Dabnitsa

Dabnitsa is a village in Garmen Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria.[2] It is situated in the Dabrash part of the Rhodope Mountains near Mesta river, 4 kilometers south-southeast of Garmen and 79 kilometers southeast of Blagoevgrad.

Dabnitsa
Дъбница
Village
Country Bulgaria
ProvinceBlagoevgrad Province
MunicipalityGarmen
Population
 (15-12-2011[1])
 • Total1,652
 GRAO

The area has been inhabited during the Thracian and Roman period and in the Second Bulgarian Empire. There are remains of an old fortress "St. Archangel" (Bulgarian: Свети Архангел, Sveti Arhangel) 1 kilometer north of the village from that period.[3] In Ottoman times it was called Dubniçe (Ottoman Turkish: دوبنيچه ).[4]

Most of the people in Dabnitsa are of Muslim Turks origin but often declare themselves as Turks, despite their mother language is Bulgarian.[5]

References
  1. Таблица на населението по постоянен и настоящ адрес (in Bulgarian) 15 December 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2022
  2. Guide Bulgaria Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, Accessed May 5, 2010
  3. "An article about the fortress in Bulgarian". Archived from the original on 2012-05-18. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  4. "Dubniçe". Ansiklopedika. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
  5. Михаил Иванов, Дискусии - България. Невидимите помаци. 15 Май 2014 г. сп. "Либерален преглед".

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