Kulata

Kulata (Кулата)
Help on coat of arms Kulata
Basic data
State :	Bulgaria
Oblast :	Blagoevgrad
Residents :	888  (2008)
Coordinates :	41 ° 23 '  N , 23 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 23 '0 "  N , 23 ° 22' 0"  E
Height :	105 m
Postal code :	2868
Telephone code :	([phone]
License plate :	E.
administration
Mayor :	Dimitar Manow

Mayor's office in Kulata

Kulata ( Bulgarian Кулата ; earlier occasionally Koula) is a village in southwest Bulgaria , in the municipality of Petritsch , district / Oblast Blagoevgrad . In the past the village was only called "Kula" or "Petritschka Kula" (in German: Kula bei Petritsch ), to distinguish it from the nearby village of "Kula" in Greece, Serres regional district , which today is Paleokastro (Greek Παλαιόκαστρο; in German: old fortress ) called. There is also a town in northwestern Bulgaria called Kula .

"Kula" means "tower" in Bulgarian. The ending "-ta" in "Kulata" is the definitive article , so "Kulata" means "the tower".

geography

The village is located in the basin of Sandanski and Petrich , on the left bank of the Struma river , which runs 1.5 km west of the village.

The Kulata-Promachonas border crossing is located on the southwestern border of the village. It is the main border crossing between Bulgaria and Greece . The E 79 , the Awtomagistrala "Struma" and the main railway line cross the border here. The Dupnitsa – Kulata railway line was electrified in 2001. The customs post of the Kulata border crossing is in the village of Kulata. The customs station is also responsible for the Slatarevo customs station (Bulgarian Златарево) and the customs office in Petritsch.

On the Greek side of the border crossing is the village of Promachonas (Greek Προμαχώνας, Bulgarian Драготин / Dragotin), in the municipality of Sindiki (Greek Προμαχώνας), Serres regional district .

history

In the 19th century Kulata was a small Bulgarian landowner village (estate: Turkish "çiftlik", Bulgar. Чифлик / tschiflik), which belonged to the judicial district / Kaaza Sidirokastro .

In 1873 the village consisted of 20 households with 65 Bulgarians. In 1900 Kula had 110 inhabitants, all of them Christian Bulgarians.

According to the statistics of Dimitar Mishev (Bulgarian Димитър Мишев Димитров), the secretary of the Bulgarian exarchate , the village already belonged to the Kaaza Melnik in 1905 and the Christian population consisted of 96 Bulgarians.

During the Greek-Bulgarian border conflict in 1925, known as Incident Petritsch (bulg. Петрички инцидент), the village of Kulata on the Greek army was occupied.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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, pp. 138-139.
2. ↑ Васил Кънчов: Македония. Етнография и статистика (German: Wasil Kantschow: Makedonia. Ethnography and statistics). Sofia, 1900, p. 185
3. ↑ DM Brancoff: La Macédoine et sa population Chrétienne. (German: Macedonia and its Christian population; Note: DM Brancoff is the pseudonym of Dimitar Mischew); Paris, 1905, pp. 192-193.