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We present this article as an attempt to draw attention to the treatment of these issues on the pages of this magazine in the past twenty years, due to the 140th anniversary of the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the 100th anniversary of the Austro-Hungarian abandonment of the country, as of the foundation of the Kingdom of SHS as a new state that was created on the ruins of this old state. Therefore, our intention was to emphasize the historical significance of all these events and processes and the initiation of new research concerning their reflection on the local and regional area, where we are not only talking about Gračanica but about the wider area as well and the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This article shows that many interesting articles were published during the last twenty years that deal with specific questions concerning the Austro-Hungarian occupation and the length of the Austro-Hungarian rule, as well as other articles that deal with the collapse of the old state and the formation of a new state on its ruins. These articles, when judged by their quality and importance, are all important contributions to the local historiography and cultural history of the Gračanica region. The articles dealing with the available historical sources for that period are of special importance.
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The paper is based mainly on documents from the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Central Party Archives. It considers the preparations for the coming Peace Treaty following the Second World War and the place of Macedonia in the attempts to protect the national interests.
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The paper discussed the relation of the Party led by Yanko Sakazov towards the war as a way to solving the complex national question and to the national union. The Bulgarian Revolutionary Social Democratic Party (United) /BRSDP (U)/ considers the solving of these problems in a close relation to the country's domestic democratization and its foreign policy.
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The paper analyses composite nouns registered in the speech of the Gotse Delchev region. The composites fall into five word formative categories: nomina agentis, nomina instrumenti, nomina actionis et nomina resultativa, and nomina loci.
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On the evening of December 21, 1923 the participants in the creation of the Macedonian Scientific Institute (MSI) departed from the hall №10 of the Sofia Universi-ty St. Kliment Ohridski with the thought that marked “the beginning of a great work”. One of the founders, the Ohrid chronicler Eftim Sprostranov ended the same day at 22 pm his daily journal entries tired but happy, with the hope that the Institute will be strengthened and will “move to free and independent Macedonia, where it will become an Academy of Sciences of pride and glory for Macedonian Bulgarian”.
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World War II was a clash of nations and ideologies, and a fierce struggle for resources. None of the warring parties was entirely right. Crimes of the Tripartite Pact forces and their allies can not to be justified, but the crimes of their opponents must also be recognized. Achieving balance in evaluations, conclusions and generalizations requires bringing disguised so far “inconvenient evidence”.
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The main reason for the frequent influx of refugees to Bulgaria is rooted mostly in the unresolved national question in the Balkans. Created by the Congress of Berlin in July 1878 Principality of Bulgaria included in its borders only half of those liv-ing on the peninsula Bulgarians.
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The Kresna-Razlog Uprising 1878 – 1879 and the Unification of the “Two Bul-garias” in 1885 were the two highlights along the journey on which embarked the all-Bulgarian revolutionary movement from the epoch of National Revival towards its “Modernity”. The first event continued the “Bulgarian uprisings” for political independency (statesmanship) from before 1878.
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This article focuses on the history of the family and households in eighteenth-century Ukraine. The aim of the article is to observe the demographical characteristics of craftsman guild families and households in the Cossack Hetmanate (an autonomous Cossack territory situated on the Left Bank of the Dnieper River) in the cities of Poltava, Pereiaslav and Nizhyn. Calculations are based on the General Description of the Left-bank Ukraine of 1765–1766. In the article, population size indicators for the artisan households and their families are established. Family household types are defined on the basis of works by Peter Lasslett and Cezary Kuklo. Craft specialization is taken into account for clarifying the influence of the occupation on the size of the households and family household types. The calculations were made separately for the crafts that were the most widespread in all the cities: weaving, blacksmithing, tailoring, shoemaking and butchering.
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This article postulates revising the previous arrangements for demographic change in modern Gdańsk, which were devised nearly 30 years ago by the Gdańsk researcher Jan Baszanowski, who died prematurely in 1989, and which appeared in a posthumously-published monograph. Baszanowski’s calculations, based only on tables of vital statistics drawn up by municipal agencies, should be compared with entries in the registers (relatively wellpreserved for the modern period) from Gdańsk parishes (both Protestant and Catholic). Analysis of the registers will also provide new data. Without questioning the general statistical trends outlined in Baszanowski’s findings, it is absolutely imperative to return to research on the demography of Gdańsk and other cities in Royal Prussia.
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The main purpose of the paper is to familiarize readers with the parish registers kept by the pastors of the Calvinist (French) commune in Szczecin. They allow us to follow changes in the number of births, marriages and deaths among the French community in the city for 220 years (from 1721 to 1943). The article discusses the structure of all of the books kept by the commune as well as the changes occurring in the commune. This material also aims to encourage potential researchers to become interested in the source provided.
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This study aims at finding the level of literacy among people marrying in two parishes of the city of Cracow in the first half of the 19th century. The ability to sign the marriage contract is then analyzed within the context of the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the individuals. Thus far, scant attention has been paid to this issue in the Polish historiography. Hence, this paper is an attempt to at least partially fill this gap. This research was based on the civil marriage registers from two city parishes – St. Florian and Holy Cross (1810–1846). The database contains information on 2790 individuals. The data was analyzed with the use of traditional methods (descriptive statistics, Maggiolo methods) and logistic regression models. The results show the links between literacy and independent variables (age, civil status, occupation, geographic origin, parents’ vital status etc.) in the form of odds ratios.
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The issue of the incomplete civil registration of Jewish marriages in areas of Poland occupied by Austria between 1772 and 1918 (the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and the Grand Duchy of Cracow) demands closer analysis and clarification. Marriage records are very important in genealogy and historical demography; thus, irregularities in their registration rate can have a serious impact on the accuracy of data. Also, the legal status of a child (legitimate or illegitimate) can be an important factor that should not be neglected and need to be well understood. We collected data on the births and marriages of Jews from the city of Cracow and employed the procedure of family reconstitution to analyze families with parents who were officially married (legitimate), who had never married (illegitimate) and where marriage occurred years after the children were born (legitimized by subsequent marriage). This allowed the authors to study the dynamics of both the phenomenon of “ritual marriage” as such (when it appears, reaches its peak and vanishes) and of the families (how many and how often children are being born and when such marriage can ultimately become legitimized).
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The article uses data contained in the records of the legitimization of children made in the District Court of the Radomsko District between 1845 and 1874. Using the statistical method, the analysis was based on sex, age, social and territorial origin, names and surnames of the children. Most of the children were born out of wedlock to parents from the lower social classes in the judicial district under study. They did not have first names that would stigmatize them and most often bore their mother’s maiden name. Almost all the cases of legitimization concerned male offspring, mostly mature men. Most often, parents wanted to prove that their son was an only son, which was associated with the desire to protect him from serving in the Russian army.
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In 1848 the world was ravaged by one of the deadliest cholera outbreaks of the 19th century. From among the Northwestern Russian governorates, it was Mogilev which suffered most and where, over a sixmonth period, over 48,000 people fell sick, of whom 31.4% eventually died of the plague. When taking the incidence rate into consideration, the districts of Orsza and Sienno were hardest hit as, due to both the geophysical conditions (large numbers of bogs, swamps, periodic river floods, high soil moisture etc.) and the prevailing social and civilizational determinants (poor sanitary conditions in the towns and villages, the lack of water supply lines or sewage systems, low pure water accessibility, very limited medical care etc.) the Vibrio cholerae had particularly favorable conditions for development. The article presents the conditions for the development of the outbreak, its course, and the methods of treatment for a disease which was poorly understood at that time.
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