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Български Kotel was inhabited at the beginning of the Ottoman domination by Bulgarians seeking salvation from the surrounding towns and villages. The earliest information about it is recorded in a register dating back to 1486. During the first centuries of foreign domination, it was inhabited by dervendzhii (guardians of the passages through the Balkan) and djelepi (livestock traders in this case sheeps). Against these obligations to the central government, Kotel gained comparative independence - municipal self-government, self-elected local governor, exemption from some taxes, a ban on settling Turks in it. This, as well as the economic upheaval of the 18th-19th centuries, the trade contacts, the zealous Orthodox faith of the Kotlentsi (many of which traveled to Jerusalem and Sveta Gora), contributed to the transformation of the city into an active center of Bulgarian culture and enlightenment, autonomy and national freedom. From Kotel there are the Bulgarian Revival captain Georgi Mamarchev (Russian army officer), Georgi Stoykov Rakovski (one of the main ideologists of our national liberation movement), archimandrite Neofit Hilendarski Bozveli, Dr. Petar Beron (the compiler of the famous " Sofronii Bishop Vrachanski (the brightest representative of the Kotel Literary School, rewriting Slavic Bulgarian History, brought personally by Paisii Hilendarski in 1764), Stefan Izvorski, General Ivan Kichelski, Dr. Vassil Beron, Gavril Krustevich, Prince Stefan Bogoridi Atanas Bogoridi and others. The city also gives many voivods, haidouts, revolutionaries, volunteers, chetniks in the chetas of Hadji Dimitar, Panayot Hitov, Hristo Botev.
In Kotel there are preserved relics of the past - a sarcophagus with the remains of Georgi S. Rakovski, the heart of Dr. Petar Beron, manuscripts of Rakovski, St. Sofronii, Bishop Vrachanski, a power of Levski issued to Yordan Stoyanov. The rich history of Kotel, Renaissance architecture and wonderful surroundings make it a desirable destination for national and international tourism.
| Altanla Stoyan (1767 - unknown), Voivode and Haidutin | Krastiu Mirski (1852 – 1920), Scholar and public figure |
| Asen Papadopov (1864 - unknown), Bulgarian military , General-Major | Krastiu Rakovski (1873 - 1941), Diplomat, political and state figure |
| Anastas Granitski (1825 – 1879) ,Encyclopedicist | Marko Lerinski (1862-1902), Revolutionary, Voivode |
| Anastas Kipilovski (1802 – 1870) ,Renaissance scholar | Neofit Bozveli (about 1785 - 1848), A monk, a scholar and a public figure |
| Atanas Petrov (1865 – unknown) ,Bulgarian military , General-Major | Nikola Boev (1886 - 1950), Neurologist |
| Atanas Bogoridi (1788 - 1826) ,Physician, Renaissance scholar | Nikola Pisarov (1867 - 1937), Bulgarian military officer, Major-General |
| Bozhil Raynov (1857 - 1946), Teacher, Education figure, Journalist, Translator, Public figure | Nikola Tahtunov (1873 - 1947), Bulgarian painter |
| Bozhil Makaveev (1877 – 1966), Teacher, Public figure | Petar Abrashev (1866 – 1930), Politician |
| Boncho Boev (1859 – 1934), Еconomist, Academician | Petar Bakalov (1879 - 1964), Bulgarian paleontologist |
| Boris Mateev (1883 – 1969), Politician and revolutionary, member of the Dobrudja Revolutionary Organization | Petar Beron (1795 - 1871), Scientist, encyclopedic, education figure, pedagogue, naturalist, physician and philosopher |
| Vasil Beron (1824 – 1909), Physician, Scholar, Public Figure | Petar Genov (1882 – 1956), Poet and Transaltor |
| Vasil Delov (1861 – 1938), Bulgarian military , General-Major | Petar Mateev (1850 - 1940), Bulgarian public figure and diplomat |
| Vasil Jechev (1875 – 1963), Teacher, Naturalist, Creator of the country's first provincial museum of natural history | Rafail Jechev (1891 - 1945), Bulgarian military officer, Lieutenant General |
| Vasil Kiselkov (1887 – 1973), Literary critic and translator | Sava Kirov (1883 – 1949, Sofia), Revolutionary from IMROO |
| Vasil Petrov Hadzhivalkov - Chardakliev (1802 – 1882) ,Volunteer captain, co-organizer and leader of the 1st and 3rd Braille riots | Rusi Rusev (1896 – 1979), Politician |
| Veliko Gochev (1867 – 1948), Famous bulgarian teacher, author of textbooks | Sofronii Vrachanski (1739-1813), Revival writer, teacher and public figure |
| Gavril Krustevich (1820 – 1898), Scholar, general governor of Eastern Rumelia | Stefan Angelov (1878 - 1964), Veterinary, a microbiologist, an academic |
| Geno Kirov (1866 – 1944), Dramatic artist | Stefan Bogoridi (1770-1859), an Ottoman politician |
| Georgi Genov (1883 – 1967), Political figure, lawyer and public figure | Stefan Izvroski (1815 - 1875), Renaissance teacher, translator and poet |
| Georgi Iliev (1811-1899), Bulgarian revolutionary | Stefan Manov (1880-1959), Politician, journalist and public figure |
| Georgi Kandilarov (1851 - 1943), Education figure | Stefan Hadjipetrov (1882 – 1936), Former mayor of Burgas |
| Georgi Mamarchev (about 1786 – 1846), Revolutionary | Stoyan Belinov (1872 - 1944), Physician, an otorhinolaryngologist |
| Georgi Pavlov (1881 - 1945), Scientist, veterinarian and public figure | Stoyan Nokov (1872 - 1959), Teacher |
| Georgi Stoykov Rakovski (1821 – 1867), Revolutionary, national hero | Hristo Iurdanov (1864 - 1924), Military figure |
| Grisha Kamburov (1986 - 2014), Lawyer, director of the Bulgarian Media Union | |
| Dimityr Tishin (1913 – 1992), Writer | |
| Dobri Bojilov (1884 - 1945), financier and Prime Minister of Bulgaria during 1943 - 1944 | |
| Evstrati Dachev (1875-1903), a revolutionary from IMROO | |
| Ivan Hadjipetrov (1834 – 1909), Former mayor of Burgas | |
| Ivan Belinov (1859 – 1902), Politician | |
| Ivan Kishelski (about 1820 – 1880), Public and political figure | |
| Iliya Yosifov (1912 - 1993), Opera singer and pedagogue | |
| Krystio Stanchev (1879 – 1944), Journalist |
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