Sirakovo, Dobrich Province
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Sirakovo, Dobrich Province is a village in the municipality of General Toshevo
General Toshevo
General Toshevo is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Dobrich Province. Located in the historic region of Southern Dobruja, it is the administrative centre of the homonymous municipality and was named after the noted Bulgarian General Stefan Toshev...

, in Dobrich Province
Dobrich Province
Dobrich Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Southern Dobruja geographical region. It is divided into 8 municipalities with a total population, as of December 2009, of 199,705 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

, in northeastern Bulgaria
Bulgaria
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Sirakovo is a village in northeastern Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

. It is located in the municipality of General Toshevo
General Toshevo
General Toshevo is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Dobrich Province. Located in the historic region of Southern Dobruja, it is the administrative centre of the homonymous municipality and was named after the noted Bulgarian General Stefan Toshev...

, Dobrich
Dobrich
Dobrich is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, the administrative centre of Dobrich Province. With 91,030 inhabitants, as of February 2011, Dobrich is the ninth most populated town in Bulgaria, being the centre of the historical region of Southern Dobruja...

. The only office building is located in the village center. Here are housed the town hall and general store. Earlier there was a pub, called "Horemag", bakery and barber shop are closed a long time ago. Sirakovo residents are about a hundred. About 50 houses are in Sirakovo, 10 of them are inhabited. As in neighboring villages Velikovo and Sarnino where purchased English estate, foreigners started to show interest in Sirakovo. As a feature could be added to the poor condition of road network, which is the main reason for the exodus of young people and the lack of foreigners. In recent years settled in the village and the Roma families, who came with their numerous children to seek work as a shepherds, cowmen. But due to lack of work in the village, their number has decreased dramatically at the beginning of 2010. From 2009 in the village has purchased properties from 2 English and a German family. In May 2009 it was refurbished road from Preselentsi
Preselentsi
Preselentsi is a village in the municipality of General Toshevo, in Dobrich Province, in northeastern Bulgaria.-References:...

 to Spasovo which locals regarded as an incredible event.

History

Information on the history of the village are scarce. In one of the books historian Georgi Topalov noted that the settlement Etimele / old name of Sirakovo / mentioned in the Turkish record of 16 centuries. Most of today's residents are immigrants from Tulcea
Tulcea
Tulcea is a city in Dobrogea, Romania. It is the administrative center of Tulcea county, and has a population of 92,379 as of 2007. One village, Tudor Vladimirescu, is administered by the city.- History :...

, Romania
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 villages Lower Chamurla / Ceamurlia de Jos
Ceamurlia de Jos
Ceamurlia de Jos is a commune in the southeast of the Tulcea County of Romania. It has a total population of 2,620 and it has an area of 119,43 km². The Goloviţa Lake is located south of this commune...

 / Avian flu Chamurliya December Jos / Iseki and Cesme. When immigrants arrived here, found a local farm and several Romania
Romania
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n Tzinzar houses which were accommodated. Kutsovlasi addition, in 1941 the village had several Bulgarian family. One of the local landlords - Bratyanu provide a livelihood for a military regiment from Bucharest
Bucharest
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. Bulgarians also were wealthy people. One of them - Vassil Valkov, owned several shops in Constanța
Constanta
Constanța is the oldest extant city in Romania, founded around 600 BC. The city is located in the Dobruja region of Romania, on the Black Sea coast. It is the capital of Constanța County and the largest city in the region....

. The school in Sirakovo was built in 1946 in the beginning there was even a junior high classes. It has long been closed. The building, which was municipal property was purchased by locals and turned into a house. Church in the village never had. In the early 40's Romanian colonists had intended to erect a church, but after the return of Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

 dropped the idea. To stay here emigrants had more pressing task - to build houses and settle their lives to the new location. After the establishment of the communist regime in 1944 the building of the church is unthinkable. About a kilometer or two from Sirakovo has remained closed in 1955 Krushovo
Krushovo
Krushovo is a village in the municipality of Karnobat, in Burgas Province, in southeastern Bulgaria....

 village. There was no more than 20 houses. Waters are to be administratively Sirakovo mayoralty. In the 40 years of the 20th century and was rich Krushovo chiflikchii. Have functioned barbershop and a cafeteria. After 1945 he was interned Krushovo Velichko Barev - Agrarian activist. After closure of the village, he moved with his family in Spasovo.
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