LE RÔLE DE LA LANGUE GRECQUE DANS LA VIE ÉCONOMIQUE DES BALKANS AUX XVIIIE-XIXE SIÈCLES
THE ROLE OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE IN THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF THE BALKANS IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES
Author(s): Nadia DanovaSubject(s): History, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Economic history, Ethnohistory, Social history, Modern Age, Special Historiographies:, 19th Century, The Ottoman Empire
Published by: Институт за балканистика с Център по тракология - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Greek Language; Bularian Language; Transfer of Knowledge; Modernization; Economic Life;
Summary/Abstract: Abstract: The purpose of this text is to present several exemples of the Bulgarian history that reveal the role of the Greek language in the transfer of knowledge concerning economic life and its importance for the modernization processes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I comment on the use of Greek as a vehicle for knowledge in the field of commerce and I retrace the penetration of double-entry bookkeeping and the knowledge in commercial epistolography and geography, closely linked to commercial activities. The analysis of the correspondence of Bulgarian merchants of the 19th century reveals the current use of this language in trade, even after the cooling of relations between Bulgarians and Greeks during the second half of the 19th century due to the incompatibility of their national programs.
Journal: Études balkaniques
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 5-34
- Page Count: 30
- Language: French
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