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Çıtak (term)
''Çıtak'' is a term employed by several 17th-century sources primarily for groups of people inhabiting the region of Dobruja and other parts of the Balkans. The primary source that utilized the term was Ottoman Empire, Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi's (travelogue). Other 17th-century authors using this ethnonym included the Armenians in Crimea, Crimean-Armenian chronicler Khachatur of Kaffa. ''Çıtak'' is derived from the Oghuz languages, Oghuz verb root "çat-", meaning to pair or to breed. According to historian Arkadiusz Blaszczyk, the meaning implied by Evliya Çelebi was "half-breed" or "hybrid". Outside the region of Dobruja, Evliya Çelebi associated the term with the Rumelian Yörüks, such as those near Thessaloniki, who included Tatars among their ranks. Evliya Çelebi described the ancestry of the ''çıtak''s as a mixture of Tatars, Bulgarians, Moldavians, Wallachians, and the descendants of the Ottoman prince Süleyman Pasha (son of Orhan), Suleiman Pasha's retinu ...
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Dobruja
Dobruja or Dobrudja (; or ''Dobrudža''; , or ; ; Dobrujan Tatar: ''Tomrîğa''; Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and ) is a Geography, geographical and historical region in Southeastern Europe that has been divided since the 19th century between the territories of Bulgaria and Romania. It is situated between the lower Danube, Danube River and the Black Sea, and includes the Danube Delta, the Romanian coast, and the northernmost part of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, Bulgarian coast. The territory of Dobruja is made up of Northern Dobruja, which is a part of Romania, and Southern Dobruja, which is a part of Bulgaria. The territory of the Romanian region Dobrogea is organised as the counties of Constanța County, Constanța and Tulcea County, Tulcea, with a combined area of and, , a population of slightly less than 850,000. Its main cities are Constanța, Tulcea, Medgidia, and Mangalia. Dobrogea is represented by dolphins in the coat of arms of Romania. The Bulgarian region Do ...
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