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The study is devoted to little-known facts related to the participation and contribution of the troops of the 11th Marching Regiment to the victory achieved in the battles for control of the heavily fortified area in the Machin. The data presented come to fill the gap in the researches regarding the participation of the marching formations and in particular of the 11th Marching Regiment in the battles as part of the 3rd Army. The presented information helps to clarify and supplement the general picture of the events on the front, by revealing specific details of the course of the hostilities, which so far have not fallen within the scope of attention of the scientific community. Also, a good basis is created for the formation of reasonable conclusions about the significance of the achieved victory. Archival materials have been put into circulation, which reveal new facts about the battles in the Dobrudzha region. The presented brief information about the marching regiments and the combat history of the regiment helps to clarify the nature and purpose of these units, taking into account the fact that the available information about them is more than modest and insufficient. The presented data are entirely based on materials from the State Military Historical Archives – Veliko Tarnovo.
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The paper discusses the life of Konstantin Nikolov, a Bulgarian from the town of Gorna Oryahovitsa, during his study at the Kyiv Institute of Commerce (1909 – 1915). The very “insignificance” of this person allows for some wider generalizations, given the fact that precisely such people best reflect the society as a whole. For this reason, the study of ordinary people’s biographies has become an important focus of modern historiography. Nikolov’s student years illustrate some aspects of contemporary Bulgarian history and exemplify the experience of Bulgarian students in the Russian Empire before and during the World War I. The present study is based on archive materials previously untapped by scholars. It also involves some documents relative to Svitozar Drahomanov, who was of Ukrainian origin but spent his childhood in Bulgaria and studied at the Kyiv Institute of Commerce along with Nikolov, as well as documents regarding a trip to Bulgaria by Czesław Madej, another student of the same institute. The study demonstrates that archives of different Kyiv-based higher educational institutions should be explored for more valuable materials regarding Bulgarian born students, which may help draw a fuller picture of Bulgarian-Ukrainian relations in the field of education and culture. This, in turn, will contribute to a deeper understanding of the history of Ukrainian higher education in the early 20thcentury. It will also provide a wider perspective on the phenomenon of Bulgarians studying abroad before and during the World War I, including the life situations of the students during this period which proved crucial for the whole European civilization.
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Digital learning has long been talked about. Unfortunately, an undesirable situation brought this idea to the fore. History is a subject with wide possibilities for visualization, which process occupies a central place in the digital learning. This publication examines some aspects of history teaching in the transformation of the learning process from a present to a digital environment, based on observations and personal experience over a year.
More...Стоянович, П., 2021. Пътят към София. Произход, образование и мотивация на принц Фердинанд Сакс-Кобургски и Готски за мисията в България. София: Фабер.
More...Табаков, С., 2020. Опит за история на град Сливен, Т. I (трето издание), София: БАРАКА, 732 стр.
Tabakov, S., 2020. Opit za istoria na grad Sliven, Vol. I (third edition), Sofia:BARAKA, pp. 732
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The article deals with the peculiarities of use of presentism as an approach in historical knowledge connected with the relationship between the past and the present. The essence of presentism, its cognitive potential, types, strengths and weaknesses are revealed. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the cognitive capabilities of presentism as a research strategy in history of education, the identification of the risks that arise in connection with its use. It is shown that the main reasons for using presentism in historical and pedagogical research are as follows: substantiation of the relevance of the chosen topic; construction of a methodological research project; substantiation of the practical significance of the results obtained. The emphasis is made on the fact that the presentist approach, the use of which is inevitable, can lead to the distortion of the past, generate bias and tendentiousness in historical analysis, conclusions, generalizations, interpretations, assessments and, thereby, reduce the objectivity, scientific character and theoretical potential of the results obtained. Overcoming the negative consequences of the use of peresentism requires balance and attitude to the historical and pedagogical experience as a unique, inimitable phenomenon that cannot be transferred and repeated in the present in order to solve up-to-date educational problems.
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Object of the present research is the Russian chronograph, an extensive chronicle in which the history of the Slavs is described as part of the world. The information about the Bulgarians occupies an important place. The data about the Bulgarian history in the 9th – 11th c. is taken from Slavic translations of Byzantine chronicles and from some Russian historical works, most notably from the Bulgarian additions to the Manasses Chronicle. This article seeks to answer the question of how productive the Chronograph is as a historical source. Unpublished editions and copies of the Chronograph were also used for the purposes of the research. The method of comparative analysis shows that although some of the information is found in earlier Russian historical texts, different points of view are presented in the Russian chronograph. The chronograph contains rich information about Bulgarian history, part of which remains out of scientific interest. It is valuable for science and can be productively used as a source for Bulgarian medieval history.
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The purpose of the article is to analyse the use of political propaganda methods employed by the Russian Empire before and during the First World War, in particular, on the Ukrainian lands, which became a direct theatre of military operations and a field of confrontation between intelligence and counterintelligence services of belligerent powers, which exercised manipulative influence upon great masses of population and implemented special technologies for the formation of public opinion. The research methodology is based on the principles of objectivity, systematicity, dialectics, historicism and interdisciplinarity. The study is grounded on problem chronological, institutional and historical methods, as well as social psychology methods, used in propaganda practices. Scientific novelty: on the basis of printed materials: brochures, First World War periodicals, published posters and woodcuts (lubki prints), as well as memoirs of people, involved in the organization of propaganda campaigns, certain objects, technologies and forms of propaganda, in particular, the involvement of intelligence officers of the Russian Imperial Army in manipulative technologies, were defined. The widespread use of propaganda and counter-propaganda by the states that were the main players of the First World War, became a kind of hallmark of that war. In Russia, unlike other states, there were no special bodies and no such bodies were created later to influence public opinion in their own, hostile or neutral states. The peculiarity of the propaganda of the Russian Empire was the use of mainly constructive (positive) propaganda aimed at neutralizing social conflicts within the state, uniting the population and the authorities and their joint struggle against the enemy. The ideas of Pan-Slavism and Neo-Slavism were actively applied in the international realm. They were aimed at the unity of the Slavic world under the auspices of Russia as the defender of the Slavic peoples and the Orthodox Christian faith. The use of destructive propaganda technologies was aimed at creating the image of the “enemy” and uniting patriotic forces against it. At the same time, Russia failed to offer Slavic peoples of the empire, in particular Ukrainians, to realize their political aspirations in resolving the national issue; it did not feel a change of mood and did not restructure the content of propaganda rhetoric, which eventually led to its defeat in the information and psychological space.
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The article outlines the relations between the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Bulgarians in the 14th century. It is divided into three parts. The first part examines the relations between the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Patriarchate of Tarnovo, and an attempt is being made to present not only the cases of opposition between the two institutions, but also the interaction and spiritual ties between them. The second part presents the relations between the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Bulgarians in the context of the political and ecclesiastical life in the Balkans in that period. The third part presents the relations of the Patriarchate of Constantinople with high-ranking Bulgarian clergy, who developed most of their activities outside the Bulgarian lands. They are evidence of the spiritual growth and influence of the Bulgarian Church before its destruction, as well as an example about the traditional contacts of the Bulgarians with the Byzantine Church.
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Nearly three centuries have passed since Bulgarian migrants appeared on the territory of contemporary Ukraine. They had to leave their historic homeland due to the strengthening of control of the Ottoman administration over all spheres of life of Bulgarians in the metropolis, as well as the intensification of the Russian-Turkish military confrontation, which drastically affected the economic, social, and cultural situation of the Bulgarian population. The Bulgarians, settled down on the Ukrainian lands, became an integral part of the multi-ethnic Ukrainian society, though fell victim to the assimilation policy of the Soviet period. Bulgarians are undergoing a period of national and cultural revival in the independent Ukraine, which is intimately linked to the process of recovering the historical memory of Ukrainian Bulgarians, restoring the pantheon of national heroes, memorable dates, and revival of traditional culture. In this connection, the researches dedicated to the analysis of the process of formation of the historical memory of the Bulgarian community in modern Ukraine are of particular relevance. The authors emphasize the difference between the two main groups of the Bulgarian community on the territory of Ukraine – Bessarabian and Azov (Taurida) Bulgarians, which is reflected in a reassessment of the role of the migration of ancestors of modern Ukrainian Bulgarians from the metropolis as well as in a monopolization of objects of national and cultural heritage by certain organizations, etc.
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On the entire territory of the eastern regions of the Republic of North Macedonia, archaeological research and historical sources confirmed only the Bishopric of the city of Bargala as the first and so far the only bishopric. Beside the bishopric as the main church seat, there were also 453 Christian centers with lower rank than that of a bishopric, which have great merit for the spread of Christianity in other parts of the eastern regions of the Republic of North Macedonia. Based on the number of discovered basilicas and early Christian single-naved churches on the territory of the eastern regions of the Republic of North Macedonia, as Christian centers we can distinguish the following: - Maleshevija – Pehcevo: three-naved basilica on the site St. Petka and the three early Christian churches on sites: Skalata – village Ciflik, Manastir and Lesje in the village Spikovo. - Vinica with the two three-naved basilicas at the sites: Gorica and Kale. - Pijanec: Dulica with the three-naved basilica at the site Begov Dab, and the single-naved churches at the sites: Manastir, Seliste – St. Ilija, Keramidnica and Crkva. - Demir Kapija with three-naved basilicas at the sites: Manastir and Crkviste and the single-naved church at the site Kale – Strezov Grad – village Celevec. - Nov Dojran: the early Christian centre Nov Dojran with the three-naved basilica at the site Crkviste, and the singlenaved church at the site Manastir. - Vraninci (Kocani), with single-naved churches at the sites: Gramadi, Grobista and Seliste. - Kochani: Morodviz, has been discovered the church complex Crkvishte with two early Christian churches and one medieval church, dating from the 5th to 12th century, and the early Christian center Vraninci, in the area of which three single-church early Christian churches have been discovered, Gramadi, Grobista and Seliste. - Kratovo with Konjuh, on the territory of which three basilicas were discovered, two at the site Golemo Gradiste and one at the site Kshla. - Strumica, we will separate the city of Strumica with two early Christian basilicas, discovered at the sites of St.15 Martyrs of Tiberiopolis and Orta Mosque. - Stip, besides the Bishopric of Bargala, a great contribution to the spread of Christianity, there is also an early Christian center of Krupishte, 454 located in the middle of Bregalnica, in whose territory are discovered: the cathedral temple and the single-naved Early Christian church at the local church Kale, the three-naved church under the foundations of the medieval church of St. Nicholas. Early Christian centers (basilicas and single-nave churches) were demolished during the increasingly frequent attacks by the Avar – Slavs, late 6th – early 7th century. From the 8th century until the 14th century, until the arrival of the Ottomans in this region, нew sacred buildings were built above the foundations of most basilicas and single-nave churches, which continued to spread Christianity in the eastern areas of the Republic of North Macedonia.
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The study examines the social characteristics of the clergy in the kaza (region) of Razlog in the early twentieth century. Based on the register of local parish priests from 1910, the main socio-economic indicators of the clergy are traced: age, marital status, ordination circumstances, years of service, church hierarchy, origin and heredity of the profession, education, parish size, annual income. The regional peculiarities of the clergy in the context of the general data on the Bulgarian priests in Macedonia in the beginning of the XX century are outlined.
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The festivals in honor of Jupiter, celebrated in the Roman province of Lower Moesia, have not been studied extensively. Fourteen precisely dated Latin inscriptions have been analyzed for this purpose. The 13th of June is defined as a fixed feast in the calendar of vicus Quintionis, and probably to one more village in Northern Dobruja. Most of the monuments were dedicated on different days and it is impossible to determine whether they were consecrated on a holiday in honor of the god. Some villages in Dobruja, such as vicus Secundini, vicus Clementiani and vicus classicorum performed regular, perhaps even annual dedications to Jupiter, but the day of the consecration of the altars is not specified in the inscriptions. The cyclic recurrence of this act presupposes observance of a certain holiday calendar with a fixed festival of Jupiter.
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In this paper are presented the main and little-known street and other urban areas’ name changes in Plovdiv during the XX century. Attention is also paid to the background from the late Ottoman period. The renaming actions implemented by the central or local authorities usually lead to partial or complete loss of historical memory, regardless of the policy, purpose and ideology. Most seriously were affected the names from the time of the Ottoman rule but there were more cases throughout the Bulgarian national history.
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This article examines commercial gramophone records and focuses on their functioning as a medium in the first half of the twentieth century. During the first stage of the development of the shellac gramophone record (from the 1900s to the late 1920s), the gramophone record became the main medium of the music industry, had global distribution and sales, and competed with the leading media and forms of music and art reproduction: cinema and radio. The article focuses on several highlights. It asks how old commercial gramophone records should be studied today: as historical object, sound document, or media? Some methodological problems and directions for future research are pointed out. Examples are given of the history of the Bulgarian music industry and media music in the first half of the twentieth century.
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