Do czego literaturze regionalnej potrzebny jest Niemiec? (na przykładzie twórczości lubuskiej)

Author(s): Małgorzata Mikołajczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2016

This article explores the role of the German in the literature of Lubusz Province in western Poland, which is treated as an exemplary Polish-German borderland. Mikołajczak argues that images of the Lubusz German evolve in a way that is contingent on transformations in national consciousness and the expectations of postwar politics, and that this development is also influenced by regional identity politics. What’s more, the German is both a regulator and a symptom of certain phenomena in the regional community. Finally, Mikołajczak points out three basic functions of this literary image – functions that are expressed at various stages in the development of Lubusz society, from Germanophobia to Germanophilia: integration, adaptation and compensation.

Проучване на потребителския интерес към селскотуристическия продукт в региона на Средните Родопи

Author(s): Ivanka Lulcheva,Slavena Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2017

The abundance of diverse and well-preserved natural features specific heritage and anthropogenic factors make the territory of the Middle Rhodopes attractive for tourism during all seasons of the year. Many of the villages in the region over the past 20 years have established themselves as destinations for rural tourism. The paper summarized the results conducted among residents of the municipalities of Plovdiv, Pazardzhik and Stara Zagora survey on opinions and attitudes towards rural tourism product in the region of the Middle Rhodopes. As was clear from the responses to the survey, residents of large cities are the main users of rural tourism product, their opinion is very important and should be taken into account in the formation of rural tourism product. Most appeal ability factor for consumers (actual and potential), according to respondents’ presence of the original rural setting “precisely the essential content of rural tourism. Necessary, on the one hand, to keep the originality and authenticity of the region and objects, and another to create and convenience for tourists in terms of easy accessibility, infrastructure, quality of service and more. The aim of the article is to examine consumer interest in rural tourism product in the region of the Middle Rhodopes. So they explored the factors that attract users of rural tourism product in the region.

Регионални приступ проучавању социокултурних разлика међу становништвом метрополитенског подручја Мумбаја

Author(s): Dejan Šabić,Mila A. Pavlović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 6/2009

The regional approach in researching the social and cultural differences, multiculturalism and the dimensions of cultural development has been analyzed through the example of the population of Mumbai Metropolitan Area. Different aspects and dimensions of relations and connections between ethnic groups and communities in this large city, transfer of cultures in the traditional Indian society and influence of globalization have been indicated. The influence of globalization on the social and cultural changes in society from the aspect of regional geography has been discussed in a separate part of the paper.

Content, Significance and Global Role of World Regional Geography in the Framework of Pedagogical Perspective

Author(s): Hakan Önal,Selahi Coşkun,Emin Atasoy / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

This study discussed the significance and function of regional geography courses taught in Faculty of Arts and Sciences Geography Departments in Turkey along with the pedagogical and scientific role of the course. The study sought answers to the following questions: What should be taken into consideration and what subtitles should be included to carry out a country’s geographical analysis and to prepare its geographical ID? What should regional geography teachers take into consideration in terms of collecting resources, performing country analyses and planning training and education? What main titles and sub titles should the complex working method of regional geography include? Which learning domains should be prioritized in 21st century regional geography courses? What is the national and global significance of regional geography course for the students? What are the main tasks of regional geography teachers in the globalized world?

Вариант на урок за практическа дейност в VI клас на тема „Климатът и водите в Южна Америка“

Author(s): Tsetska Markova-Encheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

The present showing of a practical lesson aims to share a good practice for conducting open type of lesson in the 6th grade in order to show good methodical practices in front of teachers in geography and economics. The main task of the lecturer was to present a model for realization of competencies. The expected results of the training on the topic “Climate and Water of South America” were: – formation of competencies and behavioral patterns for reading of the climatogram and hydrogram using a rule;– retrieving information from different geographic sources (cartographic, graphic);– assessment of waters of the continent of South America as a condition of preserving life and a factor for economic activities.

Amateur Football – Identity and Memory

Author(s): Iva Kyurkchieva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

This paper analyses the role of a village near Sofia’s football tournament and the football museum established in that same village as specific times and places of memory.The author’s interest is provoked by the fact that football occupies a significant part of the living world of the bearers of that culture; it touches them emotionally and their experiences related to it are extremely important to them. Football gives meaning to their workdays and holidays and at the same time, it becomes a kind of regulator of neighbourly and village relations. It also contributes to the adaptation of young people into modern society. The football occupations of the local people seriously influence their social life. By means of football, they provide themselves with the components of their local identity construction, which increase communal confidence and differentiate them from others.

La 150 de ani de la naşterea lui Emil Racoviţă

Author(s): Dumitru Murariu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2018

With interdisciplinary and deeply original and pioneer scientific contributions, Emil Racoviţă was a Romanian biologist and bio-speleologist, founding father of this later discipline, well known all around the world. Hard-worker, with an exemplary scientific probity, with unusual analytical intellect, both in laboratory and in the field investigations, he proved to be a visionary explorer of oceans and caves, and author of general concepts in the evolutionary thought. We celebrate in 2018,150 years since Racoviţă was born. The scientists from the Institute of Speleology (founded by him), together with all biologists from the country, are grateful and proud to continuing his ideal of scientific research of living beings, and to working in their morphology, systematics, ecology, origin, evolution and distribution.

Floarea cu cinci petale

Author(s): Anca Mihaela COŞA / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2018

The five petal flower is not a simple decoration. It's an important heraldry. Looking at the old seal of Câmpulung, which, together with the seals of the cities of Baia (14th century) and Roman (15th century), are the only ones with a legend in Latin, we draw attention to a repetition - the presence of two times of the star and the semilune. The star and the crescent also appear on the coat of arms of Moldova. Next to these flowers with five petals. In order to find the meaning of the symbol, there are presented old and new examples of rosettes or flowers with five petals, respectively ten petals, if they are double lobes. The study looks at elements of architecture, urbanism and landscaping in setting up the whole area of Campulung with the two towers on which these flowers appear in stone sculptures, that of Negru Voda, the highest medieval center in Wallachia and SfGheorghe church potters. The location of these towers, taking into account the distances and landslides, reveals advanced astronomy knowledge. This type of construction and the tectonic discharge of the system, using semisferic arches and domes, leaving ample, free-at-ground ground voids, forming the triumph arcs, shows the personality of the imported rulers who ordered them. In the 14th century Câmpulung was the capital of Wallachia where, in 1352, it passed to the eternal, the Great Basarab I the Founder.

From a Poetics of Space to a Politics of Place: The Topographical Turn in Literary Studies

Author(s): Elżbieta Rybicka / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

The article’s subject is a topographical turn in literary research, considered in association with the spatial turn in humanities. It in particular concerns contemporary reconfigurations, both in the area of new concepts of space and the discipline itself which is open today for circulation of ideas and notions from other areas. The essay indicates the main directions of interest of the research current in question, including e.g.: new regionalism; ecocriticism; literary urban studies; relations between literary representations of space and individual/collective identity; interrelations between literature and geography. Characterised are the basic determinants of new concepts of space, e.g. connecting spatiality with temporality, reinstated category of site, interest in hybrid(ic)/transitive spaces and heterotopias, and the fundamental shift in the perspective – from a poetics of space to one of site.

Trajectories of “Western Borderlands” Memory After 1989

Author(s): Kinga Siewior / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

This article concerns the literature of “minor homelands” representing the territories that were included within Poland’s post-1945 borders. Preoccupied with a search of Otherness and with the concept of a multicultural borderland, this literature rose to popularity in the 1990s. Writers associated with it drew on the poetics elaborated in the context of Poland’s so-called borderland literature [literature kresowa] to rediscover traces of German culture that had been erased during the People’s Republic. By drawing on the poetics of retrospective utopia, however, this literature marginalizes the fundamental problem of forced migration. Siewior describes the strategies of masking that ‘migratory gap,’ i.e. the aestheticizing transfers of older (borderland) traditions, the return to the grandparents’ experience, or the reconstruction of the perspective of the Other. These narrative strategies suggest that this literature is unwittingly entangled in dominant discourses of identity and memory – discourses rooted in nostalgic postwar borderland literature.

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE INSTITUTIONS IN THE PROCESS OF RECONCILIATION OF A POST-CONFLICT SOCIETY : COMPARATIVE ASPECT

Author(s): Vitalie Gamurari / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The implementation of transitional justice institutions is a complex process. It is dynamic and conditioned by various factors of political, legal, historical, religious nature. Thus, it cannot be uniform, and inevitably determines effects to its respective society. Traditionally, the field experts are divided in two groups: advocates of criminal investigations and supporters of amnesty processes. The analysis is also relevant for the Republic of Moldova, which has two sensitive situations that could benefit of the tools of transitional justice: the unresolved Transnistrian conflict and a politically divided society.

Градината – място на биокултурно разнообразие

Author(s): Petar Petrov,Valentina Ganeva-Raycheva,Dessislava Dimitrova,Teodora Ivanova,Yulia Boseva,Yana Yancheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

The first part of the article presents the theoretical and methodological basis of the study of interconnections and interactions between the social and plant world in gardens, with an emphasis on the concept of biocultural diversity. Experience from collaborative field studies of ethnologists and botanists has been shared. The second part presents observations and reflections on the garden as a multilayered topos: an economic but also an aestheticized place; a place of conservation of genetic resources and knowledge, but also of experiments and innovation; a place where the diversity and composition reflects social relations, hierarchies and conflicts, social mobility and migration, memory of important events and loved ones, cultural orientations and values. The analysis shows that the garden is characterized by constant doing and incompleteness, that it is a place where people bring together different spaces and times and that each garden has its own biography that reflects the life trajectories of its owners.

Rhesos of Thrace: The Transfer of Hero’s Bones. Its Political Implications and the Making of “History” in the Greek Polis

Author(s): Tsvete Lazova / Language(s): English Issue: 16/2006

Pyxis mit Statuarguppe Satyr und Nymphe aus Novae; Moesia inferior

Author(s): Maria Čičikova / Language(s): German Issue: 15/2005

More Discoveries in the Valley of the Thracian Kings

Author(s): Georgi Kitov / Language(s): English Issue: 15/2005

The Thracian Religious Complex “Ostrusha” (a reconstruction of the project)

Author(s): Peter Valev / Language(s): English Issue: 15/2005

Troglodytes in Thrace 1. Sources and Location

Author(s): Stoyanka Dimitrova / Language(s): English Issue: 23-24/2017

The present text is the first part of a broader study and it provides a new perspective to certain aspects of the issue of the Troglodytes in Thrace. The analysis and the reinterpretation of the available written evidence lead to reconsidering of the traditional view that Troglodytes inhabited the territories close to the Danube Delta, or lived in the caves along the Black Sea coast, giving arguments for a new localisation in the interior of the Getic lands.

The Environment and Palaeogeographic Changes in Ancient Thrace (First Millennium BC)

Author(s): Rumyana Georgieva / Language(s): English Issue: 22/2015

The reconstruction of the palaeo-environment of the lands inhabited by the Thracians in this study is based on comparative analysis of currently existing written, archaeobotanical, archaeozoological, palynological, archaeological and physico-geographic evidence. It presents the natural conditions, the resources and the registered palaeogeographic changes, while at the same time taking into account the specificity and the importance of the environment for the development of Thracian society and culture during the first millennium BC. Hence the territorial scope of the study comprises mainly the lands to the south of the Danube.

EBA Anatolian Influences in Southeast Europe: Some New Examples from Thrace

Author(s): Martin Hristov / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2019

Old and new finds belonging to EBA II and III are considered. Most of all, these are the artefacts from Mikhalich, Constantsia, Ezero, Dubene, etc. Some of them are imports into Thrace and are commented enough in the specialised literature. Others were made in Anatolian style. A stone cup in the collection of the village of Svezhen, Plovdiv region, may also be indicated as an example. It is made of serpentinite, probably of local origin. However, its decoration has a very good parallel in one silver vessel of Anatolian origin. On the other hand, some finds from the Anatolian region evidence to the two-sided process of influence and contacts during EBA III and later. The data give reason to confirm the conclusion that contacts with Anatolia are certain at least since EBA II, and this is discernible in the artefacts considered, while they are considerable during EBA III.

Експедиция Банско. 30 години след началото: резултати

Author(s): Katya Melamed / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 24/2019

On June 26, 1987 Professor Fol put the beginnings of Bansko Expedition. His programme was grounded on the idea of the roots from which the intellectual power broke off in the 18th c. to give birth to the Bulgarian Revival – a brave new idea against the common belief that Bansko was founded in the 15th century by refugees from the Ottoman invasion. The members of the expedition believed that far back in time a rich pre-history existed waiting to be revealed and read properly. Today we know much better the territory after historical research, terrain observations, regular archaeological excavations and interdisciplinary analyses of artifacts. The work presents the results. St. Ivan Sanctuary A small mound with two wooden crosses and wooden iconostasis with candles. Offerings of flowers and small coins. The research revealed a sanctuary of nearly three thousand years of life and unchanged practices. Kilns for building ceramics, 4th – 6th c. in the same area. Early Christian (4th – 6th c.) and Medieval churches and a large necropolis (10th – 13th c.) all of them built over a Thracian sanctuary – Shipotsko site. The building manner of the Early Christian church has followed some earlier Thracian building practices. Most probably serious demographic changes have not taken place. The religious site was visited also by pilgrims coming from the Rhodopian Mountain judging from the pottery left. Early Christian necropolis (4th – 5th c.) in Karagonsko site. Traces of a Thracian community recently adopted Christianity and still keeping some of their earlier inherent practices. An interesting find – one of the graves contained a complete bronze belt set from the time of Constantine the Great or heirs, found for the first time in the Southern Bulgaria – a dramatic meeting between the Thracian warrior and Rome? Ancient and Medieval town in St. Nickolas site. Early Byzantine fortress of Sitan Kale – once again earlier Thracian building traditions.