Kavaklı (Kırklareli)

	Kavaklı
Basic data
Province (il) :	Kırklareli
Coordinates :	41 ° 39 ' N , 27 ° 10' E Coordinates: 41 ° 39 '19 " N , 27 ° 10' 21" E
Height :	165 m
Residents :	3,496 (2010)
Telephone code :	(+90) 288
Postal code :	39 xxx
License plate :	39
Structure and administration (as of 2011)
Mayor :	İnci Tunç

Kavaklı (also Kavaklija, Bulgarian Каваклия / Каваклъ ) is a municipality in the Turkish Thrace in the central district of the province of Kırklareli in Eastern Thrace . The village is located about 15 km south of the provincial capital Kırklareli .

history

In the 19th century Kavaklı was a Bulgarian village (see Thracian Bulgarians ) in the kaza Kırklareli in the Vilayet Edirne . In 1873 the village consisted of 314 households with 1846 Bulgarians

After the Russo-Ottoman War from 1877 to 1878, the first families settled in Rasgrad and Tutrakan in liberated Bulgaria . According to statistics from Ljubomir Miletitsch , Kavaklı had about 1,090 inhabitants in 1900, all of whom were Christian Bulgarians.

After the outbreak of the Balkan War in 1912, 14 volunteers from Kavaklı fought in the Macedonia-Adrianople Volunteer Corps of the Bulgarian Army . In 1913, after the outbreak of the Second Balkan War, when the Turkish army recaptured Eastern Thrace, the entire Bulgarian population fled from Kavaklı to Bulgaria . Refugees from Kavaklı were sent to Dolno Eserowo (50 families), Laka (32 families), Bratowo (25 families), Wojnika (25 families), Wetren (24 families), Rawnez (23 families), Poroj ( 10 families), in Koscharitsa (8 families), in Wesselie (7 families) as well as other families in Burgas , in Varna , in Sozopol , in Banewo , in Debelt , in Fakija , in Malka Poljana , in Twarditsa and other places.

Born in Kavaklı

Ivan Kotkow (1858–1901), Bulgarian revolutionary
Konstantin Petkanow (1891–1952), Bulgarian scientist and writer

Individual evidence

^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed December 16, 2011
↑ Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г. Македонски научен институт (German: Makedonien und Regieon Edirne. Population statistics from 1873; Macedonian Scientific Institute), Sofia, 1995, pages 32–33.
↑ Lyubomir Miletich: Разорението на тракийскитеѣ българи презъ 1913 година (. Bulg Razorjawaneto na trakijskite Balgari prez 1913 godina) Publisher Balgarski bestseller, Sofia, 2003, p 297, ISBN 954-9308-14-6
↑ Македоно-одринското опълчение 1912-1913 г. Личен състав , Bulgarian Central Archives , Sofia, 2006, p. 849.

^ Stojan Rajtschewski: Eastern Thrace. Ethnic composition and emigration in the XV-ХХ centuries (from the Bulgarian Източна Тракия. История, етноси, преселения XV-ХХ век ), Sofia, 2002, pp. 215–216, 247, 252–253, 258–256 263, 265, 267, 272-273, 276, and 279-281

[Infobox_Ort_in_der_Türkei.EinwohnerOrt-1] Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed December 16, 2011

[2] Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г. Македонски научен институт (German: Makedonien und Regieon Edirne. Population statistics from 1873; Macedonian Scientific Institute), Sofia, 1995, pages 32–33.

[3] Lyubomir Miletich: Разорението на тракийскитеѣ българи презъ 1913 година (. Bulg Razorjawaneto na trakijskite Balgari prez 1913 godina) Publisher Balgarski bestseller, Sofia, 2003, p 297, ISBN 954-9308-14-6

[4] Македоно-одринското опълчение 1912-1913 г. Личен състав , Bulgarian Central Archives , Sofia, 2006, p. 849.

[5] Stojan Rajtschewski: Eastern Thrace. Ethnic composition and emigration in the XV-ХХ centuries (from the Bulgarian Източна Тракия. История, етноси, преселения XV-ХХ век ), Sofia, 2002, pp. 215–216, 247, 252–253, 258–256 263, 265, 267, 272-273, 276, and 279-281