Tschiprovzi
| Tschiprovtsi (Чипровци) | |||||
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 Bulgaria
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| Oblast : | Montana | ||||
| Residents : | 1656 (December 31, 2016) | ||||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 23 ' N , 22 ° 53' E | ||||
| Height : | 478 m | ||||
| Postal code : | 3460 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+359) 09554 | ||||
| License plate : | M. | ||||
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| Mayor : | Ivan Markov | ||||
Tschiprowzi (Bulgarian: Чипровци) is a Bulgarian city in the Montana Oblast in the western Balkan Mountains about 30 km from Montana .
The city is known for its colorful carpets, which are decorated with geometric figures that are otherwise rarely found in Bulgarian folklore.
history
Catholic miners from Saxony moved to the city in the 13th century.
After the fall of the last Bulgarian fortress, Vidin, in 1396, Bulgaria finally fell under Ottoman rule.
Prof. Duichev writes about this rule in Tschiprowzi: “The Turks met the Saxon miners in this area. Nothing is known about their position in the first centuries of Ottoman rule. The Ottoman state needed the mines, and it can be assumed that certain freedoms were allowed to the miners. But since they had no way of staying in contact with their compatriots and the Catholic Church, they were strongly influenced by the Bulgarian population there. In the first documents from the XVI. – XVII. Century above these areas, no Saxon miners are mentioned as residents. One must assume that as early as the first half of the 16th century. the Saxons merged with the local population, which had lasting consequences. Many words of German origin have been preserved in the language of the Bulgarian miners. A part of the city was called even until the second half of the 17th century. 'Sachsen mahala' ('Sachsenviertel'). "
Between August and October 1688, the Tschiprowzi uprising against Turkish rule took place. Due to little support from the Christian neighboring powers Austria-Hungary , Poland-Lithuania and Venice , the uprising, led by Georgi Peyachevich ( Pejačević ), Bogdan Marinov, Ivan and Mihail Stanislavov, and Petar Parchevich, was suppressed by the Turks. The suppression was carried out by Janissaries , who acted with great brutality and burned a number of villages. Many rebellious Bulgarians then fled to Wallachia (see Banat Bulgarian ). There is a tendency in Bulgarian historiography to overestimate this uprising, which cannot be justified in terms of quantity or quality. Because at that time only a few thousand Christians lived in the Tschiprovzi area.
Since 2006, the city has given its name to Chiprovtsi Point , a headland of Rugged Island in Antarctica.
sons and daughters of the town
- Petar Bogdan (1601–1674), Bulgarian Catholic bishop, author of the first Bulgarian history ( Latin )
- Baron Petar Partschewitsch (1612–1674), Bulgarian Catholic archbishop, diplomat
- Georgi Pavlov (1913–1995), Bulgarian painter
Individual evidence
- ↑ Б. Балевски "Чипровци", София 1968 г.
- ↑ Wolfgang Geier: Bulgaria between West and East from the 7th to the 20th century. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-447-04467-7 , p. 116. Restricted preview in the Google book search
- ↑ Southeast Institute Munich (Ed.): Southeast Research. S. Hirzel, Volume 49, 1990, p. 519.
literature
- Peter Tscholow: Chiprovtsi Uprising, 1688. Narodna Prosveta Publishers. Sofia 1988
- B. Balewski: Tschiprowzi , 1968, Sofia
