Boyadzhik

Boyadzhik (Bulgarian: Бояджик) is a village in Tundzha Municipality of Yambol Province, Bulgaria. Situated 22 km west of the city of Yambol, and 8 km southwest of the Bulgarian Air Force's Bezmer Air Base, at an elevation 153 m. Population 1,514. It is the birthplace of Ivan Atanasov, the father of John Vincent Atanasoff.[1]

Boyadzhik was the site of a massacre of 145 innocent Bulgarian civilians committed by irregular Ottoman troops (bashi-bazouk) on 11 May 1876.[2][3][4][5]

The massacre took place in the wake of the Bulgarian April Uprising, even though Boyadzhik did not participate in the insurrection and was located hundreds of kilometres away from the scene of any hostilities. The grandfather of the inventor of the first electronic digital computer, John Vincent Atanasoff, was among the victims.[6]

See also
  • List of villages in Yambol Province

Sources
  1. Boyadzhik Village. Tundzha Municipality website (in Bulgarian)
  2. "135 години от Бояджишкото клане през 1876 г." [135th Anniversary of the Boyadzhik Massacre]. Bulgarian Patriarchate. 18 May 2011.
  3. "The first electronic computer with a binary number system. Forgotten ABC Project". Sudo Null company. 2019.
  4. Atanasoff, John V. (1985). "The Beginning". Sofia: Narodna Mladezh Publishers. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) (Bulgarian version of his 1984 paper).
  5. "Дарителска кампания събира средства за мемориал на жертвите на Бояджишкото клане" [Fundraising Campaign for a Memorial of the Victims of the Boyadzhik Massacre]. BTA. 8 November 2021.
  6. "ATANASOFF, JOHN VINCENT". Who's Who in America 1995. Vol. 1 (A-K) (49th ed.). New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who. 1994. p. 129. ISBN 0837901596. Retrieved January 22, 2020 – via Internet Archive.

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