The territory of the Municipality of Gen. Toshevo is a land with ancient history and culture. For thousands of years, intensive demographic and migration processes have taken place in it, which predetermine the special archeological, historical and ethnographic specifics of the region.
The first historical information about the municipal center General Toshevo dates back to 1573 in the famous Turkish tax register of sheep breeders (dzhelepkeshani). There the village is mentioned with the name Kasam.
In 1926, the Romanian authorities proclaimed the settlement the district center of St. Demetrius, and the village was officially named St. Demetrius (Stantul Dumitru).
The name of the settlement has been changed many times. On June 27, 1942, the village of Kasam was renamed General Toshevo.
By Government Decree № 38 on January 30, 1960, General Toshevo was declared a city.
The patron of the city is Gen. Stefan Toshev, a prominent Bulgarian military chief and strategist.
The city's holiday is November 8 (St. Demetrius - old style).
However, the history of life and events in these lands began long before that. Once the area of today's municipality of General Toshevo was an important center of ancient cultures and civilizations, part of the border system of some of the most powerful empires of antiquity. There were settlements, fortresses and places of worship, important trade routes crossed. The finds date back to the Thracian-Roman era. It is also known that on the territory of the municipality there were several Roman fortresses. There are data for two sanctuaries from Thracian-Roman times near the villages of Spasovo and Sredina, a Thracian moundless necropolis near the village of Vasilevo, an old Bulgarian necropolis (VIII-X century) near the village of Velikovo. In 1963, in the vicinity of the village of Krasen, a cultivated hand made of ivory was discovered, III - IV century AD.
Dobrudja as a whole is a zone of merging of religions, traditions and nationalities, within a real multicultural and interethnic cradle, based on understanding and respect. This ethnic, religious and cultural community determines the attractiveness of Wanderlust-type tourist products, based on the rich historical and cultural heritage and proximity to the seafront.
Dobrudja is a territory inhabited by many ethnic, ethnographic and religious communities. Located at the crossroads of two worlds - East Asian and Western European - it is where they communicate on European soil.
The turbulent historical destiny of Dobrudja and the great migration movements have gathered in this region migrants from almost all parts of Bulgaria. Coming in the XIX - XX century from Thrace, the Balkans and Northern Dobrudja, they bring with them the peculiarities of their way of life and traditions. For centuries, different ethnographic groups have been in the process of active cultural exchange and interaction. This specificity of the district gives grounds for Mihail Arnaudov to note that "Dobrudja gives us a miniature ethnographic picture of half of Bulgaria".
