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Стопанската криза от 1875 г. на страниците на българския възрожденски печат
The 1875 Economic Crisis on Pages of the Bulgarian Revival Press

Author(s): Hristiyan Atanasov
Subject(s): History, Economy, Economic history, Social history, 19th Century, Financial Markets, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Център за стопанско-исторически изследвания
Keywords: Ottoman and Bulgarian history; economic crises; Ottoman bankruptcy; records; sources.

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to present the information in the Bulgarian National Revival Press on the economic crisis of 1875. A problem that has been ignored by Bulgarian scholars so far. Hundreds of issues of Revival newspapers were reviewed, containing a large number of reports, executive orders from the Ottoman authorities, analyzes, and so on. The article can’t be quite exhaustive, however. The materials are thousands and it is impossible all of them to be presented here. The records are divided into several major thematic groups: the famine in Asia Minor in 1874, the harsh climatic conditions of the winter of 1875, the extinction of farm animals, the uprising in the Ottoman provinces of Herzegovina and Bosnia, and the bankruptcy of the High Porte in the same year.

  • Issue Year: IV/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 80-93
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bulgarian