Etnology and boundaries – crossborder activities and use of the Cultural heritage in Bulgaria- Serbian Border Cover Image

Eтнология и граници – транс- гранични дейности и употреба на културното наследство в българо-сръбското пограничие
Etnology and boundaries – crossborder activities and use of the Cultural heritage in Bulgaria- Serbian Border

Author(s): Ivaylo Markov, Desislava Pileva
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Economic history, Oral history, Social history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: border zone; fair; Strezimirovtsi; policy; Cultural heritage

Summary/Abstract: The research attention in the article particular is directed to review and analysis of the Bulgarian-Serbian border fairs, seen as an element of life in the border area. The aim is to present only one aspect of a larger study of public policy, cross-border activities and use of cultural heritage as a resource for local development in border regions. The study has as its basis the conducted from the authors fieldwork in the village of Strezimirovtsi divided by the border of the Neuilly Treaty of 1919. Lower Strezimirovtsi is administratively part of Trun Municipality, Republic of Bulgaria and Upper Strezimirovtsi belongs to the Surdulica municipality Republic of Serbia.

  • Issue Year: XIX/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 161-174
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bulgarian