За произхода на българските селища в Бесарабия и в Южна Русия
On the Origin of the Bulgarian Settlements in Bessarabia and South Russia

Summary/Abstract: From 1752 onwards the Bulgarian population of the Ottoman Empire began to emigrate to South Russia and Bessarabia. It created its own colonies in what was the Chersonese at that time and in the province of Taurus. Some of the emigrants settled in the cities and towns of these regions. The old sites from which Bulgarian emigrants came to Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries have not yet been established by scholars. Only the regions from which emigration took place in the Bulgarian lands in bondage are known. These regions are restricted between the towns of Silistra—Dobrich (today Tolbukhin—Shoumen—Varna—Sliven—Yambol) and Adrianople (today Edirne). Emigrants also came from the regions of Vidin, Lom, Belogradcliik and other places. On the basis of studies of Russian and Bulgarian philologists and ethnographers, the memories of the Bessarabian Bulgarians and materials in the Russian and Bulgarian 19th and 20th century press, the author determines the original settlements of 32 Bulgarian colonies in Bessarabia, of six in the Province of Chersonese and 13 in that of the Taurus, formed after 1861. As to the colonies the Chersoness and the Taurus, formed before 1861, in his work the author extends the existing conceptions about the towns and villages from which the population in these colonies had come.

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