapes, vegetables, sugar beets, bread and fodder beets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the early 1990s, the TKZS – Nova Cherna was declared in liquidation and finally liquidated in 1992. Today, the agricultural lands are cultivated by private farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community center<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1942, a community center named “Svetlina” was founded. Initially, it was housed in rooms of five private buildings and gained the status of the most accessible, popular, beloved and visited cultural and educational center in the village. On January 2, 1950, it was renamed the “Todor Pavlov” Community Center. In 1973, the new spacious building of the “Todor Pavlov” community center was opened, which is the center of the cultural life of the village. The new building has a concert hall, rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, and halls for amateur groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The library is one of the most spacious in the area and has 12,000 volumes of literature. Readers’ conferences, book discussions, meetings with writers and cultural figures are held. The community center is an organizer of cultural life in the village – holidays and significant dates are celebrated. Concerts and theater performances are held. In 1996, the museum collection was opened in the lobby of the community center. It includes authentic clothing, and objects from the life of the local population are also exhibited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1997, after the entry into force of the Law on Community Centers, the Todor Pavlov Community Center – village of Nova Cherna was registered with Decision No. 1200 \/03. 10. 1997 of the Silistra District Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2007, by decision of the General Assembly, the community center in the village of Nova Cherna was renamed the Vasil Yordanov Community Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAMALIGA FESTIVAL<\/strong> \u2013 was held for the first time on October 5, 2013, according to Decision No. 5\/2.07.2013 of the community center board of the Vasil Yordanov Community Center in the village of Nova Cherna. The goal of the festival is \u201cto preserve Bulgarian folklore by presenting the diversity of folk art in song, dance, speech and food\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the square in front of the local community center, amateur craftsmen from the Dobrudja region and Romania show their mastery in preparing mamaliga, kachamak or polenta, as the dish made from corn flour is known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authentic folklore groups, individual performers, dance formations, oral folklore, and folk dance clubs from the country and Romania take part in the celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The festival is accompanied by two competitions \u2013 \u201cFor the most delicious mamaliga and mamaliga product\u201d and \u201cFor authentic clothing\u201d. The organizers of the festival are the National Community Center \u201cVasil Yordanov \u2013 1942\u201d, the Municipality of Nova Cherna and the Municipality of Tutrakan. Outside the competition part, a children’s workshop for making banitsa is planned, and a rich musical program is performed on the open stage with the participation of groups from Romania and Northeastern Bulgaria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mamaliga Festival in the village of Nova Cherna is annual and part of the Cultural Calendar of the Tutrakan Municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organizer of the Mamaliga Festival is the \u201cVasil Yordanov-1942\u201d Community Center, Nova Cherna village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OFFROAD \u2013 Nova Cherna<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2010, in June in the village of Nova Cherna, an Offroad car race has been organized – Nova Cherna<\/strong> . A car race, which takes place off-road, second-class and other, driving on wild terrain – hills, shallow rivers, etc. It has been held annually in June in the village of Nova Cherna since 2010. The race is a round of the state Offroad Trophy Championship “Bulgaria Throphy Challenge”. Organizers – Tutrakan Municipality, Chavdar Vladimirov from the village of Nova Cherna and Atanas Arabadzhiev from Ruse. Every year, the organizers select a new route in the surrounding area, which will surprise the crews with challenges. In 2015, over 50 teams from Bulgaria, Greece and Romania took part. The event is two-day, with the first day of the race being in navigation according to a road map, and the second – in movement over very rough terrain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, Offroad \u2013 Nova Cherna has become the largest Offroad competition in the country, and the route manages to challenge even the most experienced thrill seekers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nova Cherna Parallel<\/strong> \u2013 right through the square of the village of Nova Cherna, between the community center and the town hall buildings, about ten kilometers from Tutrakan, the 44th northern parallel passes. Here you can practically \u201cjump\u201d from one latitude to another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Monument<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

          In the center of the village, on the square in front of the \u201cVasil Yordanov -1942\u201d public school, a monument to those who died in the wars from the village of Nova Cherna was opened. The inscription \u201cIn memory of the people of Nova Cherna who died on the battlefields for the freedom of Bulgaria\u201d. In 2022, the monument was supplemented with an element \u201cSt. George’s Cross for Bravery\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dobrudzha, Babadag, No. 10, July 18, 1917; Vladimirov P. I love you, my native land, ed. Kovachev, 2008; Vladimirov, P. History of the Primary School “St. Cyril and Methodius” village of Nova Cherna, Tutrakan municipality (1899 – 1999), 2002; Petkov, E. Ancient history and topography of Transmariska. – In: History of Tutrakan, volume 1. Tutrakan, 2010. History of Tutrakan. volume 2. Tutrakan. 2010; Encyclopedia Tutrakan. 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State Archives \u2013 Silistra, files 71 k, 176 k, 402, 683, 694, 908.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.nsi.bg\/nrnm\/reports\/units-changes-events\/unit_pp\/3313<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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