According to local legend, Ottoman conquerors destroyed the originally existing Bulgarian village and church.

Under Sultan Bayezid II's order, a caravanserai for traveling merchants was then built, around which a Turkish hamlet called Uzunca Ova (Uzundzhovo) arose.

There was one large, fortress-like caravanserai, similar to what can only be that seraglio in Tatar Pazarcık, built by Maktul Ibrahim Pasha.

[1] Austrian historian Hammer also confirms this assertion, with documents that show Sinan had issued 30,000 qirsh in 1593 for the construction of a mosque, caravanserai, imaret, and bathhouse in what became known as Uzundzhovo.

[2] Bulgarian scholars such as Ivan Bogdanov dispute Sinan's involvement, as Uzundzhovo had been well-established as a religious judge's seat by 1566.