Star chitak explained

Official Name:Star chitak
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Bulgaria
Pushpin Label Position:Location in Bulgaria
Subdivision Name: Bulgaria
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Kardzhali Province
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:Ardino
Area Total Km2:1.505
Population As Of:2013
Population Total:25
Timezone:EET
Utc Offset:+2
Timezone Dst:EEST
Utc Offset Dst:+3
Coordinates:41.667°N 25.217°W

Star chitak (Bulgarian: Стар читак) is a village in Ardino Municipality, Kardzhali Province, southern-central Bulgaria. It is located southeast of Sofia.[1] It covers an area of 1.505 square kilometres and as of 2013 it had a population of 25 people.[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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Star chitak. Guide Bulgaria. 26 May 2016.
  2. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ijhe/issue/49905/619373