Rositsa (Dobrich district)

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Rositsa is a village in Northeastern Bulgaria. It is located in General-Toshevo municipality, Dobrich district.

Geography
The village of Rositsa is located in the northernmost part of the region of Dobrich, between the villages of Krasen and Loznitsa, 5 km from the land border with the Republic of Romania (second border zone), 35 km from General Toshevo and 50 km from Dobrich.

History
Today's village of Rositsa consists of the neighborhoods Saraja (or Gorna Saradzha) and Shah Veli, which arose in the 16th century as separate Turkish chives, and later villages that bore the names of their founders. For the early history of the villages there is little data, but since then there has been a Muslim grave sanctuary - Shah Baba in Shah Veli neighborhood.

In 1832 at the time of Bea Emin Aga, a distant descendant of Shah Veli and heir of his farm, the first Bulgarians settled in the village. These were the families of the brothers Alexi, Enyo, Georgi and Dimitar Alexiev born in the village of Korudere, Lozengrad On the way to their homeland, they were darkened on the outskirts of the Turkish farmhouse, where they were spotted by Bea's workers. Leaded by their interests and Turkish official policy towards returning Bulgarians, Emin Aga invited them to remain in service as shepherds and deputy workers and they remained.

Around the same time, the first shepherds from Kotlensko and Slivensko came to the village to seek pasture for the sheep and livelihood for their families. One of them - Slav Todorov Haydutov (Slav kehaya), native of village A city

Emin Aga's farm in Shah Veli existed until the Liberation in 1878, when the village became Bulgarian. At that time, other more eligible Turks chose to seek refuge in Vlasko and later Turkey, and traded their lands for goods (sheep, goats, etc.) that they could take with them.

During the inter-Union war of 1913 the village of Rositsa, along with the whole of Dobrudzha, fell within the borders of Romania, originally under the Turkish name Saraca, and later renamed it Fundeni.

In 1941, under the Krayovsk Treaty, the village was returned to Bulgaria and on a proposal from more awake residents received its current name Rositsa.

Demography

Number of population
The population of the village of Rositsa at the last official census in 2011 is 364 people, and according to the current statistics of NSI as of 2014 is 330 people.

The trend in population numbers has been declining since the mid-20th century, when the village numbers 2155. As a result of the forced collectiveisation and the consolidation of agricultural land after 1946 in two TTCs, and later the APC, reduces the need for labour in the village. At the same time, in cities is gaining momentum in planning industrialization. Under the supervision of the Bulgarian Communist Party begins mass exodus, mainly in the direction of the municipal center General Toshevo, the district