The legend about Urdoviza
/Kiten/

The resort village Kiten is situated in one of the most famous and attractive spots on the Southern Black Sea coast, where the wooded Strandja’s spurs look at themselves in the clear sea depths. Very romantic is the picturesque nature beauty and the two comfortable, cozy beaches: the northern – Atliman and the southern – Karaagach. Between them, a peninsula with the mystic name Urdoviza, cuts deep into the sea. Up till the Bulgarian Liberation (1878) on the east end of the cape, over the rocky seacoast, was rising the wall of a fortress. This village-fortress goes back quite a long way. But who was its ruler, what was its end – nobody can say anything. Only the legends and the folk songs in this region tell us about it. They associate the village with the establishing of the area Hasekiyata as a privileged region during the Ottoman yoke. What is even more curious, is that on everybody’s lips is the name of one Bulgarian girl, whose fame was spreading for centuries from mouth to mouth among the local people thanks to her patriotism and self-sacrifice. This happened in the first years of the Ottoman conquest of Bulgaria. In the village-fortress Urdoviza one girl named Stana Urdovizka /as it is called in the people’s songs/ became famous for its beauty. The young woman was so pretty that she fascinated even the Ottoman sultan, he had no second thoughts and sent an army to bring the lovely Bulgarian girl to him. The sultan offered her to marry him and in one moment the eyes of the beauty, which were full of tears, glimmered with hope. She said to the sultan she will marry him but on one condition: to free of the sultan‘s taxes and duties the land of her birth that one horseman on a courser could manage to detour from sunrise till sunset. For the ruler of vast territories this wish was easy to fulfill and he gave his consent
And that’s how, in one early morning Urdovizka started from the peninsula on a courser, set out southwestwards in the direction of the Goshelek height, went down to Veleka on the opposite bank of the river. Then she turned westwards, upstream of the river, towards the adverse slopes So she rode all day long through the wooded hills of Strandja mountain, through dingles and hollows. The horse continuously bathed in a white lather. At dusk, after she went round the villages – Urdoviza, Urgari (Bulgari), Marzevo (Kondolovo), Gramatikovo, Zabernovo, Etika Stoilovo, Kolovo konak (Byala voda), Gyok tepe (Zvezden), Sarmotnik (Brashlyan) and several more in west direction, the young woman spurred her horse along the wooded Strandja ridge named Bosna-Urgash-Hadjiikata towards the Black Sea coast. But when she reached the bay north of Urdoviza, the courser fell down overtired and died. The beautiful girl from Urdoviza died too. From then on the people call the bay Atliman (the Bay of the Horse)
The issued on this occasion special sultan’s firman exempted the population from all taxes and duties. This region was called Hasekiyata or Asekiya. The Hasekiyan people enjoyed these privileges towards the first half of the 19th century
One of the theories is that this was the last blocked port, which exported supplies for Troia while under siege
You can still see remains of the ancient fortress Urdoviza – guard against pirates and bandits The first name of the resort village was Urdoviza called after the name of Stana Urdovizka - a beautiful Bulgarian woman, coveted by the Sultan; she managed to free from tax the whole Strandja (large Bulgarian region). She and her horse met their death at the Northern Bay of Kiten, which bears the name Atliman /or the Bay of the Horse/. This is a wonderful, always peaceful and quiet bay
Kiten is founded by settlers from Eastern Thrace (Edirne region) in 1932. One famous agronomist from the town of Vasiliko (Tzarevo), named Pencho Krotkov gave the present name of the town – Kiten (which means lovely, pretty, colorful), because when seen from a distance the houses in the village looked like a bunch of flowers. But the historical roots of the village extend way back into more ancient times, which is proved by the amphoras and vessels from the 6th century BC, found at the South beach