Star chitak (Bulgarian: Стар читак) is a village in Ardino Municipality, Kardzhali Province, southern-central Bulgaria. It is located 193.057 kilometres (119.960 mi) southeast of Sofia.^[1] It covers an area of 1.505 square kilometres and as of 2013 it had a population of 25 people.^[1] The Inhabitants once was Çıtak Turks (Čitaci). Evliya Çelebi described the Çıtak Turks (Chitak), in his Seyahatname as "a mixture of various peoples such as Bulgarian-Greek-Tatar-Moldovan" and even gave examples from their language, some of them, went at the 1877-1878 Ottoman-Russian War, Balkan wars 1912-1913 and after the WW1 1914-1915 wars immigrated to Anatolia used to live in Ankara, others to Tekirdağ and Çanakkale provinces.^[2]

Star chitak
Village
Star chitak
Coordinates: 41°40′01″N 25°13′01″E / 41.667°N 25.217°E / 41.667; 25.217
Country	Bulgaria
Province	Kardzhali Province
Municipality	Ardino
Area
• Total	1.505 km2 (0.581 sq mi)
Population  (2013)
• Total	25
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)