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In recent days, with anxiety a series of trials and plans are identifying for another replacement and revision of the Bulgarian position regarding EU membership of the Republic of Macedonia.
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The paper turns again to the well-known and extensively commented narrative by Herodotus about the faith of the Getae in their immortality, about the anthropodaimon Zalmoxis and about the periodic dispatching of a messenger to him. Attention is focused on the link between that evidence and the information in Herodotus about the killing of the beloved widow over the grave of the deceased husband among the Thracians who dwelled above the Crestonaeans, as well as with the statement by Stephanus Byzantius about a similar practice among the Getae. The evidence is analysed in the light of the universal historical phenomenon of following into death when someone is killed so as to follow someone else in the World Beyond. The analysis gives grounds to believe that traces of the ritual known as following into death in its institutional form are concealed behind the intricate story about the god/ man Zalmoxis, his cult among the Getae and their beliefs. Among the Getae it was of a markedly religious character, based on the strong faith in the supernatural/ divine existence of the dead in the World Beyond, in their influence on and direct interference in the course of life in this world and a clearly manifested cult of the ancestors.
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The paper studies the concrete, daily life in the Julian March during the two World Wars. Senožeče, a village with 750 inhabitants, was chosen as the model for this analysis. Special attention is given to the political, social, cultural and psychological factors that motived the members of the Slovene minority to take membership in the National Fascist Party (PNF).
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The paper seeks to question the concept of the „Bulgarian Revival“ as a fixed, selfevident and taken-for-granted concept. Nowadays Bulgarian literary theory and historiography are experiencing in a similar way the general problematicity of the Revival concept stemming primarily from two things: firstly, this concept completely lacks neutrality, it is axiologically overladen with wholly positive connotations; secondly, the metaphoricity of the concept and the consciousness of an „era“ in it invariably turn out to be interlinked at its very core. This also necessitates an inquiry into the relationship between metaphor and era in the Revival concept which ensure, in different ways and for different occasions, its ability to boundlessly produce cultural continuities, whereby the metaphor blurs and transcends the boundaries and differences between the different eras. The cultural, contextual, and political ability of the Revival concept-metaphor to produce different narratives and, hence, different eras in Bulgarian history is interpreted here as a major premise for its countless historical and contemporary uses.
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The article studies the specifics of the visions of degeneration and regeneration in Bulgaria within the eugenics discourse and other intellectual and political discourses with which it interceded. Hence, certain concepts of modernity, historical time and identity are reconstructed as a result of biosocial engineering in Bulgaria at the end of the 19th century and especially during the interwar period. The analysis is structured in several sections, which address the following topics: biological images of social time as elaborated at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century; the racial anthropological perspective of the biologist Metodiy Popov towards national historical time; the psychologizations of the „national soul“ envisaged as undergoing social progress and/or decay, as well as the scientific-political versions of a „New Revival“ of the Bulgarian collective organism. The theme of biopolitical regeneration is interpreted as enriching the conceptual background of the „revivalist imagination“ in Bulgaria.
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Literary publications from Bessarabia and the West from the first half of the last century, especially from the moment when the European frontier extends to the Nistru, raising the West’s interest in a new unknown space, which provides a large amount of Kishinev City presentations.Through the grid of our methodology (literary imagology) only the literary expressions of this deposit will pass. We will cut out from the print space only the contributions of the city’s aliens, that is to say, the writers who have been in the passage, or have sat there for a while, and, on their departure, have taken with them stories about City’s beauty and misery. Especially, because the alien imagology proved to be more persuasive and resilient over time.
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The article analyzes the news about the Euro-Atlantic integration of the Western Balkan countries on the website of the Bulgarian National Radio from 1999 to 2018. The choice of the Bulgarian National Radio is dictated by its public media function – to offer variety of topics from all over the world. The Radio is among the few media outlets in the country that includes such a rich diversity of foreign news to and from the six countries of the Western Balkans. The purpose of the text is to answer the question which events related to the Euro-Atlantic integration of the region are included in the media agenda and which are not. The conclusions were drawn on the basis of a content analysis of publications on the Radio site during the period and interviews with international editors from the media. Given the large time span of the study, eight key milestones in the Euro-Atlantic integration of the Western Balkan countries were selected
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The New-Bell Neighbourhood was established by the German colonial authorities with a view to settle the dual community of the Bell clan, which had been expropriated of their land possessions. This area gradually turned into a safe haven for various populations that immigrated to Douala.The aim of this paper is to highlight the ways in which various New-Bell communities got involved in the local and national political life throughout the period that spans from 1913 to 1990. The research is based on sociological inquiries, oral history investigations, archival documents and books dedicated to the political life in Cameroon.
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This paper deals with endowment charters from the area of Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A report from the County Commission in Bijeljina to the Provincial Waqf Directorate in Sarajevo on February 26; 1907, related to the endowment business, stat es nine endowments, or mosques in Bijeljina county: Vedjihi-Pasha Mosque, Atik Mosque, Krpić Mosque, Salihbegović Mosque, Jedid Mosque, other Atik Mosque, Atmačić Mosque, Turski Janjari Mosque and Koraj Mosque. In the report, the column entitled “place” lists the names of five Bijeljina mahalas (Bijeljina, Janja, Atmačić, Turski Janjari and Koraj). Unfortunately, no endowment charter on the founding of any of these, to our knowledge, has been preserved to this day. A total of 20 endowment charters were retained and subsequently added to the larger charters mentioned above. The three endowment charters date from the 19th century, while the rest date from the 20th century. It is interesting that the founders of 9 endowments are women, while the others are established by men. Endowment charters that we worked on treat the most significant characteristics: founder, date of endowment, certification, subject of endowment, conditions of endowment, persons in charge, witnesses, physical characteristics of charter, specimens in various forms and sources in which the endowments were publicized.
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Biographical article of the life of Capuchin priest Vojtech Rudolf Rajner, who spent most of his life in the communist regime and in his prisons.
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Studies in the field of trade show that the main contingent of traders originated in urban communities and worked on urban and international markets. But as far as nine out of ten of the subjects of the sultan in Bulgarian lands were peasants, it is logical to assume that some of them earned their living in the field of trade. In this regard, it should be noted that the issue concerning the involvement of peasants as professional traders in the economic life of the Ottoman Empire has remained poorly investigated in the historiography on the subject. The study seeks to outline an approximate portrait of the itinerant and settled rural merchants who participated in the trade, both between a town and a village, and among different regions of the empire at the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Features of their family and property status have been reconstructed on the basis of individual case studies. Issues related to the legal regulation of their business activities are analyzed. The assortment and volumes of the goods sold by them are also investigated. The author examines the problems related to the commercial practices of association of rural traders and crediting such traders. Conclusions were drawn regarding the involvement of institutions in regulating business and relations between traders and their families, partners and creditors; the level of their literacy; the role of their journeys on the level of awareness of the communities in which they operate; the importance of their professional activity in the formation of the modern traders in the Bulgarian society from the pre-Tanzimat period. The study relies on unpublished Ottoman-Turkish documents – estate inventories of deceased merchants, litigations on associations and loans, sultan fermans, petitions and complaints, tax registrations, as well as promulgated laws, travelogues, and more.
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Observed from the Roman perspective, the territory of the modern capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its wider area was a deep and inaccessible heartland of Illyricum, subsequently the Roman province of Dalmatia. This territory had been conquered by the Romans for many decades, as evidenced in the works of Greco-Roman authors. Based on the analysis of source materials and the critical approach of the modern literature, in this paper, the authors have offered a chronological review of Roman conquests of the Sarajevo Region. Following the military and political events that refer to the oldest population of the Daesitiates, that we know by name, in the period of 33 BC to 9 AD, we have established the conquest phases of the upper course of the Bosna River and the valleys of Željeznica and Miljacka Rivers. The second part of the text lists all the arguments why Roman itineraries and other geographic sources do not mention the Roman settlement near Ilidža or the administrative unit (municipium) whose territory included the Sarajevo Region. The issue of administrative development of municipium Aquae was interpreted through a critical analysis of the texts carved on epigraphic monuments. In this context, we paid attention to the name of this municipal unit. By comparing the text carved on two epigraphic monuments that holds the name of the municipal unit of Aquae, it was determined that we need to give precedence to the name carved on the base of the statue of Emperor Diocletian (284-305 AD) because this inscription belongs to the category of public inscriptions unlike the inscription found on a tombstone of a local elite in Krivoglavci. In addition, the second part of the paper analyses the Early Christian architecture found in the Sarajevo Region. The analysis includes the period from the 4th to the 6th centuries AD, and in its final part, it will offer certain guidelines regarding the Christianization process and the earliest Church organization in this region for the purpose of posing new questions that will assist in finding a solution to this important problem in future research.
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U radu se govori o jednom manje poznatom lokalitetu nadgrobnih spomenika „Staro mezarje“, na lokalitetu Babina Luka u općini Kalesija, posebno o „Babinom mezaru“, koji je u mnogo čemu epigrafski karakterističan. Autor ovo svoje istraživanje zasniva na značaju ovog lokaliteta kao dobra kulturnohistorijskog naslijeđa Bosne i Hercegovine, koji do sada nije istraživan pa otuda ni kategorisan kao kulturno-historijski spomenik. Nakon ukazivanja na značaj epigrafskih spomenika kao historijskih izvora, a koji su do sada nedovoljno istraživani, autor donosi nove podatke o ovom lokalitetu nišana, posebno o „Babinom mezaru“ koji je stavio u fokus svoga istraživanja. Dosadašnja uzgredna i površna osvrtanja na ovaj lokalitet nišana, autor mijenja i dopunjava svojim istraživanjima provedenim na samom lokalitetu. Otkriva da se radi o jednom od raritetnih nišana iz prvih decenija osmanske vladavine, sa ucrtanom šakom i sa uklesanim datumom izrade, a sve to potkrepljuje sa više priloga – karata, skica i fotografija, sve to sa osnovnom namjerom da stručnoj i naučnoj javnosti i čitaocima uopće pruži što realniju predstavu o ovom spomeniku kulture, kako bi nadležne institucije poduzele potrebne aktivnosti da se isti kategoriše i time adekvatno zaštiti.
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U kulturno-historijskom nasljeđu na određenom području spadaju, između ostalog, i gradine, stećci (i nekropole), mezarja, džamije, vodenice i tradicionalna narodna arhitektura. Do devedesetih godina XX stoljeća na području Tuzlanskog kantona pa tako i u općini Živinice bio je mali broj tekstova posvećeno ovom problemu a još manje je bilo štampanih knjiga. No, danas je situacija sasvim drugačija. Sve je veći broj onih koji se zanima za ovaj vid istraživanja kako na općini Živinice tako i šire.
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