ЕТНОГРАФСКИТЕ (РЕГИОНАЛНИТЕ) ГРУПИ В СТРАНДЖА
ETHNOGRAPHIC (REGIONAL) GROUPS IN STRANDZA

Summary/Abstract: Three main groups of Bulgarian population may be distinguished on the territory of Strandza in the end of XIX and the beginning of XX c: ruppi, tronki and zagorci. It is possible also to use the term regional group (ethnographic group), as each of these groups is concentrated in a definite region. The ruppi in Strandza inhabit the basins of rivers Rezovska, Veleka and Jasnopoljanska. A. great part from the Bulgarian population in the district of Vizen, Bunarhisar and the villages near Lozengrad, situated on the east from the line Malko Turnovo — Lozengrad, up to 1912/13 belongs to the same group. The tronki are the second in number representatives of an ethnographic group of Bulgarian population in Strandza. They live in settlements in the lower reaches of river Fakijska and slowly distribute to the basin of river Veleka and to Lozengrad town. A great part from the Bulgarian population in this town, as well as in the villages to the west of Lozengrad, up to 1912/13 belonged to the same group. The zagorci inhabit the northernmost parts of Strandza and mainly the region, known as Ravna gora or Ravnogorije. Thus they appear to be the northern neighbours of the ruppi group. In Southeast Thracia there was a compact group of Bulgarian villages, inhabited by zagorci in Chataldza region and very near to Istambul itself, who lived there up to the Balkan War.

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