"My home town after all!" a General-Toshevo Travel Page by zlatiq

General Toshevo is located in NE Bulgaria in the region of South Dobruja. It is 24 km NE from Dobrich and about 40km from Black Sea.

Some facts about GT:
* It is a small town with a population of about 7000-8000 only.
* There is no trafic lights..although there a plenty of cars for such a small town.
* There are more and more social or cultural events.
* But there are many cafes/pubs.
*There is no cinema or theatre
*There are few banks on main street with ATM machines in front
*If you're headed towards the romanian border (Kardam/Negru Voda) you will drive thru here
* Typically for a small town people are very friendly, eager to help and always in a mood to party.

Why the white sparrow?
The white sparrow represents the hope for better life.
It comes from a short story written by one of the greatest bulgarian writers Yordan Yovkov who lived in Dobrudja at some point.

South Dobrudja has a very complicate history. As i am not a historian i'll leave it to Columbia Encyclopedia to tell the story, if you are up for some history of course

Reference > Columbia Encyclopedia
Dobrudja, historic region, ... in SE Romania and NE Bulgaria, between the lower Danube River and the Black Sea. Dobrudja comprises a low coastal strip and a hilly and forested inland. Largely agricultural, the region grows cereal crops, has vineyards, and breeds Merino sheep.
Dobrudja's original inhabitants were conquered in the 6th cent. B.C. by the Greeks, who founded colonies along the Black Sea coast. The region passed to the Scythians in the 5th cent. B.C. and to the Romans (who made it part of Moesia) in the 1st cent. B.C. As part of the Roman Empire and later of the Byzantine, it suffered frequent invasions from the Goths, Huns, Avars, and other tribes.
Part of the first Bulgarian empire (681-1018), it was reconquered by the Byzantines. In 1186 it was included in the second Bulgarian empire. Tatar raids were common in the 13th cent.
In the 14th cent. the region became an autonomous state under Bulgarian prince Dobrotich, from whom the name Dobruja derives.
Turks conquered the region in 1411, and for the next five centuries it remained a sparsely populated and barely cultivated territory of the Ottoman Empire.
In 1878 the Congress of Berlin awarded N Dobrudja to Romania and a strip of land later known as S Dobrudja to Bulgaria. As a result of the second Balkan War Bulgaria ceded (1913) S Dobrudja to Romania. The Treaty of Neuilly, signed in 1919 between Bulgaria and the Allies of World War I, gave all of Dobrudja to Romania. In 1940, however, the German-imposed Treaty of Craiova forced Romania to transfer S Dobrudja to Bulgaria%.