Европейските провинции на Османската империя през XVI–XVII век в най-новите трудове на унгарски и български историци (1985–1996) (Опит за сравнителен анализ)
The European Provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th – 17th c. in the Latest Works of Hungarian and Bulgarian Historians (1985–1996) (Attempt at a Comparative Analysis)

Summary/Abstract: The brief parallel survey of the studies during the last decade into the European provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th – 17th c. in historiography permits the drawing of some most general conclusions. The large number of scholarly studies and their indubitable scientific merits continue to uphold the high prestige of Bulgarian and Hungarian science in the field of Ottoman research, built up and consolidated already in the preceding decades, noticeable and fully understandable is the preference of the preference of the researchers for their native history during the Ottoman period, examined within the natural ethnic boundaries of the Hungarian and Bulgarian lands respectively. Problems of the political, economic and cultural history and also of historical demography are dealt with in harmony. Practically without exception the research is carried out on the basis of abundant newly found source material and contains important factual and conceptual contributions. A drawing closer of the stands of Hungarian and Bulgarian Osmanists emerges in the interpretation of historical events. Some romantic and extreme assessments which retain as their perimeter chiefly more popular publications are being abandoned. Studies by Hungarian and Bulgarian Osmanists ever more often are present in thematic collections and other publications brought out in Germany, Great Britain, France, Austria, Russia, Turkey and elsewhere. One should regret, however, that the Bulgarian and Hungarian historians, with very few exceptions, do not know each other as authors. If this historiographic survey stimulates at least to some degree greater mutual scientific interest, it could considered that it has realized, though partially, its intention.

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