Veselie ( bg, Веселие) is a village in

Primorsko Municipality Primorsko Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Приморско, ''Obshtina Primorsko'') is a municipality in Burgas Province, Bulgaria. It includes the towns of Primorsko Primorsko ( bg, Приморско ) is a town and seaside resort in so ...

Burgas Province Burgas Province ( bg, Област Бургас, translit=Oblast Burgas, formerly the Burgas okrug) is a province in southeastern Bulgaria, including the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. The province is named after its administrative and indus ...

, in southeastern

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...

. As of 2013 it has 539 inhabitants.

Geography

The village is situated in a valley near the

Ropotamo The Ropotamo ( bg, Ропотамо , from the Ancient Greek word Ροπόταμος ''ropotamos'' meaning "border river") is a river in south-eastern Bulgaria. It takes its source from the Bosna Ridge in the Strandzha Mountains, running for 48.5 ...

River at the western foothills of

Medni Rid Medni Rid ( bg, Медни рид, meaning ''Copper Ridge''), also known as Bakarlak (Бакърлък) until 1942, is a ridge in south-eastern Bulgaria. It forms the north-eastern extreme of the Bosna Ridge in the Strandzha Mountains. Administra ...

Ridge, which is the north-eastern extreme of the Bosna Ridge in the

Strandzha Mountains Strandzha ( bg, Странджа, also transliterated as ''Strandja'', ; tr, Istranca , or ) is a mountain massif in southeastern Bulgaria and the European part of Turkey. It is in the southeastern part of the Balkans between the plains of T ...

. It is located at about 30 km south of

Burgas Burgas ( bg, Бургас, ), sometimes transliterated as ''Bourgas'', is the second largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the region of Northern Thrace and the fourth-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia, Plovdiv, and Varna, with a popu ...

and 14 km from the municipal centre

Primorsko Primorsko ( bg, Приморско ) is a town and seaside resort in southeastern Bulgaria, capital of homonymous municipality, part of Burgas Province. A well-known resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, it is located 52 km south of Burgas ...

on the

Bulgarian Black Sea coast The Bulgarian Black Sea Coast (), also known as the Bulgarian Riviera, covers the entire eastern bound of Bulgaria stretching from the Romanian Black Sea resorts in the north to European Turkey in the south, along 378 km of coast ...

History

The village was established in 1731 during the

Ottoman rule of Bulgaria The history of Ottoman Bulgaria spans nearly 500 years, from Bulgarian–Ottoman Wars, the conquest by the Ottoman Empire of the smaller kingdoms emerging from the disintegrating Second Bulgarian Empire in the late 14th century, to the Liberatio ...

. It was originally named Saramusa. In 1861 a group of

Circassians The Circassians (also referred to as Cherkess or Adyghe; Adyghe and Kabardian: Адыгэхэр, romanized: ''Adıgəxər'') are an indigenous Northwest Caucasian ethnic group and nation native to the historical country-region of Circassia in ...

, expelled from the

Caucasus The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range, have historically ...

, was settled near the village and established a settlement named Chenger. However, all attempts of the Ottoman authorities to convert them to farmers failed and Circassians indulged in looting, stealing cattle, rape and murder. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, the Circassians from Chenger formed bandit gangs and terrorised the local population. Some of them were mobilized in the army of Mehmed Ali Pasha that fought in north-eastern Bulgaria. After the general retreat of the Ottoman army in the winter of 1878 the Circassians from Chenger left the village and settled in Turkey.

Religion

The population of the village is Christian. There is a church named after Saint Elijah and a chapel.

Regular events

The village feast is celebrated the first Sunday of August or the last Sunday of July.

People from Veselie

Bozhidar Dimitrov Bozhidar Dimitrov Stoyanov ( bg, Божидар Димитров Стоянов, 3 December 1945 – 1 July 2018) was a Bulgarian historian, politician, and polemicist in the sphere of Medieval Bulgarian history, the Ottoman rule of Bulgaria and ...

, historian

Honour

Veselie Glacier in

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...

is named after the village.

Citations

References

* {{Primorsko Municipality Villages in Burgas Province