Varna İlinde İsmi Değiştirilen Türkçe Yerleşme Adları
The Changed Turkish Toponyms of Varna Province

Summary/Abstract: Toponymy is a useful and important tool for the national states in order to legitimize their territorial existence and occupation. Bulgaria, such like other newly founded national states in Balkan Peninsula throughout the 19th century, has begun to change the toponyms which indeed signify to the evidence of the long lasting Turkish – Ottoman existence in the region. Today, it is almost impossible to trace back settlements according to their Turkish original names through contemporary maps and official records, yet various Turkish place names are still in Turkish social memory and historical records. The main aim of this study is to create a map of the settlements in the nineteenth-century Bulgarian province of Varna and to identify and indicate their original names.

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