The name of the town Kotel is mentioned for the first time in a Turkish document from 1486 year.
In the second half of the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth centuries, nearly one-half million head of sheep were said to have been raised by the Kotel shepherds up there, far to the north east, in the rolling planes of Dobroudzha. Endless caravans of oxen carried shorn wool to Kotel to be turned into homespun abas and hoddens.
Lucrative contracts for cloth deliveries to the Ottoman army had provided Kotel's population with considerable privileges and had given them self-confidence and a spirit of freedom-loving and independence.
