Паисий Хилендарски
Paisiy Hilendarski

Author(s): Velcho Velchev
Subject(s): History, History of ideas, Local History / Microhistory, Social history, Modern Age
Published by: Издателство „Захари Стоянов“
Keywords: Paisiy Hilendarski; Bulgarian Enlightenment; Ottoman Empire
Summary/Abstract: As prof. Velcho Velchev says, there is something special in the personality and historical role of Paisiy Hilendarski as the founder of the Bulgarian Enlightenment. He was the first in his time to introduce ideas of national self-determination, resistance and struggle into the minds of our compatriots in the transitional historical period when the feudal system in the Ottoman Empire began to be shaken.

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