Река Дунав — граница па българското пространство през XV-XVII в.
The River Danube as the Boundary of Bulgarian Space in the 15th-17th Centuries

Summary/Abstract: The memories of the political heritage from the last years of the history of Medieval Bulgaria, as well as the political reality of the several subsequent centuries, turned the river Danube into a basic frontier marker of the Bulgarian space in the concep¬tions of the Bulgarians living during those centurires. In Bulgarian folklore, the "quiet", "white", "turbulent" Dunabe, along with the Aegean and the Black Sea, was the firmly established frontier line, closing in the Bulgarian space, beyond which were the "cursed foreign lands". Unlike the seaside coasts, which have preserved their mythological characteristics of setting apart the "other", "foreign", "unfamil¬iar" world, the river Danube has been the link with a different, but accessible, famil¬iar and close reality. It has been setting apart the Bulgarian space, without, however, leaving the Bulgarians in isoloation. The major waterway has been the basic connec¬tion of vital importance with Christian Europe, and its extending multiple function¬ality has played a tremendous role in the life of the Bulgarian people.

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