На границата на османското пространство: Видин, ХV – първата половина на ХVІІІ в.

Author(s): Rossitsa Gradeva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3-4/2015

Based on a variety of mainly Ottoman primary sources – kadı sicills, tapu tahrir defters, single documents, as well as contemporary narratives, the article aims at elucidating the impact of the wars waged by the Ottomans with their neighbours at a time of expansion and retreat in one Ottoman border region and city. More specifically it analyses the influence of the war and the frontier on the defence system and the military institutions, on the establishment and development of the provincial administration and the agrarian regime over a period of nearly four centuries. The focus is on the city of Vidin during the wars at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century following which it again came at the frontline of Ottoman defence, and on the influence of the frontier on the relations between the two main religious communities in the region, the Muslims and the Orthodox Christians.

На какви езици говорят и пишат просветителите? Периодични издания в многоезична среда: Случаят „Шутош“ (1873-1874)

Author(s): Nikolay Aretov / Language(s): English,Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2020

Residing within the confines of the multi-cultural and multi-lingual Ottoman Empire Bulgarians spoke and wrote in different languages, depending on the type of communication and the audience. This paper presents several examples of Bulgarian enlighteners from the 19th century who used a language other than their own native Bulgarian. Shutosh was a comic newspaper, published in Istanbul in the 1870s. It was the Bulgarian version of a periodical owned by the Greek Teodor Kasap. Almost all publications in the newspaper were either anonymous, or signed with pen names. Large parts of them were translations, but neither the names of the authors, nor the translators were mentioned. One such translation was in fact an adaptation of Voltaire’s Zadig ou la Destinée. This article traces the history of that newspaper and presents some of its publications that have to do with literature.The observations lead to the conclusion that there was considerable multilingualism among Bulgarians in the mid-19th century. There were some multilingual periodicals, and there were texts published in languages other than Bulgarian and Greek. After the establishing of the new Bulgarian state (not so much in Eastern Rumelia), the trend changed and the Bulgarian language gained its high status and almost monopoly position, as well as the status of a lieu de mémoirе.

НА ТЕАТЪР С БЪЛГАРИТЕ В ОСМАНСКИЯ СОЛУН

Author(s): Yura Konstantinova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2019

In the last decade of the 19th century the Bulgarians appeared in the theatrical life in Ottoman Salonica. Their theatrical activities and their preferences were entirely in line with those of the Jewish and Greek communities in the city. The prevalent performances were those dedicated to some charity cause and presented patriotic themes. The theatrical activities of the Bulgarians were driven mostly by teachers and students at the Bulgarian educational institutions.

Наградите от фонд „Кесяков“ при Българска академия на науките за опознаването и сближаването на полския и българския народ

Author(s): Tsvetana Velichkova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2015

Ivan, Hristo and their sister Maria Kesyakov are among the donators of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. All three are from a prominent family from Koprivshtitsa and the brothers are alumni of Polish schools. In December 1932, the Managing Board of the BAS founded one of the biggest donation funds, entitled donation fund “Kesyakov”, with the donation of 212 nominal bonds amounting to 100,000 BGN. The donation fund was founded with the intention of awarding different historical works in Polish and Bulgarian, various translations, scientific works and works of fiction, as well as research literature dedicated to the life and deeds of Michal Czajkowski (Sadyk Pasha) and to the Congregation of the Resurrection. The goal of this award was to encourage works which facilitate the rapprochement of the Bulgarian and Polish nations and to promote “Bulgarianness”. From 1934 until 1941, BAS awarded famous translators of works in Polish and authors writing on subjects related to Poland, among which were Anastasia Gancheva-Zografova, Dora Gabe, Hristo Vakarelski, Georgi Kertev, I. Kamburov, Slava Shtiplieva, Tsvetana Romanska-Vranska, Veselina Genovska-Gercheva, and others. The awards of the donation fund “Kesyakov” serve as a stimulus for people working as translators from Polish and for the general reception of their works and research on people of Polish descent living in Bulgaria.

Надгробен надпис в чест на шейх

Author(s): Katerina Venedikova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0

The author makes a short review of publications of Arabic Ottoman inscription in honour of a sheikh. The paper provides a facsimile, a deciphered text transcribed in Latin, a translation in Bulgarian and coments on the monument. The inscription shows that there were members of the Qadiri tariqa (Sufi order) in the 18th century in Plovdiv and maybe that there was a tekke of this brotherhood.

Надписи от Горноводенския манастир „Св. Св. Кирик и Юлита” край Асеновград. Предварителни бележки

Author(s): Alexandra Trifonova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2015

In this paper the inscriptions of the Sts Cyricus and Јulitta monastery at Gorni Voden are discussed. They give valuable information about the historical persons who contributed to the weal of the monastery. Based on them, it comes out that the monastery was built in 1835 with the donations of the habitants of the Greek community of Gorni Voden. The naos was painted in 1847-1848 with the sponsorship of laymen of Bulgarian origin, whereas the narthex was painted in 1850, during the time of the hegoumenos Gerasimos Iviritis, by the painter Alexios Athanassiou from Naoussa. The wood-carved iconostasis was painted with the help of Greeks from Philippopolis during the period of 1864-1871. Among the donors of the monastery laymen of Bulgarian origin dominate who come from the places Assamita, Gerdima, Gorni Voden, Guzurli, Edbek, Irinzik, Karaorman, Kezik, Meriza, Muldava, Tremezli and Chiflik mahala, as well as members of the guilds of the chandlers, the grocers and the snippers of Philippopolis. Donnors were also by separate persons from this town, as Georgios Kazandzoglou (1847), Georgios Athanassiou Kaftandzis (1864), Anasstasios hadji Dimitriou Koimdzis (1864), Athanassios Iakovou Argyriadou (1868), Vassilios G. Klieanthis (1870), Ekaterina A. Tomidi (1871) and Josif, as well as persons from the ecclesiastical circle, as hierodeacon hadji Makarios from Bursa, the hegoumens of the monastery Gerasimos Iviritis (1850) and hadji Jeronimos Philippopolitis, the priest Dimitrakis Chrisafi Frangakis and the monks Sofronios and Josif.

Назар Александрович Каразин в свете новых документов

Author(s): Mihail Stanchev,Olga Vovk,Natalia Krasko / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 2/2018

In the article on the basis of new documents, whichwere unpublished before, the ethnic origin of Nazar Alexandrovich Karazin, the father of the founder of theKharkov Imperial University, Vasily Nazarovich Karazin, is covered. On the basis of the new documents found inthe Russian State Military Historical Archive (RSMHA) from the personal fund of N. A. Karazin, the authors provehis Bulgarian, not Greek, as it was stated earlier, origin.It is Catherine’s Rescript from 1768 and a description ofthe Karazin family tree, about which the authors write in the article and, of course, personal documents of V. N.Karazin’s father – Nazar Alexandrovich, in particular hisso-called “regimental certificate”. Much attention in the article is given to the preparation in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavraof second major, and then of lieutenant colonel NazarKarazin, to a special mission as a personal representativeof Catherine during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774in Moldavia and Wallachia, his negotiations with the ruler of Walachia Pervul Kantakuzino with the aim of raising the uprising in the Slavic provinces of the Ottoman Empire and spreading the “Manifesto” of Catherine in theseprovinces in order to realize the so-called “Greek project”of the Russian Empress.

Найден Геров и българското национално движение в Пловдив през 50-те години на ХІХ век

Author(s): Antoaneta Kirilova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2017

This article examines the processes of construction of national identity in Plovdiv during the 1850s. The exposition is on two parallel lines. One traces the conflict and the degree of confrontation between Bulgarians and Greeks/grecomans in Plovdiv on a national basis in the field of enlightenment, everyday communication and church organization. The other line reveals the participation of Nayden Gerov ‒ a teacher (1850‒1853) and Russian consular agent in Plovdiv (after 1857) ‒ in the creation of Bulgarian national consciousness in the still subject to strong Greek influence city of Plovdiv. The argumentation of the thesis is made using a rich documentary material from the published and unpublished archive of Nayden Gerov.

Найден Геров и Драган Цанков в лабиринтите на въпроса: Българската уния

Author(s): Antoaneta Kirilova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3-4/2015

Based on known and newly found documents the author traces the specific actions taken by the Russian diplomacy to abolish the Bulgarian Union in the middle of the 19th century. The main role in this task was assigned to the Russian consular agent in Plovdiv Nayden Gerov. The article highlights the activity of N. Gerov and D. Tsankov and presents their opinions on how to solve the Bulgarian Church Issue showing clearly the difference in the positions of the two prominent figures of the Bulgarian national movement. One of them was a Russian diplomat who was obliged under his official position to follow Russia’s policy towards the Bulgarian-Greek religious strife, which coincided with his personal beliefs to solve the Issue within the traditional Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox. The other was a Bulgarian journalist, politician and public figure offering to Bulgarians a union with the Roman Catholic Church as the way out of the tangled religious issue. The author tries to give a reasoned answer to the question which is a major focus of this article: What did the Bulgarian union achieve for the national movement in the mid-19th century and in this sense – was it its well thought out, far-sighted and politically justified „alternative“?

Народът и неговата душа ‒ народопсихологията като работа по очертаване на автентичното

Author(s): Simeon Kyurkchiev,Maria Martinova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 50/I/2018

The article examines national psychology and its development in Bulgaria in the second half of ХІХ and the first half of XX century in the context of the Revival and the notions and images of the Bulgarian associated with it. It is hypothesized and argued that thinking of national psychology as of an instrument for selective actualization of what is reckoned as original Bulgarian traits is heuristic for understanding the political uses of the descriptions of the people and its character. A specific type of discursive approach in the descriptions of the Bulgarians is identified and analyzed – one that reaffirms the value of what is Bulgarian by an utterance of negative traits.

Население Северо-Западного Причерноморья в XVIII в. (исторические аспекты)

Author(s): Dan I. Khaidarly / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 6/2009

The article considers some historical aspects in the evolution of population on the North-Western Black Sea Coast in 18th c. The research embraces southern area of the lands between the Prut and the Dniester Rivers (Budjak) and the Dniester and the Dnieper Rivers, which were partly under the Turkish power and partly under the Crimean Khan’s power. The latter was a privileged vassal of the Ottoman Empire. Such issues as territorial and administrative division of this area, political evolution and migration processes are studied in close relation with the historical events. The author tells about the number of population and its ethnic composition, both for settled and nomadic population of the territorial and administrative units of the region. Special attention is paid to changes of borderline between the possessions of the Budjak Nogays (vassals of the Crimean Khan) and the territories within the Prut-Dniester basin which were still under the power of the Moldavian Prince. Dependence of migration processes and changes in quantity and ethnic composition of the population on political situation and military conflicts of 18th c. is given special consideration. An important role in this context is played by Russian-Turkish wars of 1768-1774 and 1787-1792, due to which the Turks and the Tartars lost their control over the territory in the south of the Dniester-Dnieper interfluves and, besides, the territory under their direct control in the south of the Prut-Dniester interfluves shrank in size too.

Насеља и становништво Гокчанице у средњем и раном новом веку

Author(s): Srđan Katić,Tatjana Katić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 2/2017

This paper discusses development of settlements and population dynamics of the Gokčanica region in the first centuries of Ottoman administration. By analyzing several unpublished Ottoman land registers and financial books, the authors are showing that this mining region was organized as a separate administrative unit during the reign of the Ottoman Empire, and how it covered a territory larger than the one presently understood as the area of Gokčanica. The amplitudes of mining and ferrous metallurgy, which were the dominant local industry, influenced the migrations of population and settlement models. The most populous villages were not established in places best fitted for living, but in those most convenient for operation of smelters, which also influenced other economic activities. Contrary to popular tradition, population of Gokčanica was entirely Serb and Eastern Orthodox, and isolated from the Islamization process.

Наследие христианского Востока и доминанты русской культуры

Author(s): Vasilij Shhukin / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 2/1996

Трудно не согласиться с Чаадаевым, считавшим, что принятие христианства от Византии, а не от Рима было одним из наиболее судьбоносных факторов российской истории. Православие не только приобщило Русь к средиземноморскому культурному ареалу, ставшему колыбелью семито-византийской и западноевропейской цивилизации, но и направило страну не по той столбовой дороге динамического развития, по которой уверенно шагал христианский Запад. Страх и недоверие по отношению к католической или протестантской "ереси", догматическая приверженность к воспринятым в "совершенной" форме богооткровенным истинам, требовавшим не дальнейшего углубления, а сохранения в "чистом", неприкосновенном виде - все это лишь в ограниченной степени способствовало развитию оригинальной богословской мысли после IX века.1 Византийская традиция "симфонии" светской и церковной властей привела на Руси к фактическому, а затем и к формальному подчинению Церкви государству, а авторитарность в еще большей мере стала неотъемлемой чертой русской политической культуры.

НАУКА И ОБЩЕСТВО: ПУБЛИЧНАЯ ИСТОРИЯ В КОНТЕКСТЕ ИСТОРИЧЕСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ ЭПОХИ ГЛОБАЛИЗАЦИИ

Author(s): Lorina Petrovna Repina / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2015

In the 19th century, which is known as the historical age, the high degree of trust to history and the social prestige of historical science were based on the idea entrenched in the public consciousness about the continuity of historical development of human civilization and the unique opportunities for using the past experience as a means to solve problems in the present and build “the bright future”. However, understanding of the dramatic experience of the 20th century undermined the belief in the usefulness of history. This situation was greatly aggravated by the intensification of globalization processes at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The problems of interaction between academic (professional) history and the general public of concrete societies, as well as changes in their relations in the context of deep social transformations turned out to be at the center of attention of many researchers. Public history purposefully overcomes alienation from “the uninitiated”, which is typical for historical science of the 20th century; it strives to restore the interest of the consumer to the production of historians, as well as to propagate professional standards, historical knowledge, and proper understanding of the specific character of “historian’s craft” among the wide circles of non-professionals.

Научна конференция „120 години от Априлското въстание"

Author(s): Dimitar Tyulekov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/1996

Научна конференция и издание на тема „Институциите и българското сто¬панско развитие през вековете“ (Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“ – 28 и 29 септември 2018 г.)

Author(s): Emilia Vacheva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2019

Научна конференция и издание на тема „Кризи и стопанско развитие през вековете“

(Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“ – 19–20 септември 2019 г.)

Author(s): Emilia Vacheva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2020

Научна конференция на тема „Пазари, общество, власт“

Author(s): Ivan Rusev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2020

Научна периодика 2011–2012 г.

Author(s): Emilia Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 24/2012

Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, archaeology and art studies

Научная конференция "Проблемы экономической истории"

Author(s): Iliyana Marcheva-Atanasova / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 2-3/1997