Sratsimir () has been a settlement since 1830. Its population comes from the villages in
Ludogorie
The Ludogorie () or Deliorman (; and Bulgarian: lud - "mad", "crazy" and gora - "forest"), is a region in northeastern Bulgaria stretching over the plateau of the same name. Major cities in the region are Targovishte, Razgrad, Dulovo, Novi P ...
after the signing of the
Treaty of Adrianople (1829)
The Treaty of Adrianople (also called the Treaty of Edirne) concluded the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–29, between Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire. The terms favored Russia, which gained access to the mouths of the Danube and new territ ...
. The settlers were tricked by the Russian authorities into settling in
Moldavia
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, but on the way they found that there were many free and rich lands with
chernozem
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in the area. In addition, the 20-mile
Silistra
Silistra ( ; ; or ) is a town in Northeastern Bulgaria. The town lies on the southern bank of the lower Danube river, and is also the part of the Romanian border where it stops following the Danube. Silistra is the administrative center of the ...
region is under occupation by the
Russian Empire
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as a guarantee for the implementation of the peace treaty with the
Ottoman Empire
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, and in particular for the payment of
reparations
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Christianity
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* Restitution (theology), the Christian doctrine calling for re ...
.
Due to the fact that the emigrants were very awake, violent and rebellious, they settled and hid the village in the area of a wild forest, which is why the village was first called Ottoman-Turkish Kara Orman, which in English literally means Black Mountain.
Until 1836, the land of the village was under de facto Russian control from Silistra (since 1837 the
Medjidi Tabia fortress
The Medjidi Tabia Fortress () is a fortress from the 1840s and early 1850s.
The fortress was built in the period 1841-1853 according to the plans of the German military engineer Helmut von Moltke who visited Silistra in 1837. In 1847 it was v ...
was built), which is why the local Bulgarians decided that the forest surrounding the village would be the largest secret weapons depot for the prepared but thwarted an uprising called the
Velcho's Conspiracy (1835). At the head of the conspiracy in the region is
Georgi Mamarchev, a Bulgarian and Russian officer, as well as
Georgi Rakovski's uncle.
From 1913 to 1940, the village was part of
Durostor County
Durostor County was a county (''județ'') of the Kingdom of Romania, in Southern Dobruja, with the seat at Dârstor.
The county was located in the south-eastern part of Greater Romania, in the southern Dobrogea region, known as Cadrilater. Current ...
in the
Kingdom of Romania
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.
[book: Silistra during the Revival; Pirin Boyadzhiev; Sofia, 1993, pp. 268-272]
References
Villages in Silistra Province
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