ULOGA FRANJEVACA U OBLIKOVANJU IDENTITETA ZAPADNOHERCEGOVAČKIH HRVATA

Author(s): Ivica Šarac / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2015

Western parts of Herzegovina represent in some aspects an atypical place in the BH collective identity whirlpool. The national identity formation processes in West Herzegovina encompass religious, regional and wider national and integrational frames. In all phases it was Franciscans who were the main bearers of these processes. In the second part of the 19th ct. among Herzegovinian Franciscans we have the very first signs of the cultural and political activities, that will in the Ottoman and later in the Austro-Hungarian context have the form of religious, cultural and political organizing on the Croatian national level. The national identity discourse will with time go deeper (through pastoral activities, better traffic connections, organized teaching activities in the villages, through the press, erecting schools etc.). It will grasp Westherzegovinian Catholic villagers already in the time of Austro-Hungarian rule. The changes brought by World War I, especially the advent of the political, party life to the world of villagers as well as more and more intensive political national animosities in the monarchic Yugoslavia, will finish the processes of national defining of all social layers in Western Herzegovina.

ТРАКТОВКИ ХАДИСА О РАСКОЛЕ УММЫ В ТРУДАХ ТАТАРСКИХ РЕФОРМАТОРОВ ИСЛАМА

Author(s): Damir Adgamovich Shagaviev / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3 (2)/2013

The article deals with the opinions of Tatar theologists who were the representatives of the so-called Jadidism – a reformatory movement of Tatar Muslims that took place in the 19th and early 20th centuries – in relation to the Prophet Muhammad’s saying about the schism in his community and the afterlife salvation of only one of its groups. The analysis is based on the theological works of four prominent Tatar scholars of Islam: A. Kursavi, Sh. Marjani, R. Fakhretdinov, and M. Bigiev. These works are studied in chronological order to reveal the evolution of the views concerning the entire Muslim reformatory movement among the Tatars in general. In addition, the question as to whether the Tatar theological heritage can foster tolerance among modern Muslims is considered.

Правописът на Марин Дринов – минало, съвременност, бъдъште

Author(s): Peter K. Petrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1-2/2015

Marin Drinov’s views on the structure of the new Bulgarian literary and mainly – unified Bulgarian spelling are a significant portion of his versatile scientific work. The article focuses on these views. And its author Peter Petrov observes spelling closest to that of Marin Drinov. The paper is published without editorial intervention.

Художници и фотографи от ХІХ в. в търсене и представяне на българската национална идентичност в Русия

Author(s): Blagovesta Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

The study explores the understanding of identity in the works of art of the Revivalartists Nikolai Pavlovich and Georgi Danchov. The two were selected among theartists who worked until the Bulgarian liberation due to their strong affinity for depictingin their works of art the attire of the Bulgarians. With Nikolai Pavlovich, thestriving for looking for specimens reflecting the Bulgarian medieval identity wasexpressed in a visit to the centre of the Slavic community in Odessa in 1860-61.The opposite is true with respect to the works of Georgi Danchov. He “exported”ideas embodying the Bulgarian national identity at the Ethnographic Exhibition ofthe Imperial Society in Moscow in 1867. Georgi Danchov took part in the exhibitiontogether with the prominent Bulgarian photographer Hadji Kavra on the advice of theRussian Vice Consul in Plovdiv, Nayden Gerov. The works of the two artists were notpreserved due to which what is analyzed are the detailed verbal descriptions of thelithographs, drawings and colour photographs that showed the attire and lifestyle in19th century Bulgaria.

Записки по българска история на С. С. Бобчев от 1867–1868 г.

Author(s): Petar Parvanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2014

The text presents an unpublished source for Bulgarian development. Notes on Bulgarian history written by S. S. Bobchev in 1867-1868 years. They tracked Bulgarian history from antiquity to the time of their writing. Records give insight into the understanding of Bulgarian history during the 19th century, seen through the eyes of a fourteen to fifteen-years-old boy.

UN SISTEM JURIDIC-ADMINISTRATIV DE ORIGINE VECHE GERMANICĂ REFLECTAT ÎNTR-O FAMILIE LEXICALĂ ROMÂNEASCĂ (BAN, BĂNAT, BĂNI, BĂNUI, BÂNTUI)

Author(s): Adrian Poruciuc / Language(s): English,Romanian Issue: 1/2016

One can rarely find a series of cognates as significant – for both the post-ancient history of Southeast-Central Europe and for the Old Germanic domain – as the Romanian lexical family that includes ban ‘feudal title of nobility’ and ban ‘coin, money’. It is rather surprising that no one has decisively propounded Old Germanic origins for those Romanian words as well as for their obvious relatives in neighbouring languages. Such a situation is most probably due to the fact that some earlier (Avar-Turkic-Hungarian) etymological explanations regarding the ban family came to be considered as definitive solutions, so they became a kind of “etymological axioms” transmitted from author to author up until the present day. The main point of this study is to demonstrate that the Romanian lexical family represented by terms such as ban, bănat, băni, bănui and bântui (plus many significant derivatives) are far from being just borrowings from the languages of today’s neighbours of the Romanians. In their earliest recorded meanings, the Romanian words under discussion show surprising unity, since they all reflect a proto-feudal juridical-administrative system that can be clarified only by reference to the original semantic sphere of Germanic words such as German Bann, Swedish bann or English ban. The general conclusion of this study (divided into two parts, to be published in two consecutive issues of Arheologia Moldovei) is that Romanian, as continuant of the Vulgar Latin spoken in Southeast Europe, preserved a lexical family based on Old Germanic loans with meanings that look even more archaic than the ones of the ban family (of Frankish origin) which survived in the French language.

За един малко известен демонологичен персонаж „бробняча“ (По теренни материали от гр. Чипровци)

Author(s): Vanya Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1-2/2017

The current article is devoted to a not so widely known in the specialized Bulgarian ethnological literature demonic creature, mostly known in two villages in Northwestern Bulgaria (Chiprovtsi and Zhelezna) and called brobnyacha. The lexeme brobnyacha can only be found in one official Bulgarian language dictionary – the one published in 1908 by N. Gerov. When trying to position the brobnyacha in the Bulgarian and South Balkan folklore mythological pantheon it turns out to be a combined image of different supernatural demonic creatures’ characteristics – vampir – vampire, samodiva – fairy, karakondzhul etc, but without enough common ground with any of them (in terms of chronotopic positioning and actual actions). It is also impossible to sort the brobnyacha as one of the well-known types of witch (magyosnitsa, mamnitsa, bayachka, znaharka, veshtica) among the same regions of Orthodox population. However, the comparative analysis made points to similarities and allows for analogies with the tragically known ‘witch hunting’ in Central and Western Europe. There are also many similarities to witches from the classical fiction literature. In the search of an acceptable explanation, the hypothesis is presented that after the Chiprovtsi uprising in 1688, part of the refugees who at first settle in lands controlled by the Hapsburgs at that time could have become witnesses to ‘belated’ trials against witches in the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century. Since the fate of many of those refugees and their descendants remains unknown, it is logical to conclude that some of them returned to Chiprovtsi and memories of the witch trials have been transformed in the image of the brobnyacha. According to some of the informants the brobnyacha of Chiprovtsi vomits the blood drunk – the same actions is to be seen by the so-called striga of the mountains in Northern Albania. This does not seem to be coincidental and, if the theory about an Albanian presence in the described area of the Chiprovtsi region before 1688 is accepted, which can be confirmed also through the recording of typical Albanian given names in the Ottoman Empire’s tax registers from the region.

Име и идентичност – наблюдение върху особеностите на именната система в района на Мики (Мустафчево), Помакохория, Северна Гърция

Author(s): Gergana Tzoneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 16/2018

Today within the Northern Greece still can be heard an old Rhodopy dialect, which is not spoken long ago, even in Bulgaria. Bearers of this language are more than 11 500 inhabitants. The area is known as Western Thrace, West Rhodopes mountain areas of Northern Greece or increasingly popular name Pomakohoriya – i.e. Pomak villages (translated from Greek). The “minority”, as it is called, according to official government terminology, speaks “pomatski”.Common practice today is even separate neighborhoods to be called by the names of their inhabitants. These names are coming often from family names, kinship or paternal (patronims), and differ from the official names and surnames, used from the subjects of the Hellenic Republic.134 Back in time, little more than fifty years, the names were given and chosen in several ways. The most common was the name of grandparents or other close relative of the child – “to do not forget the name” or with the following custom: “Take five-six wooden spoons and assign a name to each, put them in the river and which spoon overtake, give this name of the child. Few days after birth or on the fortieth day, the child is brought to the imam who read him prayer and whispers in his ear three times the name that will bear”.Old, traditional names are only five or six and to distinguish individuals, are used illustrative or household names that often are coming from the kinship name and much less from the official family name. These names are most commonly associated with the name of the father (i.e. middle name) or the mother, the name of the village or the craft of the kinship or the man, so that it cannot be confused easily.For various reasons, mostly health related, the name of the newborn can be changed, which believes to lead the child to better luck and will help his normal growth.Concerning middle (second) names, can be noted that in Pomako¬horiya is observed similar to that process, described by Olga Zirojevic in “Islamization of South Slavic world” of the Balkans. In Bosnia and Herzegovina is not a rare case only the personal name of the newly con¬verted to be Muslim and father’s name to remain the old, like here com¬monly used patronim as a sign of belonging: Ahmet Yusufov – Ahmet, the son of Yusuf, or Djemile Raffia (Rafin) – Djemile, the daughter of Rafia, Mehmetali Hoxha – Mehmetli, the son of the imam (hoxha).Here is how in the real world, we found a different, parallel universe, which has its own laws and rules.

Светите места в село Драгушиново

Author(s): Georgi Zahov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 16/2018

The main aim of the article is to enlist the holy places in the village of Dragushinovo, Samokov area. They are the following: church ‘St. Teodor Tiron’; chapel ‘Holy Spirit’ and the sacred site ‘Krasto’. The church is located in the centre of the village of Dragushinovo. It was sanctified in 1869 and it was dedicated to St. TeodorTiron (Theo¬dore of Amasea). Traditionally, a special crab cake is made on this day. The walls of the church were painted by zograf Mihail Belstoynev from Samokov. The chapel ‘Holy Spirit’ is located on top of peak Dabeto, located two kilometers away from Dragushinovo. The holiday of the Holy Spirit is celebrated by the miners from the area. The sacred site ‘Krasto’ is located on top of the ridge peak. The place marks the spot where an old sacred cross was situated. The local people gathered there to take part in the local fair.

Encomia in the Slavonic Сopies of Euthymius Zigabenos’s Panoplia Dogmatike

Author(s): Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2017

The paper examines the texts encomia in the Slavonic copies that contain the First and the Second book of Euthymios Zigabenos’s 12th century Panoplia Dogmatike. The focus is on the following written evidence: the Slavonic translation of PD First book from the first to the 11th chapter included in two manuscripts: HM.SMS 186 – a 16th century copy from Hilandar monastery, and another 16th century manuscript – miscellany III c 16, Mihanovich collection in HAZU; the only copy containing the Second Book of PD in Slavonic – Ms. Slav. BAR 296 from the repository in the Library of the Romanian Academy of Sciences in Bucharest, dated from the very beginning of the 15th century; the famous Zagreb miscellany of Vladislav the Grammarian from 1469 with excerpts from PD. The texts of encomia are published as a complex for the first time. The author sustains the hypothesis that the Slavonic translation of PD had a close connection with the Athonite monastic brotherhood, whose orthodoxy and orthopraxy was the main engine for both the appearance of the translation, and its subsequent use and spread, especially in Ottoman times, when the Orthodoxy, more than ever, needed the dogmatic bases of its identity. The article tries to answer the question about the role of encomia in this process.

In Memory' of Varbinka. Novae and the Barbaric Incursions in 238 - 251

Author(s): Kamen D. Dimitrov / Language(s): English Issue: 15/2005

Brygische Spuren im thrakischen Sprachgebiet

Author(s): Ivan Duridanov / Language(s): German Issue: 3/1993

Old Sacral Songs about the Beginning of the Universe

Author(s): Ignacy Ryszard Danka / Language(s): English Issue: 6/1996

Brojčano kretanje Židova na području Bjelovarsko-križevačke županije (1857. - 1918.)

Author(s): Ljiljana Dobrovšak / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 4/2011

The paper states some of the most basic historical and statistic data regarding the Jewish community in the Bjelovar-Križevci County between 1857 and 1918. In the period between 1857 and 1922, the name and the borders of the Bjelovar-Križevci County changed on several occasions (the Bjelovar County, particularly the Križevci County, then the Bjelovar-Križevci County, and finally the Bjelovar-Bilogora County); similarly did the borders of the interior districts, which fact hindered the research to a certain extent. Hence, this paper focuses on the demographic changes in the period between the census of 1880 and the census of 1910. Though the presence of the first Jews in the area of the Bjelovar-Križevci County was recorded rather early – at the beginning of the 19th century, more precise demographic reports are dated only after 1851, or rather 1857 – the year of the first official census. Each of the censuses between the 1850s and 1918 (1857, 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910) listed a higher number of Jews; finally, in 1910, 2,406 Jews inhabited the Bjelovar-Križevci County, mostly the Bjelovar district and the County’s urban area (Bjelovar, Koprivnica and Križevci). In the area of the Berak Municipality, very few Jews lived (a couple of families), while they had never inhabited Podgarić.

За някои медийни метаморфози (как „чалгари“ стават „лидери на граждански каузи“)

Author(s): Ventsislav Dimov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2019

The proposed article shares observations on with the construction of the image of the star in ethno-pop music and the role of the media and media music, with two cases - Slavi Trifonov and Azis. At first glance, they seem very different, but they are actually quite similar - as with the mechanisms of media imposition of the image of the star and the use of the media in the construction of public resources and attachment to civilian causes. The article attempts to interpret current cultural phenomena through their media projections, using Joseph Nye's theoretical statements on soft power; Tyler Cowen's for the Economics of Glory.

История, етнология и биография в ръкопис по граматика

Author(s): Evgeny Marushev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 18/2019

The text describes the grammatical manuscript “Dodavka na slavyanskata gramatika” by Dimitar Yanakiev Biserov from Dupnitsa town. It reveals the important personal qualities of the author, his birthplace and his epoch – the middle part of 19th century.

Имената от стените

Author(s): Ivanka Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 18/2019

The study deals with ‘regained’ popularity of the names SIMONIDA (in Serbia) and DESISLAVA (in Bulgaria). Cultural events related to literature, theater, cinema, television made those names fashionable in the XX century, while their current presence in the naming practice has a sociopolitical hint.

Моско Велев, познатият-непознат зограф

Author(s): Teodor Peev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 18/2019

Mosho Velev is a master painter from Edirne. He is one of the iconographers who belong to the so-called “Strandja iconography school”. He has been known since the end of the third decade of the nineteenth century. He is an excellent scholar like muralist and icon maker, familiar with iconography of biblical, evangelical and festive subjects. His work is characterized by strict canonics, good composition and rich color. His work has been preserved on the territory of the country between 1836 and 1858. Studying and collecting his work is an addition to the history of the art of painting in our lands of the nineteenth century.

Прилог кон творештвото на самоковските маjстори во Кочанско

Author(s): Ilinka Atanasova / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 18/2019

Great number of sacral objects from the Renaissance period in the northeastern part of Rеpublic of North Macedonia contain work from the opus of the Samokov zographs. Work of one of the representatives of the second generation of Samokov masters, Dimitar Hristov, was recognized in the objects from the renaissance period in Kochani according to its stylistic features. The throne icons in the churches in the villages of Orizari, Zrnovci, and Spanchevo, as well as in the church of St. Georgi in Kochani are being interpreted as his work. His successors mark the second half of the XIX century sacred creation. We will generally focus on the work of the son Zakhariy Dospevski Samokovets. Several works in the churches in the villages of Beli, Nivichani and Pantelej in the area of Kochani, dated from 1872 to 1876, are marked with his signature. The little church “The Birth of the Mother of God” in the monastery St. Pantelejmon in the village of Pantelej is com-pletely his accomplishment. Special emphasis will be put on the composition of The Last Judgment and scenes from the aerial pay toll located in the eastern wall of the open narthex in the Church of the Birth of the Mother of God, with a parallel of the church rituals of one hand, and the preserved tradition and folk beliefs and practices associated with death on the other hand.

Заштита на стопанските места во доцноантичкиот период во Виничкиот, Кочанскиот, Штипскиот и Светиниколскиот регион

Author(s): Trajce Nacev,Dragan Veselinov / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 18/2019

The mines, roads and border crossing points in the Late Antique period represented places that were of great importance for the development of the economy in a society. Because of this significance, these economic places in the Late Antiquity were protected in purpose to defend them428selves from various hostile activities. The protection of the economic places during this period was realized through the construction of fortifications. These types of fortifications from the Late Antique period are also found in the regions of Vinica, Kochani, Shtip and Sveti Nikole.The mines, roads and border crossing points in the Late Antique period represented places that were of great importance for the development of the economy in a society. Because of this significance, these economic places in the Late Antiquity were protected in purpose to defend themselves from various hostile activities. The protection of the economic places during this period was realized through the construction of fortifications. These types of fortifications from the Late Antique period are also found in the regions of Vinica, Kochani, Shtip and Sveti Nikole.