Tsarevo

Tsarevo ( [ tsarɛvo ], English transcription Tsarevo, Bulgarian Царево ) is a city and administrative center of a municipality of the same name in South-East Bulgaria, Oblast Burgas. Tsarevo is situated on the Black Sea and has a small harbor. The city is located about 70 km south of Bourgas and 7 km north of Achtopol.

Naming

Its name from the city because it was founded by a Tsar. Over time Tsarevo had different names:

  • Tsarevo, Wasiliky ( Bulg: Царево, Василику ) (12th century)
  • Wasilikos ( Bulg: Василикос ) ( 1352)
  • Wasiliko ( Bulg: Василико ) (until 1934)
  • Tsarevo ( Bulg: Царево ) (until 1950)
  • Mitschurin ( Bulg: Мичурин ) (until 1991 ) (after Ivan Mitschurin )
  • Tsarevo ( Bulg: Царево ) (since 1992)

History

Three kilometers north of the city ( in the amount of camping Arapja ( Bulg Арапя ) ) Archaeologists have discovered remains from the Late Antiquity in the Black Sea. In underwater archaeological explorations Welisar Welkow and his team amphoras from the 4th - 6th Century AD discovered and imported pottery from North Africa, Syria and Constantinople Opel.

With the old name of the city Wasilikos the city is first mentioned by the Arab geographers Indrisi in the 12th century AD. The port Wasilikos was also in the 15th - 16th Century mentioned in writing. About the small fortress on the southern cape of Tsarevo also told the Turkish traveler Evliya Çelebi, he called it in 1662 Wasilikos Burgas. According to him, Burgas suggests a Greek fortress. In the Ottoman tax registers from the second half of the 17th century and in the 18th century Wasiliko is listed.

In Tsarevo a Tschitalischte named " Georgi Kondolow " exists.

2012 archaeological excavations took place in Tsarevo for the first time. These were led by archaeologist Milen Nikolov from the History Museum in Burgas. It remains an unknown Thracian city is located, which was inhabited from the end of the 4th century the beginning of the 3rd century BC to the end of the 1st century.

Location

Tsarevo is situated on a bay. On the southern peninsula there are the remains of a medieval fortress. Another late antique / medieval fortress there on the summit Papija, in the neighboring beach Saddle Mountains.

Community structure

The municipality of Tsarevo ( Bulg Община Царево ) still belong next to the town Tsarevo town Achtopol and the following villages:

  • Balgari
  • Brodilowo
  • Varvara
  • Welika
  • Fazanowo
  • Isgrew
  • Kondolowo
  • Kosti
  • Lozenez
  • Sinemorets
  • Rezowo

The municipality of Tsarevo counts 9,623 inhabitants ( 2005).

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Georgi Kondolow (1858-1903), revolutionary, freedom fighter, a member of the BMARK
  • Angel Tjukedschiew

Gallery

Library of the City

Bulgarian Orthodox Church St. Tsar Boris Michael

Hall of Tsarevo

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