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| Nedelino | ||
| Oblast | Smolyan | |
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| Residents | 4.339 (2020) | |
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Nedelino is a city in Smolyan Oblast in Southwest Bulgaria.
background
Nedelino is in the Rhodope Mountains. The city is located on both banks of the Nedelinska River. It is 15 km from Zlatograd, 30 km from Ardino and 60 km from the regional centers of Smojan and Kardshali. The mountains Sveti Ilija (Holy Iljia) and Sveta Nedelja (Holy Nedelja, Holy Sunday) are the pride of the city. According to tradition, Ilija and Nedelja were siblings who lived during the time of the Turkish yoke. They did not want to accept Islam and were burned at the stake. Especially on the feast day Sveta Nedelja (Holy Sunday), every 6 May - Gergjovtag (St. George's Day) or Adreles (that's how the festival in Nedelino is called) - a small folk festival takes place here.
Nedelino is known for his two-part singing. This is a specific singing that does not exist anywhere else and is sung in fourths and seconds. Nikolaj Kaufmann was the first to discover the phenomenon of Nedelinski Two-Voice Singing and was the first to write articles about it.
getting there
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Tourist Attractions
- Sveta Nedelja
The mountain is 7 km away from Nedelino, near the road to Zlatograd, in the stretch between Nedelino and Starzewo. The mountain is lonely, without a saddle and towers over the other mountain heights and mountains. It offers a wide overview and wide view, the leveled ridge of the Sveta Nedelja mountain is covered by centuries-old oak forest. The monastery building and the other auxiliary structures are hidden in it, which are surrounded by a stone castle wall, remains of stairs, paths and others. The mountain and the castle were a formidable defensive structure against the Turkish conquerors. That is why the castle was burned down and devastated during the first raids. Sveta Nedelja is 865m high. When the weather is nice, you can see the highest mountain on the island of Samothraki in Greece and the Aegean Sea from the mountain.
- Turchin Bridge (the Turkish bridge)
There are twelve Roman bridges in the city of Nedelino. That is why the legends associated with them are many. Tradition still lives today about the death of a young woman, whose husband, a bridge master, walled her shadow into the foundation wall because "things built during the day collapsed at night". The story of the small bridge, which is only 3 km west of the city and is called the Turchin Bridge by the locals, is interesting. Once a Turkish pasha (ruler) came to town and settled his army in the meadows in the Kuljata area. He ordered the residents of the village and the neighborhoods to be gathered at the little bridge. The Janissaries (the elite troops in the Ottoman Empire) stood with bare curved swords like a living wall on the bridge, and the inhabitants of Nedelino were forced one by one to move from the left bank to the right bank. There was a big pile of fezes (headgear) and turbans. It is popularly said that a lot of heads were cut off and thrown into the waters of the Nedelinska River. Only those who accepted the Turkish faith remained alive. Hence the saying in Nedelino “the turban or the head”.
- Cultic places
1. Sanctuary on the Boshiza peak / 1241 m above sea level / Kostadin area, 1000 m northeast of the village of Burewo. Dating - Late Bronze Age / XII century BC BC / until the end of the 14th century AD Topographical continuity of the cultic place - over the course of more than 2600 years.
2. Sanctuary on the mountain Sveti Ilija (Holy Ilija) / 1002 m above sea level /, 2700 m north of Gorno Nedelino. Dating - Early Iron Age / XI century BC BC / until the end of the 14th century AD. Realized topographical continuity of the cultic place over the course of more than 2000 years.
3. Sanctuary on the mountain Sveta Nedelja / 868.8 m above sea level /, 2000 m south of Nedelino. Dating - in the VI century AD, a Christian temple, a castle wall, economic rooms, etc. were built, which functioned until the end of the 14th century. Probable beginning of the cultic complex - Late Bronze Age - Early Iron Age / XIII - X century BC Chr./
4.Kurbanischte - 3500m from Sredetz. Dating - Middle Ages / X - XIV centuries AD / The beginning of the function of the cultic place was not determined.
- Villages
1. The Marina / Sveta Marina - Holy Marina / 1800 m north of Nedelino. Dating - Middle Ages. During agricultural work, the following were found: fragmentary pottery, whole clay vessels - Dolia, a broken furnace for the burning of ceramic vessels, graves built and covered with stone plates, Byzantine and Venetian coins from XII - XIII centuries.
2. The Selischteto area - in the immediate vicinity northwest of Sredetz. Dated from fragmentary pottery from the High Middle Ages and the Late Middle Ages / X-XIV centuries /
- Chapels
1. Mountain Sveti Ilija - / 1002 m above sea level / Destroyed but clearly visible wall and an apse part of a small Christian building - chapel. According to the ceramic, the chapel is dated within far too wide limits. Full exploratory research is required.
- Necropolis
The post office - in the center of the town of Nedelino, on the right bank of the river. During the construction of a retaining wall, burials in tombs with stone slabs were uncovered. These were examined on May 26, 1973 by the archaeologist Nikola Damjanov. Dating - burials in graves with stone slabs / XII - XIV centuries / Nedelino municipality is the first in the Smolyan region to include its objects in the automated information system “Archaeological Map of Bulgaria”. All archaeological objects in the municipality of Nedelino are shown on the archaeological map of the municipality.
