{"id":1234,"date":"2024-10-23T22:59:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T19:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elia-centre.eu\/en\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2025-02-05T12:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T10:29:34","slug":"%d1%86%d0%b0%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%b2-%d0%b4%d0%be%d0%bb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elia-centre.eu\/en\/1234","title":{"rendered":"Tsarev Dol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tsarev Dol<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location<\/strong> \u2013 about 2 km from the Silistra \u2013 Ruse road in the direction of Silistra, 15 km southeast of the municipal center Tutrakan and 52 km southwest of the regional center Silistra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Old name<\/strong> : Visk\u00f6y. Vis k\u00f6y, translated from Turkish to Bulgarian as “vizier’s village”. Renamed in 1942. Joined to it on May 29, 1956, the village of Sofiytsi (Chaush mahle), which was also renamed in 1942.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

1881 \u2013 272 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1910 \u2013 578 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1911 \u2013 583 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1930 \u2013 548 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1934 \u2013 742 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1946 \u2013 749 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1985 \u2013 159 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2000 \u2013 145 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011 \u2013 50 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 \u2013 42 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Tsarev Dol is present on the Archaeological Map of Bulgaria with 1. A tomb mound in the Elbasana area. Altitude 128.84 m, diameter about 30 m, height about 0.50 m. It has been almost destroyed by plowing. Its western periphery is completely defaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. A grave mound in the Elbasana area. Altitude 130.30 m, diameter about 30 m, height about 2 m. Traces of excavations have been discovered. Scattered quarry stones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Mound necropolis, consisting of five mounds arranged in an irregular circle. Annual plowing. No traces of husbandry. No lifting material found. Total area about 12 acres. Leveled surface. Altitude 120 \u2013 130 m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. A grave mound located in the northwestern part of the closed village of Sofiytsi. Leveled surface. Altitude 132 m. Shrubs, fields, pasture. It was over 2 m high, but the Yanko Zabunov State Agricultural Society uses it as a source of soil. Now it has a diameter of about 60 m and a height of about 0.70 m. On the embankment and around it are broken stones. No finds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Grave mound, south of the former village of Sofiytsi. Leveled surface. Altitude 132 m. Diameter. about 65 m, height about 2 m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The areas around the village were called: Cherkezkia Bair, Elbasan (Yurtluka), etc. In the Elbasan area, according to local sources, there was a village that was populated mainly by Bulgarians, but during the Turkish rule, during a wedding, Turkish soldiers arrived in the village, about 4-6 people, and the person in charge wanted to spend the night with the bride. The groom and his close people organized the murder of all the Turks and that same evening, in order not to kill them, they crossed the Danube River and settled in Romania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tsarev Dol during the Renaissance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to legend, the old name of Tsarev Dol – Viskoy – comes from the name of a wealthy Turk named Visirkoy, who, during the days of Turkish slavery, passed along the old vilayet road near the village, which is still called “Vizir-Yolu”, and stopped to rest with his retinue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bulgarian population from the Tutrakan villages emigrated and settled in villages on the left bank of the Danube such as Ulmen, Surlarii and others, as well as further inland in the Wallachian Plain (in the villages of Luyka, Perlitra and others).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the 17th century, the village has been included in the borders of the Tutrakanska kaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As early as 1830, the Porte undertook a policy of patronage and return of the Bulgarians, and their settlement in the abandoned and deserted settlements of Dobrudja, by waiving taxes for 1 to 5 years, granting them seeds, tools of labor, oxen, fields with a single tax – tithe, etc. The emigration war at the beginning of the 19th century covered not only Dobrudja, but also all of Eastern Bulgaria. Some of the refugees failed to get used to the new conditions in Moldova, Wallachia and Bessarabia and began to return to Bulgaria again, but few reached their native places. Attracted by free uncultivated lands and houses, even villages exempted from taxes to the Turkish authorities for several years, they remained in Dobrudja. Thus, in the Tutrakan villages of Viskoy (Tsarev dol) and Sarsanlar (Zafirovo), “erlii” from the Razgrad village of Harsovo settled in 1828. 56 families settled in Viscoi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 1864, a Circassian population settled in Visk\u00f6y. The Circassians are Muslims and go to the mosque, but their character is very different from the local Turkish and Bulgarian population. They are accustomed to a free life and theft. They often encroach on the livestock of the remaining population, which is why they are not loved by either the Turks or the Bulgarians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), the Circassians left the village en masse. After the decrees of the Berlin Congress of 1878, 65 Bulgarians – refugees from the Edirne and Lozengrad regions, settled in the village of Viskoy, which had been depopulated by Turks and Circassians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tsarev Dol after the Liberation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rural municipal government \u2013 \u200b\u200bthe village of Viskoy was established after the liberation of Bulgaria from Turkish slavery as a local authority and management. It includes the villages of Antimovo, Krasnogor, Sofiytsi, Tarnovtsi and Chernogor. The municipal government takes care of the administrative, financial and public welfare of the municipality, education, agriculture, trade, tax collection. It is included as a territorial-administrative unit in the Tutrakan district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The population makes its living mainly from agriculture and cattle breeding. Agriculture in this region continues with the traditional grain crops (wheat, barley, oats, millet, legumes and fodder), and in the first half of the 19th century, corn and potatoes began to be grown. In the villages along the Danube coast, many vineyards, vegetables, watermelons, and melons are grown. Agriculture develops slowly and painfully in an extensive way, due to the low level of agricultural machinery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to local residents, the entire supply service for the population was provided by a merchant who ran a small shop and a tavern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 1899, poor farmers organized a protest in Viscoi against moneylenders and greengrocers. In 1903, a paramedical health post was opened in the village, and in 1940, a district health service was established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Inter-Allied War and the signed Bucharest Peace Treaty of July 28, 1913, Southern Dobrudja 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. A military fortress was built at Tutrakan.<\/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 the terror, entire villages were massacred, and women were raped in a number of settlements. Villagers were kidnapped and interned in Moldova in 1916, some of whom never returned. On September 1, 1916, Bulgaria declared war on its \u201ctreacherous neighbor\u201d Romania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The units of the 3rd Bulgarian Army, on September 1-2, 1916, crossed the Dobrudja border from the Danube to the Black Sea. On September 5 and 6, 1916, the epic battle for Tutrakan took place. After the start of hostilities, the Romanian authorities and the retreating Romanian troops committed mass kidnappings and atrocities in many Dobrudja towns and villages. Tsarev Dol was burned down by the Romanians.<\/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 put an end to Bulgaria’s participation in World War I and left all of Dobrudja under Romanian rule again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to information in the newspaper “Dobrudzhansko Zname”, published in Sofia on June 1, 1921, “V. Viscoi is a purely Bulgarian village with wealthy, alert and patriotic Bulgarians. The Wallachian government apparently did not like this and accused the village of being a hangout for Bulgarian bands and placed a company of soldiers led by Capt. Ciganescu, who had been a prisoner in Bulgaria and now set himself the task of avenging his captivity. He had unlimited rights in the village of Viscoi, he had the property, life and honor of the poor Viscoi people at his disposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A refugee from the village of Viscoi, who fled as a result of the unbearable tortures inflicted by Capt. Ciganescu\u2019s soldiers, says the following: Capt. Ciganescu is the master of everything in our village, our women are his hostages, especially those, the men whose wives are in Bulgaria. [\u2026]\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1919, the village remained within the borders of Romania \u2013 the years of Romanian occupation were particularly difficult and harsh for Viskoy. During the Romanian occupation in 1919, Romanians came, but only as employees, and in 1926 their settlement took place \u2013 some of them were Romanians and some were Macedonians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On August 2, 1919, the Romanians collected men’s civilian clothing from the villages of Kad\u0131k\u00f6y, Ryakhovo, Span\u00e7ov, Bulgarian Kosuy, Sarsanlar, Visk\u00f6y, and dressed their bandits, who went from village to village and tortured the villagers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1927, Karakachans who had been evicted from Greece settled in the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1928, the Romanian authorities settled colonists from Thessaloniki, who harassed the local Bulgarian population. They were not allowed to go on sit-ins and move around at night. According to the stories of people who witnessed the events, anyone they caught at night was locked up with the gendarmes’ horses and the horses were beaten to kick and trample them. The colonists from Thessaloniki numbered 453 people or 80% of the entire population, who harassed the local Bulgarian population. Some of the Bulgarians emigrated to Bulgaria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August 1929, after the harvest, Romanian colonists in Sarsanlar, Kad\u0131k\u00f6y, Visk\u00f6y, Staro Selo, Asfatk\u00f6y, etc. stole the harvested crop, condemning many rural families to starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Liberation of Southern Dobrudja in September 1940, the village was declared the center of a municipality in the Tutrakan district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It accommodated 920 immigrants from Northern Dobrudja, mainly from the village of Sar\u0131gyol, Tulchanska district, and also some of the Bulgarians who fled in 1926-1928 returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1940, the village was burned down by the Romanians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

After September 9, 1944, until the end of 1958, the village was a municipal center with constituent villages: Antimovo, Tarnovtsi, Chernogor and Krasnogor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 1947 until 1960, almost all the settlers moved to the Tolbukhinsky district, to the town of Balchik and the village of Tsarichina, and a few families remained in the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 1, 1945, the Consumer Cooperative “Pobeda” began its activities. Its goal was to eliminate private traders, who together with other speculators existed at that time, and to serve as a regulator of the prices of goods and agricultural products. The role of the cooperative is to assist the poor population by crediting it with loans and other such. The main activity of the Consumer Cooperative “Pobeda” is retail trade, public catering, purchase of agricultural products and secondary raw materials, industry, brandy distilling, a dairy for the production of yellow cheese and cheese. The highest-ranking organization of the cooperative is the Regional Cooperative Union – Tutrakan and then the District Cooperative Union – Silistra. Over time, the structure and functions of the cooperative changed in order to meet the constantly changing needs of the population, to be of its assistance and service. The role of the cooperative is of great importance for the nutrition of the population, its assistance, cooperation, care and support. In February 1963. Consumer Cooperative “Pobeda” – village of Tsarev Dol merges with City Consumer Cooperative “Narkoop” – Tutrakan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. There is a fattening farm at the Agricultural Complex – Tutrakan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1954 the village was electrified, and water was supplied in 1965.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A dental office was furnished and opened in 1954. In 1960, a general store selling bread was opened in the village of Tsarev Dol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From June 1, 1976, the villages of Tarnovtsi, Tsarev Dol and Antimovo were established as a separate council, and from 1979 it became part of the Tutrakan Municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

During the years 1881 \u2013 1882, a village-wide committee was established for the construction of a church, which quickly raised funds. The construction of the church “St. Archangel Michael” began in 1881, and was finally completed in 1884. The master builders were Balkan craftsmen from Tryavna, but their names are unknown. It was consecrated in 1885 or 1887 by Metropolitan Grigory. It is a massive single-nave basilica, built of stone with dimensions: length 12 m, width 7 m and height 5 m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bell is placed on two pillars west of the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The iconostasis is paneled, without woodcarving. The icons were painted by the Tryavna iconographer Mityu Tsonev in 1884. The iconographer’s autograph is on the icon of “St. St. Cyril and Methodius” on the bishop’s throne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The temple was declared an architectural monument of culture by letter No. 223\/25.01.1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The school was opened in 1878 with the first teacher, Philip Mitanov from Bessarabia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The construction of the new school building began in 1916 and was completed in 1918. In the 1977-1978 school year, after a reform in the educational system, the school was closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

On February 17, 1941, at the initiative of Mayor Dimitar Petkanov, the Vasil Levski Community Center was founded. A management board was elected consisting of: Chairman Dimitar Petkanov, Vice Chairman Racho Uzunov, Secretary-Treasurer Petar Nikolov. Literacy courses were organized at the community center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, the community center was renovated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to the age of the population, community center activities are aimed at preserving and promoting local traditions and customs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Labor-cooperative agricultural farm “Raiko Daskalov” – village of Tsarev Dol was founded in 1956 with 45 households. Mr. Gospodin Gospodinov Velikov was elected chairman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1958, the unification of farms began, and the farms of the villages of Pozharevo, Dunavets, Tsarev Dol, Antimovo and Tarnovtsi passed to the Labor Cooperative Agricultural Farm “Hr. Botev”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1959, the TKZS – village of Chernogor passed to the TKZS – village of Tsarev Dol, after which both farms merged with the OTKZS “Hristo Botev” – Tutrakan.<\/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 Land, in 1992 they were declared in liquidation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1993, the Tsarev Dol Agricultural Cooperative was founded, headquartered in the village of Tarnovtsi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayors:<\/strong> 1. Kiro Mihaylov Kirov \u2013 1956 2. Dimitar Stefanov Gospodinov \u2013 1964 3. Dimitar Passatov \u2013 1978 4. Yordanka Kirova Atanasova \u2013 1979 5. Petar Yordanov Petrov \u2013 1983 6. Rusi Angelov Rusev \u2013 1985 7. Tsonyo Denev Gatev \u2013 1989 8. Georgi Kostov Ivanov \u2013 1991\u20132003 9. Petar Nikolov Petrov \u2013 2003\u20132007 10. Nevyanka Ivanova Yordanova \u2013 2007\u20132011 11. Valya Borisova Grancharova \u2013 2011\u2013201?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Archive: YES \u2013 Silistra \u2013 31<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fund No. 1052 \/ Group Fund “People’s Community Centers from Silistra Region”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inventory No. 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Archival unit No. 192 \/ \/ Information cards about the activities of the Vasil Levski Community Center (Vasil Levski Community Center) (2005-2015)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.nsi.bg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.nsi.bg\/statlib\/bg\/lister.php?iid=DO-010000010&page=105<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Voice. Silistra, No. 28, Aug. 5; No. 29, Aug. 30, 1929; History of Tutrakan. Vol. 2010; Mutafov, Vl. History of the Temples in the Ruse Diocese. Part Two. P. 2021; Encyclopedia Tutrakan. Publ. Gutenberg. P. 2023;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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