Rekonceptualizace založení a osídlení Vojvodova – od monogeneze k polygenezi, od lokalit k sítím : (na příkladu rodiny Pappových)
A Reconceptualization of the Founding and Settlement of Voyvodovo – From Monogenesis to Polygenesis, From Sites to Networks (Illustrated Through the Papp Family)

Summary/Abstract: This paper’s topic is the founding of Voyvodovo – the only Czech village in Bulgaria. In contrast with the classical conception, which takes Voyvodovo to be a village founded through the secondary migration of Czech-speaking Protestant inhabitants of Svatá Helena – a Czech village in what is today the Romanian Banat – the author documents the fact that the founders of Voyvodovo also included Bulgarians from the Banat (Paulicians), Serbs, and Slovaks. He thus offers for this village’s founding a divergent perspective that emphasizes the diversity of its founders (polygenesis). The second part of the article is a commented edition of a text by Katja Jankova Škărpanova (née Papova), the descendant of a family of Slovak immigrants from Nadlak. The article also positions this new source (richly supplemented with explanatory footnotes) within the broader context of existing works on Voyvodovo, and of the larger debates in the social sciences.

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