Номади в историята на средновековните северозападни български земи

Author(s): Neven Iliev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2015

In the Time of First Bulgarian Tsardom this is Bulgarians. They come into being at the end of 7 c. And their numbers rise in the first half of 9 c. In this Period the District of Bidin is well defended. During the Second Bulgarian Tsardom the District becomes a border and this demands a dependable ally. Such allies become the Polovtsi (Comanians) who have considerable military force. What is more, the Leaders of the Comanians come from the supreme Polovcians Aristocracy.

Символика на майчиното мляко и кърменето при българите

Author(s): Irina Aleksandrovna Sedakova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2014

This ethnolinguistic article focuses on the symbolism and mythological issues of mother’s milk and nursing in Bulgarian traditional childbirth customs and folk medicine. The study is based on lexical, phraseological, folklore and ritual published, archival and author’s field data. Ontological features of milk (liquid, white color, temporality, nutrition qualities) develop symbolism and correlate with other “synonymic” objects (water, bread, onions) and actions (movement, walking). The magic connection made through breastfeeding and milk gets ritual dimension and is regarded as spiritual bias (“milk relationship”) and is depicted in folklore and taken into account by folk law.

Дейността на Ржевското уездно земство в областта на народното образование

Author(s): Natalia Vladislavovna Novikova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2014

Article presents educational policies at state and local level during second half of 19th century. It explores development of popular schools, libraries and opened access to books in the villages of Rjev region. Special attention has been paid to development of teachers’ school.

Електронната агора на британската общност в България

Author(s): Desislava Rangelova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2014

The formation of the British community in Bulgaria is a migration process, described as lifestyle migration that became with mass character in the early 21st century, the peak was registered between 2006 and 2008. In the communication process of the British community we can observe two types of boundaries, which in this study I called external and internal. The external is between real and virtual world, it is very porous and easily overcome, but in the absence of an internet connection and technological device it solidify. The British generate new levels of access to social membership that are created by them, assuming that they are internal.

Селищното етнокултурно пространство и обредните трапези

Author(s): Georgi Georgiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2013

The article examines the traditional Bulgarian ritual table which marks the permanent appropriation of the space of a settlement: the foundation of a new settlement, building a new house, the digging of a new well. It also looks at the ritual table in the process of taking vows. These tables are presented as ritual situations, in which food and nourishment play a central role.

Отзив: Пейковска, П. Българските общности в Унгария през ХIХ-ХХ в. Миграции и историко- демографска характеристика. София, 2011, 402 с.

Author(s): Kalcho Kalchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2013

Помощното движение в Добруджа по време на Съединението и в навечерието на Сръбско- българската война от 1885 г

Author(s): Veliko Lechev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2012

The article analyses different activities undertaken by the aid movement in Dobrudja which was launched after the act of unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia on 6 September 1885. It throws light on the activity of the subsidiary committees in major cities – Dobrich, Silistra and Balchik. Attention is paid to the aid campaign for fund raising, providing food and clothing, which was organized among Bulgarians in Northern Dobrudja. Three volunteer detachments were equipped with the funds raised and they fought selflessly during the Serbo-Bulgarian war of 1885 defending the Unification of Bulgaria.

День рождения как ритуальный регулятор возрастного перехода – современные модели и практики празднования

Author(s): Elena Petrova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2012

This article gives an idea of possible approaches on dynamics of contemporary celebration of life-circle fests. The author attempts to organize in a system her findings during field work related to new emerging birthday’s parties.

Развитие на търговска фирма “Н. Минчоолу & Е. Селвели и съдружие” и търговията им през ХІХ век

Author(s): Yumico Hayasaka / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2012

“Nikola Minchoolu & Evstati Selveli and association” is one of the biggest trading companies in Bulgaria from 1840s’ to 1860s’, the last decades under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The company was located in Veliko Turnovo and developed by transit trade between Istanbul and Western Europe (Vienna). This article explains about their branches on Bulgarian territory along the Danube, formation of the trading networks and trading skills. They had own “Khan” (Caravansary), a big storehouse and shops in the center of Veliko Turnovo. Nikola Minchoolu also subsidized some constructions and restorations of churches in this city by his own means. He is not only a merchant, but also a politician and a prominent person. It is considered that these investments contributed to the city and supported his social status at the same time.

Рецензия: Здравко Здравков. Семейни и родствени структури при циганските групи в България. Университетско издателство „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“, В. Търново, 2013 г.

Author(s): Margarita Karamihova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2012

Рецензия: Игнат Минков. Етноси и глобализационни общности. ИК „ТИП-ТОП ПРЕС”, София, 2011

Author(s): Zdravko Zdravkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2012

За един случай на предаване на лечителски опит на терена

Author(s): Rachko Popov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2011

The article follows the stories of the field’s records relating to the magical cure of various diseases. Central to this is the story of one lady, who is a healer from Staro Stefanovo, Lovech area, and who, in 1987, submitted her experience and wisdom to the author.

Религиозен туризъм или наченки на поклонничество? (Изследване на отделен случай – пътувания до Метеори, Гърция)

Author(s): Margarita Karamihova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2011

This article presents some of the results from a study of tourist tours to Holy Meteora, Northern Greece, one of the most popular destinations for shortterm tourism in contemporary Bulgaria. The aim of this study is to objectively measure, identify, and characterize those tours having (or declaratively designed as having) some characteristics of pilgrimage or religious tourism as a newly emerging phenomenon in post-socialist Bulgaria in a real context, where real choices made by tourists are observed. The main questions to be explored are: if tourism to holy shrines still remains a “pure” tourist trip; if religious tourism to holy places traces its path to turn into a pilgrimage; what the reasons for the observed processes and who the agents to manage this complex process are

Формирането на Европейския съюз като глобализациона общност. (Етноложки аспекти)

Author(s): Ignat Minkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2011

The article presents the EU as a new, globalization community, whose specificity and organic system is defined by the characteristics that give her cultures of European nations in the process of their further development. The homogenisation process of the EU reveals optimal opportunities for the Bulgarian national community and its culture – to overcome the depersonalization of them today and its negative processes, for their new revival as an organizer of the Bulgarian society and the equal of other European nations and a builder of prosperous Europe.

The Radish (Raphanus L.) in selected Sources from Antiquity and the Byzantine Period

Author(s): Maciej Kokoszko,Krzysztof Jagusiak,Jolanta Dybała / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The article deals with the role of radish (Raphanus L.) in ancient and Byzantine world. The study is based on selected sources written between 5th/4th c. BC and 7th c. AD. Among them authors analyzed medical treatises composed by anonymous Hippocratic author (5th/4th c. BC), Galen (2nd – 3rd c. AD), Oribasius (4th c. AD), Aetius of Amida (6th c. AD), and Paul of Aegina (7th c. AD), botanical works written by Theophrastus (4th c. BC) and Dioscurides (1st c. AD), and a treatise of different (literary, antiquarian, historical, culinary) character made by Athenaeus of Naucratis in 2nd c. AD. The vegetable under study was a common and cheap food in ancient and Byzantine times, known in many varieties and eaten often by the poorest part of society. It was also widely used by physicians in healing illnesses of different etiology, used its warming, drying and cathartic properties.

Язык кыпчаков: попытка исторической характеристики

Author(s): Yaroslav V. Pylypchuk / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2018

This article is dedicated to the history of Qipchaq language. In this paper analyzing the question whether it is possible to consider the Turkic language of «Codex Cumaniсus» were lanlguage of Qipchaqs in the IX–XIII centuries. Vocabulary of Makhmud al-Kashgari was the only one dictionary which remained Qipchaq language of 11th century. Qipchaq language, other than vocabulary in this dictionary, presents of anthroponyms and ethnonyms in historical sources from different countries. Qipchaq language of 9th–13th centuries should have been closer to Oghuz language.

Рецензия: Коледните песни на хърцоите. "Хърцон, том I - Коледни песни", Съставил и редактор: проф. Тодор Моллов, изд. РИМ - Русе, ИИК "РОД", Русе 2013 ISBN 978-954-476-062-5

Author(s): Svetla Dzhivtereva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2014

В памет на Пламен Събев (1960–2019)

Author(s): Nevena Nedelcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

„Стари“/„нови“ селища и административни центрове в османското провинциално управление: Ала кинисе/Осман пазар и Хоталич/Серви (Селви) (по османски документи от XV–XVІІ век)

Author(s): Krasimira Mutafova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

The study raises questions about the fate of the medieval Bulgarian fortresses and urban centers in the system of Ottoman provincial administration, which has repeatedly been discussed in Balkan and Ottoman studies. These debates are constantly related to the issues of continuity in the administration and ruling of the Bulgarian lands, evidenced in the territorial overlap of the medieval administrative structures with the new Ottoman ones, as well as in the names of the sanjaks, nahiyes and vilayets. One of the problems that is yet to be completely solved has to do with the medieval fortresses and settlements, registered with their pre-Ottoman names as important administrative centers in the system of Ottoman provincial administration (nahiyes, vilayets, kazas), but most likely destroyed during the conquest or earlier. New settlements are developing near them which have different names but the same administrative functions. Many of them are problematic to be localized, but for centuries, these “old” settlements and centers of power have been referred to in parallel with the “new” settlements as another name (nam-i diğer) for the respective administrative centers. The present study focuses on two of the examples of continuity and parallel designation of the “old”/“new” settlements – nahiye Ala Kinise (Kilisa)/ Osman Pazar and nahiye Hotaliç/ Servi (Selvi). These administrative-territorial units are typical of the Ottoman model of administration at local level, as well as regarding the presence of a particular continuity from the medieval Bulgarian state. The complex approach applied in the research and interpretation of the Ottoman register material allows us not only to trace the indications of continuity in the development of individual settlements, but also to understand the pre-Ottoman period of their existence within the medieval Bulgarian state. In a broader sense, it provides a real opportunity for a well-grounded reconstruction of the Ottoman model of power, demographic and economic control of the Bulgarian lands at local level.

Църковно строителство в Североизточна България през 50-те – 70-те години на ХІХ век

Author(s): Nevena Nedelcheva,Aldzhan Dzhafer / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2022

This report presents the construction of churches in Eski Juma, Osman Pazar, Hezargrad, and in several other settlements in the 1850s – 1870s. It also focuses on the procedures for building churches and on the reasons for their mass construction in the region under review during this period. The study analyzes the applications of the population, their reasons, and the ethnic composition of the settlements studied. In addition, the paper discusses issues concerning the construction of the churches themselves, their size, organization, and financing.