GRAMATIKOVO
The largest Strandja
village, having population of about 1000 is situated
34 km south from Tzarevo. There are several legends
about the origins of Gramatikovo. Differing in plot,
they all relate the founding of the village with medieval
intellectuals - monks from the local monasteries or
writers and theologians who accompanied Evtimii, the
famous Bulgarian Patriarch in his journey to Asia
where the Turks sent him on exile after they captured
and burnt the capital Veliko Tarnovo in 1393. Evidently
the first settlers' education was sufficiently impressive
to earn the village its name Gramatikovo ("gramatik"
meaning "man of grammar"). There are many
archaeological remains, however, especially traces
of full-cycle mining activity which show that the
site of the village has been populated since Antiquity.
The church of the Forty Martyrs from the XVIII century
is the oldest Gramatikovo church. It was burnt by
the Turks in 1877 and rebuilt after the Liberation.
A black marble plate can be seen on the stone bell-tower,
commemorating the names of the Gramatikovians who
died in the Balkan Wars and World War One. The school,
opened in early XIX century was one of the first in
Strandja. Since 1936 Gramatikovo has been the seat
of a forestry board, in which outstanding Bulgarian
sylviculturists have worked for the improvement of
the management of the Bulgarian forests as well as
experimented with introduction of new plants such
as the bamboo and the eucalyptus tree.
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HISTORIC SITES
1.[Koprivshtitza]
2.[Veliko
Turnovo]
3.[Bukovo]
4.[Brashlyan]
5.[Brodilovo]
6.[Gramatikovo]
7.[Zvezdetz]
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