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| leader_name = Tatyana Sofranova
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Latest revision as of 10:47, 22 April 2024

Bardarski Geran
Bardársći Gjeránj
Village
Бърдарски геран
Church in Bardarski Geran
Church in Bardarski Geran
Bardarski Geran is located in Bulgaria
Bardarski Geran
Bardarski Geran
Location of Bardarski Geran
Coordinates: 43°32′57″N 23°57′08″E / 43.54917°N 23.95222°E / 43.54917; 23.95222
CountryBulgaria
Province
(Oblast)		Vratsa
Municipality
(Obshtina)		Byala Slatina
First settled1887
Government
 • MayorTatyana Sofranova
Area
 • Land28.033 km2 (10.824 sq mi)
Elevation
159 m (522 ft)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total633
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal Code
3259

Bardarski Geran (Bulgarian: Бърдарски геран; Banat Bulgarian: Bardársći Gjeránj or Bardáre) is a village in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Byala Slatina Municipality, Vratsa Province. It is among the several villages founded by Banat Bulgarians returning from the Banat after the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule in 1878, and is thus predominantly Roman Catholic. It is regarded as "the capital of Banat Bulgarians in Bulgaria" by certain members of the community.[1]

Geography[edit]

The village of Bardarski Geran is located in the western part of the Danube plain, near its most fertile field Zlatiyata, known in the past as the granary of Western Bulgaria.

The climate is temperate continental with pronounced temperature amplitudes. Spring is cool, summer - dry and hot, winter - cold.

History and culture[edit]

The village was founded in 1887,[2] mostly by Banat Bulgarian settlers (initially 185 families) from Dudeștii Vechi (Stár Bišnov) in Austria-Hungary (today in Romania).[3] A number of Banat Swabians also settled, beginning with seven families in 1893, their total number later exceeding 90 families.[4] Due to the religious differences (the Bulgarian inhabitants of the surrounding villages being Eastern Orthodox), the inhabitants of Bardarski Geran would mostly communicate with residents of the other Catholic villages in the region.

The village has two Roman Catholic churches, one of which is the Church of St Joseph, and the other the German Church of the Virgin Mary, which is almost destroyed due to lack of maintenance, as the bulk of the Germans left around World War II.[5] Despite the common denomination, lifestyle and customs, the Bulgarians and the Germans would not usually intermarry and often quarrelled, and so preferred to have two separate churches. In the 1930s, the Bulgarian parish priest was Evgeniy Bosilkov, future Bishop of Nikopol, while the German colonists were served by Emil Frohe.[6]

Bardarski Geran's characteristic architecture featuring elongated one-storey houses with Central European-style sharp-pointed roofs and straight streets owes much to Italian architect and engineer Leopold Forabosco who settled in the village after arriving in Bulgaria on Tsar Ferdinand's request.[7]

The monthly newspaper of the Banat Bulgarians in Bulgaria, Falmis, was founded in Bardarski Geran in 1997.[8] There is also a folklore dance group active in Bardarski Geran and performing Banat Bulgarian dances and songs. The Bardarski Geran cultural centre (chitalishte) was founded in 1923 by Germans and Bulgarians in the house of Mathis Scheringer; in 1958, it moved to its present building. The village has an amateur football club, named after Botev. In the village's centre, right next to the clock tower, there is a monument to a Soviet fighter plane crew that crashed in the vicinity in World War II, as well as a monument to the locals that perished in the Balkan Wars and World War I.[7]

Gallery[edit]

  • Museum
    Museum
  • Banat Bulgarian church
    Banat Bulgarian church
  • Banat Bulgarian church
    Banat Bulgarian church
  • Inside the Banat Bulgarian church
    Inside the Banat Bulgarian church
  • German church
    German church
  • German church
    German church
  • Old house
    Old house
  • Old house
    Old house
  • Pope John XXIII comes in the village
    Pope John XXIII comes in the village
  • Lukan Chukanov and other founders of the village
    Lukan Chukanov and other founders of the village
  • The last settlers from Dudeștii Vechi
    The last settlers from Dudeștii Vechi
  • Participants at the Fershangi International Festival in Bardarski Geran in 2015
    Participants at the Fershangi International Festival in Bardarski Geran in 2015

Notable people[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ "Коментар от Светлана Караджова" (in Bulgarian). Иде.ли?. Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2007-03-24.
  2. ^ Делиева, Радослава. "Сънища от Бърдарски геран" (in Bulgarian). Списание Одисей. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-05-26.
  3. ^ Nyagulov, p. 91.
  4. ^ Nyagulov, p. 121.
  5. ^ "1. Никополската епархия — консолидация под външен натиск". Католиците между двете световни войни 1918–1944 (in Bulgarian). IMIR. Archived from the original on 2006-05-19. Retrieved 2007-03-24.
  6. ^ Еленков, Иван. "Католическата църква в България и общностните идентичности на принадлежащите към нея вернипрез XIX и първата половина на ХХ век" (in Bulgarian). Балкански идентичности. Archived from the original on 2007-04-02. Retrieved 2007-03-24.
  7. ^ a b "Бърдарски геран" (in Bulgarian). Бърдарски геран. 2009-02-12. Archived from the original on 30 January 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
  8. ^ ""Фалмис" — вестник на банатските българи" (in Bulgarian). Вестник "Македония". 1999-01-20. Archived from the original on 2007-02-26. Retrieved 2007-03-24.

References[edit]

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External links[edit]

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