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The present study is centered around a topic that has not been researched,analyzed and evaluated on its own. The continuing forgeries and unscientific interpretations in the Republic ofMacedonia about the status and work of the Macedonian parliamentary group havealso provoked the author’s interest.
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The article raises the problem of memorizing the history through objectified forms of culture. Special attention is paid to the study of the reflection of political and ethnocultural transformations in ethnographic museum artifacts. The study is focused on several samples of Montenegrin men’s caps from the middle of the XIX – the end of the XX century from the collections of Russian Museum of Ethnography. Mentioned artifacts are associated with the traditional culture of the Montenegrins. Viewed in conjunction with written and illustrative sources, as well as similar artifacts from the collections of other museums, they demonstrate their important role in representing the Montenegrin national identity. The Montenegrin cap as the element of the national costume became popular among the population of Montenegro during the formation of the statehood of the country in the middle of XIX century. In its decoration the cap expresses the political experience of the ethnic community. The cap appears as a dynamic cultural phenomenon which has demonstrated its semantic and functional variability in a last couple of centuries as well as the way of the reflection of the spiritual world in the world of objects. The source study of museum artifacts provides an ample of opportunities for their interpretation. The theoretical reconstruction of the ambient in which those artifacts have been used contributes to the multidimensional vision of the historical picture. Observing the metamorphosis of the decoration of the The article raises the problem of memorizing the history through objectified forms of culture. Special attention is paid to the reflection of political and ethnocultural transformations in ethnographic artifacts. The study is focused on several samples of Montenegrin cap from since middle of XIX to the end of XX century from the collections of Russian Museum of Ethnography. Viewed in conjunction with written, illustrative sources and similar artifacts from the collections of other museums, they demonstrate the important role in representation the Montenegrin national identity. The Montenegrin cap as the element of the national costume became popular among the population of Montenegro during the formation of the statehood of the country in the middle of XIX century. It expresses the political experience of the ethnic community and appears as a dynamic cultural phenomenon which has demonstrated its semantic and functional variability in a last couple of centuries. The theoretical reconstruction of the ambient in which those artifacts have been used contributes to the multidimensional vision of the historical picture. Observing the metamorphosis of the decoration of the Montenegrin cap makes it possible to analyze the ethnic processes in Balkan area. The study shows how artifacts can act as instruments of recording and transmitting the collective memory of ethnic communities.
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The article deals with the emergence of the Slavic ethnic identity in the territory of Ancient Rus’. While seeking for a (hypothetical) answer to this question, the author focuses on contacts that existed during the 10th century between Kiev and the empire of the Přemyslids, in which the Slavic identity was inherited from Great Moravia. According to the author, the Slavic identity could penetrate into Kiev (from which it later came to Novgorod) from the Přemyslid realm via the well-known trade route that in the 10th century connected centres of Western and Central Europe with Kiev, Volga Bulgaria, and Khazaria. In doing so, the author attributes the leading role in the contacts of Kiev with Central Europe to the tribe of Lendians (Lendzaninoi / Lędzianie) mentioned in the Byzantine emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus’s treatise «De administrando imperio» (mid-10th century). In the author’s opinion, the Lendians were not only closely connected with the realm the Přemyslids, but also controlled Plisněsk, an important political and trade center, through which contacts between Slavic-speaking communities of Central Europe and the Middle Dnieper region were made. According to the author, of all the Slavic-speaking communities that had close contacts with the Russes, the Lendians were most capable for embracing the group name Slověnedue to the supralocal nature of their group identity and the possible influence of the Moravian (Olomouc) bishopric.While stressing that the emergence in Kiev and Novgorod of new non-tribal group names, including that of Slověne, was conditioned by changes in the social and cultural habitus of the Slavic-speaking population, which concentrated in the corresponding loci, the author expresses the idea that it was the Lendians who were the key link in the spread from west to east of the the Přemyslid realm’s («Prague empire»’s) «social knowledge», which contributed to the adoption of the Slavic identity in Eastern Europe.
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The question about the (non)existence of Slovincians has been one of the more intriguing issues in Slavic studies. Slovincians, discovered initially as an “ethnic group” (Hilferding, 1862), was 130 years later rejected as a “fiction” (Szultka, 1992). Assimilating the lessons of the epistemological turn, which suggests shifting the emphasis from “whether” to “how” does anything exist, I critically examine the foundations and significance of the argument that there never was any “ethnic group” of Slovincians (in modern period) since there was no such a tribe in early medieval times. In the first part of the paper, I reveal that Szultka’s claim is supported by very limited evidence following the conceptually limited (“archaeological”) naturalist notion of tribe. In the second part, after familiarizing the reader with an antinaturalist anthropological notion of tribes as “secondary phenomena”, I seek to demonstrate that in the course of history, the Slovincians were constantly tribalized on the material and symbolic level by the Germans and the Poles (and some other actors of Slavic identity). Even if to be a tribe does not entail to be an ethnic group, Slovincians may be a fiction only in terms of social construction or making of.
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The article is focused on the efforts of the Bulgarian state to preserve the enlightenment and religious institutions and the rights of the Bulgarian Exarchic population in Albania.
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The article discusses the secret visit of Mellas, the protagonist of the Greek rebels’ movement, in the south-west regions of Macedonia, which was undertaken in June 1904 as a result of an invitation by several Greek propaganda activists in Kozhani.
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The problem of the 6 phoneme and its graphic representation or lack ofpresentation in the alphabet of the Republic of Macedonia has upset the linguistsand public figures for more than half a century. The issue is political rather thanlinguistic. The 6 phoneme exists in the language, but it has no graphic sign as it isviewed as Bulgarian. Due to party politics the traditions of Cyril and Methodius,and Kliment and Naum are infringed upon, and the actual literary and popularpronunciation is substituted.
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The profound changes that took place in almost all areas of the socio-political life in Europe in the 19th century were crucial for the crystallization and the dynamic development of ideas and concepts that for many decades influenced the reality of that time, and in many dimensions their reminiscences can also be observed today. There is n
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In 2015–2018, in connection with the celebration of the centenary of Bulgaria’s involvement in the First World War, this topic has become increasingly popular among the researchers of Bulgarian military history. On the occasion of the jubilee, a National Committee was established at the Ministry of Defense in order to organize and coordinate the various initiatives.
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After the Liberation, a great part of Bulgarian academics participated actively in public and political life, and were among the first generation of politicians in the young Bulgarian state. This paper is based on the contents of the personal archives, kept in BAS’ Scientific Archive, of Bulgarian officers who were also members of the Academy – namely, the generals Hristofor Hesapchiev and Ivan Fichev, but also on Colonel Petar Darvingov’s exceptionally rich fund. Particular emphasis is placed on the documents created and deposited in these archives in 1917.
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The article discusses the issue of the Bulgarian language spoken in Kosovo, based on the information about the dialect, the local and inhabitants’ names, as well as the population’s self-determination.
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The Bulgarian anthroponymic system has its peculiarities. This is the reason we are paying closer attention to the clan names which undoubtedly held great significance for the formation of Bulgarian family names in the end of the 19th century.
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The purpose of this paper is to better understand the activity of Antti Amattus Aarne, a representative of the Finnish historico-geographic school of folklore. On one hand, the Finnish researcher has created a system for analysis and clasification of fairy tales. On the other hand, the Transylvanian German ethnologist Adolf Schullerus said that not all the Romanian fairy tales fit into the framework of Aarne's classification. Taking all these into consideration, one of this research’s goals is to analyze the differences, as well as the similarities of the Romanian texts regarding the Antti Aarne's system.
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Proverbs are succinct enunciations that concentrate in just a few words a diversified human typology, tackled from the vantage point of appearance, ethics, social-cultural stance etc. Of the several thousand Romanian proverbs and sayings that I have collected so far, over 360 include some reference to plants from 75 species. Most proverbs refer to generic plant names such as flower, grass, (fruit) tree, weed, thistle or bramble. An analysis of such proverbs shows that half of them express observations regarding the morphology, physiology (particularly phenology), or the ecology of certain species (whether wooden or grassy, cultivated or wild). They are given in such a manner that turns them into: (potential) knowledge; moral precepts; culture (including agriculture, but especially horticulture and its branches: fruit and flower growing, viticulture, or vegetable growing); science (biology, ecology, medicine, dendrology) and so forth. One fifth of all proverbs indicate, via metaphors, physical and behavioural flaws that are either hereditary or not. The most frequent subjects are foolishness and ignorance (which lead to failure), ugliness, laziness (and its consequence, poverty), dishonesty, ungratefulness, impudence, intemperance, boastfulness, greed, witchcraft etc. Some proverbs reflect people's qualities, such as kindness, knowledge or skill, understanding, kindness, patience – features that sometimes go unappreciated by other people. One tenth of the proverbs are in the form of advice, teachings, or brief lessons in agriculture, behaviour (including ecological self-conduct). There are then proverbs that express a perception of false images or situations, or unpredictable happenings, surprises.
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Die Erzählung über den Sklaven Androklus, der den Fuß eines Löwen behandelt und dafür in der Arena von demselben vor anderen Wildtieren verteidigt wird kennt auch eine zweite Fassung, in der der Retter des Löwen einer der Kirchenväter ist. Diese Erzählung überdauerte mehr als ein Jahrtausend und fand Eintritt in Literatur, Malerei, Architektur sowie in die Mündlichkeit. Verf. betrachtet sie als eine “urban legend” der Antike und des Mittelalters.
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The national ideal, the union of Romania’s all territories was Eminescu’s dream, too, like of every true Romanian. Therefore, a double vision of history (through critical and mythical thinking) vibrates in his work, with dramatic or satirical narratives reflecting history as a manifestation of will and the decadent present, but these narratives are always interweaved with the mythical ones, rendering by deep symbols the image of ancient Dacia’s perfection and harmony (the ideal of Romanian history), integrated also in the personalities of our legitimate rulers. In this study, we intend to reveal the illustration of the national conception in Eminescu’s whole work, including poetry, prose, drama and journalistic prose, finally understanding the real meaning of the phrase: „Eminescu – the Absolute Romanian”.
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