How Sofia became a capital or the story of a fatal attraction
How Sofia became a capital or the story of a fatal attraction

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the issues of the demographic dynamics in the capital city of the new Bulgarian state during the period from the Berlin Congress to the beginning of the Balkan War. When Sofia was selected for new governmental centre of the principality, it represented a miserable and forgotten by the authorities provincial town, which was turned into a European city and a complete national centre by the Bulgarian government in few short decades. The study of the demographic changes accompanying this process, creates an appropriate occasion to delineate the main features of the modernization of the Bulgarian society.

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