Dabnitsa

Dabnitsa Дъбница
Village
Dabnitsa
Coordinates: 41°34′N 23°50′E
Country	Bulgaria
Province	Blagoevgrad Province
Municipality	Garmen
Population  (15-12-2011[1])
• Total	1,652
	GRAO

Dabnitsa is a village in Garmen Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria.[2] It is situated in the Dabrash part of the Rhodope Mountains near Mesta river, 4 kilometers south-southeast of Garmen and 79 kilometers southeast of Blagoevgrad.

The area has been inhabited during the Thracian and Roman period and in the Second Bulgarian Empire. There are remains of an old fortress "St. Archangel" (Bulgarian: Свети Архангел, Sveti Arhangel) 1 kilometer north of the village from that period.[3] In Ottoman times it was called Dubniçe (Ottoman Turkish: دوبنيچه ).[4]

Most of the people in Dabnitsa are of Muslim Turks origin but often declare themselves as Turks, despite their mother language is Bulgarian.[5]

References

1. Таблица на населението по постоянен и настоящ адрес (in Bulgarian) 15 December 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2022
2. Guide Bulgaria Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, Accessed May 5, 2010
3. "An article about the fortress in Bulgarian". Archived from the original on 2012-05-18. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
4. "Dubniçe". Ansiklopedika. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
5. Михаил Иванов, Дискусии - България. Невидимите помаци. 15 Май 2014 г. сп. "Либерален преглед".