K Rklareli Province - K Rklareli, Otoyol 3, K Rklareli Jewish Quarter, Arma an Dam (Paperback)

Chapters: K rklareli, Otoyol 3, K rklareli Jewish Quarter, Arma an Dam. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Krklareli - It is not clearly known when the city was founded, nor under what name. Greek Byzantines called it "Forty Churches" ("," Saranta Ekklisies) and in the XIV Century, this was translated to Turkish and called "Krk Kilise" . During the Republican Period, Sanjaks became cities and on December 20, 1924, Krk Kilise's name was changed to Krklareli. The Bulgarian name of the town is Lozengrad (), which means "vineyard town." The denomination "Kirklarely" was already used years before 1924, for example in the contemporary literature concerning the Balkan Wars of 1912-13. In 1878, Krk Kilise was home to 6500 Bulgarians, 2000 Greeks and 2500 Turks. The city was damaged during the Greek War of Independence. During the Balkan Wars, Krk Kilise was occupied by Bulgaria, and then by Greece in the aftermath of World War I. According to the official Ottoman census of 1906/7 (published in "Ottoman Population 1830-1914, Demographic and Social Characteristics" by Kemal H. Karpat), the ethnic-religious breakdown of Kirk Kilise in 1914 was: The city was retaken by the Turks on November 10, 1922. According to the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey, non-Turks here were exchanged for Turks in Greece. Most of the inhabitants of the city are Turks who formerly lived in Thessaloniki until the First Balkan War of 1912. In 1923 most of the 3700 inhabitants of Notia, the only moslem village of the Megleno-Romanians in northern Greece, settled in the Edirne area -mainly in Krklareli- and became known as Karadjovalides after the Turkish name of Moglen: The number of these megleno-vlachs families settled in Kirklarei were more than 110, while thos...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2502380