page_title: Razhevo
section_title: In Eastern Rumelia and Bulgaria
hierarchical_section_title: Razhevo / History / In Eastern Rumelia and Bulgaria
caption_attribution_description: Български: Сградата на кметството и читалището в село bg:Ръжево, bg:България English: Municipality hall of the village of Razhevo, Plovdiv Province, Bulgaria
context_page_description: Razhevo or sometimes Ruzhevo is a village in central Bulgaria, part of Kaloyanovo Municipality, Plovdiv Province.
context_section_description: After the Russo-Turkish War, and because of the Treaty of Berlin, Razhevo became a part of Eastern Rumelia. The villagers, famous in the region for their conservative tempers, unlike their neighbors in the villages Razhevo Konare and Chernozemen, did not actively participate in the political life of Eastern Rumelia or Bulgaria, nor in the resistance movement, but, loyal to their country, decided to join the Bulgarian army. There, they participated in the heroic march from the Turkish border to the Serbian border to stop the invading Serbian soldiers near Slivnitsa. During the First and Second Balkan Wars, and World War I, the villagers fought for Bulgarian reunification in the Ninth Plovdiv Infantry Regiment of the Second Thracian Infantry Division. Two citizens from Razhevo were volunteers in the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps.
  In the Second Balkan War, the Second Infantry Division caused severe damage to the Serbian army near the train station Udovo and Krivolak. During World War I, it participated in the Battles of Doiran in 1913, 1916, 1917, and 1918. They also participated in the Battle of the Crna Bend (1916), and in World War II, it participated in the Stratsinsko-Kumanovska Operation (Bulgarian: Страцинско-Kумановска Операция), and the villagers fought in the battles at Stratsin and Strazhin.
  During 1941-44, during the so-called Partisan Movement, the citizens of Razhevo remained loyal to the government. The Partisans Atanas Nikolov Chomakov (Bulgarian: Атанас Николов Чомаков) and Mincho Nikolov Rangelov (Bulgarian: Минчо Николов Рангелов) from Padarsko were betrayed by Rangel Dokov and the mayor of the village Lazar Chonov, trapped in Dokov's barn, and, after a short fight, in which Razhevo citizens such as Krum Vitanov Hristov participated, captured. In the small park in Razhevo there is a statue of Chomakov.
caption: The library in Razhevo; behind it, the village church.
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