Bulgaria and the Bulgarians through Slovene Eyes (1850 – 1914)
Bulgaria and the Bulgarians through Slovene Eyes (1850 – 1914)

Summary/Abstract: During the time of socialist Yugoslavia Slovene historians devoted considerable attention to the Yugoslav movement before WWI, but their focus was on the Slovene relations with Croats and Serbs. It was only rarely mentioned that Slovene intellectuals and leaders until WWI considered the Bulgarians to be Yugoslavs as well and they looked with great sympathy to them. The author illustrates the Slovene interest for Bulgaria by Anton Bezenšek’s book Bulgaria and Serbia (1897) and presents the publications of the two major Slovene newspapers Slovenski narod and Slovenec on the Bulgarians and Bulgaria since 1870 until WW I. If the two newspapers in their assessments of Russian policy on the Balkans, Serbo-Bulgarian relations and inner situation in Bulgaria often disagreed, both gave a full support to Bulgarian struggle against Ottoman rule and national independence claiming that the Bulgarians belong to the same “great Yugoslav nation” as the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

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