Ribnovo is an isolated mountainous village in Garmen Municipality , in Blagoevgrad Province , Bulgaria . It is situated in the Dabrash part of the Rhodope Mountains at 1152 meters altitude, 14 kilometers north-northwest from Garmen and 64 kilometers southeast of Blagoevgrad by air. The village can be reached by a 20 kilometers asphalt mountainous road from Ognyanovo through the villages Skrebatno and Osikovo .
8-511: Ribnovo has long history. Remains of an ancient necropolis have been unearthed near the village. In the Ottoman documents from 1478 year the village is described as "settlement with 81 non-Muslim households". In 1900 year Vasil Kanchov described the village as one inhabited with 560 Bulgarian-Muslim people, living in 105 households. Nowadays the village still grows and people build new houses. There aren't any industrial subjects in this big village and
16-633: A director of Bulgarian schools in Serres district (1891–1892), a headmaster of Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki (1892–1893), а chief school inspector of the Bulgarian schools in Macedonia (1894–1897). After 1898 Kanchov returned to Bulgaria and went into politics. In the beginning of 1902 he became an educational minister of Bulgaria. He travelled extensively after 1888, visiting and researching all over Macedonia. Vasil Kanchov, who went to Istanbul with
24-449: Is an amateur football club "Rodopa", playing in the regional league. The wedding customs are unique to the village. It has been preserved from the old Bulgarian customs and it has been influenced by the Islamic traditions. The wedding season is during autumn and winter. The festivities last for 5 days which includes a lot of singing and dancing in the center of the village. On the second day
32-679: The Russian empire . During the Serbo-Bulgarian War 1885 he suspended his education and took part in the war. Later, he went on to pursue studies at universities in Munich and Stuttgart , but in 1888 he interrupted his education again due to an illness. In the following years Kanchov was a Bulgarian teacher in Macedonia . He was a teacher in the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki (1888–1891),
40-400: The arable land is limited. Many people go to work in other settlements in the summer or abroad. In Ribnovo people are Muslim and there are two mosques. In the high school " Yordan Yovkov " study more than 500 students. There is a kindergarten and a community center with a public library. There are two medical specialists, who provide health care - a general practitioner and a dentist. There
48-561: The bride's face is painted white with sequins. |website = https://www.ribnovo.net/ Vasil Kanchov Vasil Kanchov (26 July 1862 – 6 February 1902) was a geographer , ethnographer and teacher who served as Minister of Education of Bulgaria . Vasil Kanchov was born in Vratsa . Upon graduating from High school in Lom, Bulgaria , and later he entered the University of Harkov , then in
56-695: The financial support of a Bulgarian magazine at the beginning of 1899, was planning to research and observe the European side of the Marmara, but without giving a full reason, he postponed his visit to the aforementioned region and decided to wander around the Bulgarian settlements on the Anatolian side of the sea Manyas Lake . He wrote down almost every moment of his 9-day trip. He first went from Istanbul to Mudanya , then to Bursa , then to Karacabey , Bandırma and finally to Gönen , interviewed Bulgarian families, examined
64-461: The structures of the villages, researched places of worship. The things they wrote had the characteristics of what we can call the "travel book". Vasil Kanchov was killed in his office by a psychopath. About him one of the founders of IMRO - Ivan Hadzhinikolov , said that Kanchov once had claimed that he came as a teacher in Thessaloniki to Bulgarianize Macedonia. Hadzhinikolov replied that he
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