Rusion

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Rusion - Rusköy - Kaletepe
Humans have lived here continuously from the 30th century BC. The first inhabitants were the Proto-thracian and Thracians tribes and a lot of thracian coins of the Odrises find here.[6][7] Since 580 BC to 1359 AD first it was a central part of the Odrysian kingdom of Thrace, after that was ruled by: the Persian Empire, the Macedonian Empire, the Roman Empire (incuding i.е. Byzantine Empire), the Bulgarian Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Latin Empire, again the Bulgarian Empire and the Byzantine Empire.[8][9] The thracian town on Via Egnatia mentioned by Klaudios Ptolemaios and by many others[10] during over of 1900 years living before the turks invasion have the names: Zorlanis (and Zerlanis, Zorlanae, Zorlanea), Topiris (and Topir, Topiro, Topirion), Kission (and Kissos, Kissan, Kissupolis), Rusion (and Russa, Roussa, Rossion) [3][4][5][11][12] in greek ρουζ - rous mean rouge. Here is the the place of the remarkable Battle of Rusion where the bulgarian Tzar Kaloian defeted the Latin empire army in 1206 [13], and again spread the bulgarian control over the fortress that begin form the first bulgarian conquest in 538 AD and the nexts: of khan Zabergan in 559, bulgarian and slavs in 617, 623 and 626, Ceaser Tervel in 705 and 717-718, Great khan Krum in 813, Tzar Simeon the Great in 896, 913, 921, 922 and 923 , bulgarian troops in 1047, Tzar Ivan Asen II in 1235-1236, Tzar Michail Shishman in 1328. The castle of Rusion was stay on the hill about 4km southwest of center of the present Kesan and some ruins still exist around 40.826272N 26.679587E at so caled "Kaletepe" (tur.- Fortress hill).[4]
Rusion fallen not easy under the invasion of the Osman Turks - first In 1359 fortress was taken for a short time by ınvaders of Gazi Süleyman Paşa and finally - in 1362 by Lala Şahin Paşa.[5][11] In the Ottoman Empire Rusion renamed as Rusköy (tur. Rus village)[3][12] the name derived from the medieval fortress-town,[4] and later - to Keşan (from gr. Kissos, Kissupolis)[14] belonged to the Galipoli Sanjak, and as such part of the Rumelia Eyalet and then the Province of the Kapudan Pasha. It was a nahiya center in Enez kaza at first, later was bounded to İpsala kaza. It was transferred to the Eyalet of Edirne in 1530. According to government turk data in 1894 here are 2 orthodox churches and christian population in Keşan is about 25 000 bulgarians and greeks.[6]
Christian governing was restored by the Russians in 1829 and in 1878, by the Bulgarians between 1912 and 1913 (on 14 November 1912 bulgarian Hayrabol detachment commanded by colonel Petar Salabashev[15] take the town [16] and Tzar Ferdinand reside some days here[5]), by the Greeks between 30 of July 1920 and 1922. It was ceded to Republic of Turkey on 19 November 1922. Keşan district reached its present borders after the separation of nahiya of Enez in 1953. Huge part of the population are the bulgarian speaking muslims, the relocatians from Bulgaria and Greece, gipsies, türkmenlers etc.[6][7]

References
3 Kenneth M. Setton, Norman P. Zacour, ‎Harry W. Hazard, A History of the Crusades: The Impact of the Crusades on the Near East Wiscosin University Press 1985, p. 545
4 Hakan T. Karateke, Evliyā Çelebī’s Journey from Bursa to the Dardanelles and Edirne, From the Fifth Book of the Seyāḥatnāme, Leiden - Boston 2013, p. 197
5 Hakan Eşme, Keşan'ın Tarihçesi
6 Keşan Tarihi - Ofitial cite of the Keşan belediyesi
7 Keşan - Rumeli Balkan Edirne haberleri, Trakya-net.com/
8 Simeonova, Liliana V., Keşan (Russion) Ortaçağda Via Egnetia’da önemli bir kale, Keşan Sempozyumu (2003 : Keşan). - Keşan, 2006, s.: 252-255
9 Andreas Külzer, Tabula Imperii Byzantini. vol. 12 (TIB12) Ostthrakien (Eurōpē), Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Vienna 2008, p. 620-622
10 Miller, Tabula Peutingeriana -
11 Mete ESİN. Keşan Bahânesiyle-1, 20.04.2006
12 Mete ESİN. Keşan Bahânesiyle-2, 20.04.2006
13 Проф. дин Николай Овчаров, Цар Калоян отбива Марица заради битка
14 Walter E. Kaegi, Jr., Byzantinische forschungen, Amsterdam 2011, p. 187
15 Симеон Радев, Това, което видях от Балканската война, C 1993
16 Красимир узунов, Генча Начев, Забравената война, 2013
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