Trastenik
Trastenik
Тръстеник | |
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UTC+3 (EEST) | |
| Postal Code | 5857 |
| Area code | 06551 |
Trastenik (Bulgarian: Тръстеник pronounced [trɐstɛˈnik], also transliterated Trǎstenik) is a town in central northern Bulgaria, part of Dolna Mitropoliya municipality, Pleven Province. It lies 18 kilometres northwest of Pleven and 30 kilometres south of the Danube, between the Vit and Iskar rivers.
Although several ancient mounds and traces of
In Ottoman Turkish, it was known as Tirsinik under Ottoman rule and was the hometown of Ahi of Niğbolu, who was an Ottoman poet (1473-1517),[1] and Ismail Aga of Tirsinik (?-1806), who was a regional power holder (Ayan) in Rusçuk.[2] During the Ottoman rule, the town was a small village known as Marashka Trastenik, famous for paying its taxes in horses. There is an annual festival held in the town on January 20 to celebrate a legend of the day that the horse population, which had been decimated by disease, was replenished by an old mare past her breeding prime, allowing the village to pay its tax.[3] There is a historical place called Manafski Grobište.
References
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-02. Retrieved 2015-07-01.
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- ^ "Иванов ден, Кьорава кобила в град Тръстеник" [Ivanov day of the mare windfall in the town of Trustenik] (in Bulgarian). Ministry of Culture of Republic of Bulgaria. 2016.
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