and from the Thracians their cultural heritage and traditions. At that time each of the three tribes avowed to a different religion. To unify the people of Bulgaria Christianity was declared the state religion in 865 AD and Bulgaria was baptized as a Christian state. However, in the Rhodopes, Christianity has been spreading three centuries before the baptizing of Bulgaria. It is well known that the bible was translated into the language of the Thracians � the Bible Besika.
Karabulak-Borino
In 1396 AD the Rhodopes, like all of Bulgaria, fell under the Turkish Yoke. From this period in the Jumaya Duzu region near Borino, there is a medieval necropolis (graveyard) where the first graves are Christian and later graves are Muslim. Most of Bulgaria was freed from the Ottoman Empire in 1878, however according to the Bulgarian-Turkish agreement of 1886 Borino remained in the Turkish Empire. After the Balkans War in 1912 Borino was finally returned to Bulgaria according to the Bucharest Treaty of 1913.
Until 1934, Borino carried the name Karabulak. There is a local legend for Kara Bula � translated from Turkish which means the black veil (a widow with a black veil). She arrived in the territory of Borino together with her four sons from the nearby village of Gjovren. Here the brothers started their families in four different places in the valley, thereby creating the four neighborhoods of the village. Unfortunately for the time period before 1934 there are no preserved written records for the naming, development, and history of the village. A large part of this information has been verbally passed down through the generations and preserved in local folklore and culture
