СТАРИНА: ОБСАДАТА И ОТБРАНАТА НА ОДРИН: ДВА ПОГЛЕДА ОТВЪТРЕ
OLD TIMES: THE SIEGE AND DEFENSE OF EDIRNE: TWO INSIDE VIEWS

Summary/Abstract: There is a lot of direct evidence in the documentary literature in Bulgarian about the siege and defense of Edirne, the most important moment in the course of the Balkan War. They find expression mainly in memoirs and diaries, which contain and reflect the view from the outside, when the fortress city is under attack. In many testimonies there is a description of the condition of the city, which had already fallen after several months of heavy siege, and its inhabitants. On the other hand, there are almost no testimonies that reveal the immediate experiences of the people in the besieged city. In the present text, through the diary of Angele Guéron, director of the Alliance‘s Girls‘ School in the city, and the report of Archimandrite Nicodemus, which is being published for the first time, an attempt is made to show the hitherto absent gaze from within.

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