Strandzha - Brashlyan, Petrova Niva, Kosti, Malko Tarnovo, Nestinarstvo, Silkosiya Reserve, Rezovo River, Veleka, Brodilovo, Ropotamo (Paperback)

Chapters: Brashlyan, Petrova Niva, Kosti, Malko Tarnovo, Nestinarstvo, Silkosiya Reserve, Rezovo River, Veleka, Brodilovo, Ropotamo, Vitanovo Reserve, Karaagach, Dyavolska Reka. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. 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: Brashlyan (Bulgarian: , "ivy") is a village in southeastern Bulgaria, part of Malko Tarnovo municipality, Burgas Province. Known as Sarmashik until 1934, today the entire village is an architectural reserve displaying characteristic Strandzha wooden architecture from the mid-17th to the 19th century. Brashlyan lies in the low Strandzha mountains of Bulgaria's southeast, 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) northwest of Malko Tarnovo, 64 kilometres (40 mi) south of Burgas and 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from the BulgariaTurkey border. The village traces its foundation to the 17th century when the residents of the Yurtet, Selishte and Zhivak neighbourhoods settled in the Lower Neighbourhood of Brashlyan. The village was mentioned in Ottoman tax registers of the mid-17th century as part of the district of Anchialos (Pomorie) and grew into a major centre of animal husbandry by the 19th century. The old name Sarmashik was from Ottoman Turkish sarmak and had the same meaning, "ivy." The St Demetrius Church (17th century)The Sarmashik Affair, a predecessor of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, took place in Brashlyan in 1903. A band of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Revolutionary Organization was surrounded by Ottoman troops in the Balyuva House on 2 April; the band leader (voivode) Pano Angelov and the member Nikola Ravashola were killed by the Ottomans. The locals also participated in the actual uprising. According to Lyubomir Miletich's demographic survey of the Ottoman province of Edirne in The Destruction of Thracian Bulgarians in 1913, published i...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=19821783