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[QUOTE = Abriekman; 6997124] Имам въпрос. Ако българските турци са се преместили от Алфатар в Украйна, защо са станали българи по фамилии и самоличност или в този случай са били българи? [/ ЦИТАТ]
Dear boy, there are no Turks who have moved to Ukraine. The only Bulgarian population During the Middle Ages the settlement was in a period of prosperity. This area is the center of the Bulgarian kingdom, located between the capitals Pliska and Preslav, and Drustar / in the tenth century Drustar was the Danube residence of the Bulgarian khans and patriarchs /. Remains of a stone fortress in the Kilnik area / military-strategic, administrative and religious center /, medieval settlements and fortresses in the Karaula, Suhata Cheshma areas, as well as a monastic colony along the Kanagyol riverbed - the center of rock monasteries - have been found. dated to the tenth century.
For the epoch of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom in this region there are no serious methodological researches.
According to incompletely confirmed data at the beginning of the Ottoman expansion, the village had more than 700 houses. The earliest document / from 1573-1574 / shows that the population is purely Bulgarian. As such, it is preserved until the Liberation. During the second half of the 15th-17th centuries, significant demographic changes took place in Dobrogea. As a result of the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774, many Bulgarian villages in these lands changed their appearance. Some of the inhabitants of this region emigrated to Russia and Wallachia
In August 1773, during the war, 400 families from the village emigrated to the Russian Empire. The following year, they founded the village of Olshanka in the lands designated for the then-emerging Bug Cossack Army. Disappointed with the barren lands, many Bulgarians decided to return to their homeland, but were repressed and forced to stay in Olshanka. After the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829, settlers from Sliven and Yambol settled in Alfatar. At the time of the liberation from Turkish rule it had 2,039 inhabitants and was among the largest villages in Dobrudzha.