“THE BULGARIAN SALONICA”
“THE BULGARIAN SALONICA”
Author(s): Yura KonstantinovaSubject(s): History, Social Sciences, Sociology, Ethnohistory, Local History / Microhistory, Political history, Social history, Modern Age, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, 19th Century, The Ottoman Empire, Migration Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Институт за балканистика с Център по тракология - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Bulgarians; Salonica; Collective Memory; Macedonian Question.
Summary/Abstract: The Balkan Wars put an end to the Bulgarian presence in Salonica, but not to the Bulgarian imagination relative to the city. Almost until the second decade of the 20th c. Ottoman Salonica used to be a bigger, richer and more modern city than the Bulgarian capital. It evoked much feeling and interest among Bulgarians, who saw in it many economic, political and cultural opportunities. For Bulgarians, however, Salonica was primarily linked with their freedom fighting, so its image is dominated by themes of death and self-sacrifice, of fear and courage, of prisons and concentration camps. To them it is simultaneously a city of prisons and a city of light, a city of youth and nostalgia, of education and pogrom, of economic opportunity and wasted effort.
Journal: Études balkaniques
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 358-380
- Page Count: 23
- Language: English
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