Troglodytes in Thrace 1. Sources and Location

Author(s): Stoyanka Dimitrova / Language(s): English Issue: 23-24/2017

The present text is the first part of a broader study and it provides a new perspective to certain aspects of the issue of the Troglodytes in Thrace. The analysis and the reinterpretation of the available written evidence lead to reconsidering of the traditional view that Troglodytes inhabited the territories close to the Danube Delta, or lived in the caves along the Black Sea coast, giving arguments for a new localisation in the interior of the Getic lands.

Thracian Toponymy until the End of the First Millennium BC

Author(s): Svetlana Yanakieva / Language(s): English,Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Issue: 22/2015

The study of Thracian toponymy with a view to chronology has different aspects. The history of each source gives a more precise picture of the chronology of the attesting of the data. Tracing the chronology of emergence is of greater significance both in linguistic and in historical plan. Owing to the areal positioning of toponymic isoglosses or isoglosses of toponymic elements, the conclusion reached in the study concerns the chronology of the emergence of groups of toponyms united by common characteristics. Tracing their propagation leads to the conclusion that the oldest layer of Thracian toponymy has lexical and word-forming parallels with the pre-Greek toponymy in the southern and western parts of the Balkan Peninsula and in Asia Minor. There is a newer layer that demonstrates lexical parallels only within the Thracian linguistic space. It comprises the settlement names with two roots and with second components recurring repeatedly, whose dissemination occurred successively throughout the first millennium BC. On the whole, the models for the formation of the Thracian toponymy were completed by the end of the first millennium BC.

Newly-Discovered Equipment in the Thracian Tumular Necropolis near Shipka and Sheynovo

Author(s): Georgi Kitov / Language(s): English Issue: 3/1993

Paleobalkan Linguistic Heritage and the Languages of Balkan-Carpathian Area

Author(s): Irina A. Kaluzhskaya / Language(s): English Issue: 3/1993

La thracologie dans le cadre des études indo-européennes

Author(s): Kiril Iordanov,Kalin Porozhanov / Language(s): French Issue: 3/1993

Sanskrit sanóti, Greek ἄνῡμι and αὐθέντης

Author(s): Georgi Rikov / Language(s): English Issue: 4/1994

L. Loukoupoulou, Contribution à l'histoire de la Thrace Propontique, Athènes 1989

Author(s): Mirena Slavova / Language(s): French Issue: 4/1994

Сирена и трюфели – храната като наследство

Author(s): Vihra Barova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The main topic of the article is the transformation of the local food into cultural heritage. Examining specific examples, it reveals the actions of big and small agribusiness players who “re-discover their connection with tradition”, play the role of guardians of the local heritage, and engage themselves in private negotiation and public presentation of the food, by means of which to educate the public with regard to the “rediscovering” and cultural valuation of the local products. The specific ethnographic description includes information from two regions – the Municipality of Smolyan in the Central Rhodope Mountains and the Municipality of Ugarchin on the foothills to the North of Stara Planina mountain. The regions are presented in comparative perspective but also as a common ground of local food valuation. The“traditional” dairy products are at the core of the valorization in the first region, and the “local” truffles – of the second. In addition to the study of the relationships, which these products generate on the ground, the article examines two specific festivals (the yoghurt Festival in the village of Momchilovtsi and the Truffle Fest in the town of Ugarchin) that present the scene of the heritage and the relations between the various social actors symbolically and literally

Спектакълът на изисканото хранене заедно. Нови форми на празничност в София и преобръщане на употребите на публичното пространство

Author(s): Velislava Petrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The article focuses on two forms of appropriation of the urban space by new forms of festivity organized around food consumption. Although the new forms intervene with public space and use its ideology, these practices rather question the general access to it. Usually, they are organized as private events but following the logic of new capitalism, they insist on a higher, often non-commercial, purpose that adds value to the experience. This may be the demonstrative struggle against wastefulness or aestheticization of food consumption in the public space as a form of creating experiences. The new media play a key role in the experiencing and producing of these events: from their disclosure and access to the organization of their visual identity.

Ролята на фотографията. Бурел век по-късно

Author(s): Petya B. Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

In the early 20th century, the Bulgarian anthropogeographer Krum Dronchilov, Ph.D. conducted field research in the 23 villages located near the road between Dragoman and Tran. His publication “Burel. Anthropogeographic Studies” is at the root of a second research which I conducted in 2017 – 2018 – “Burel a Century Later: Changes in the Region (a Comparison with an Anthropogeographic Research of 1923)”. The second research as well as this article mark the main changes registered in the region and my observations regarding the positions of researcher and respondents in the 21st century. In order to present the second research in a modern, efficient and intriguing way, the use of audio and visual methods in collecting and presenting the material should be considered a necessary element. The expectations related to the audio-visual established in the 21st century lead to changes in the structures and conceptualization of the scientific texts. In unison with this thesis, the selection of Burel’s photographs in the article is not a mere supplement but a foundation upon which I build my comments.

Единайсет минути „бездеятелен“ отдих на ден

Author(s): Katerina Gadjeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The free time was one of the most important results of the political and economic changes in Bulgaria during the 1960s; it was a peculiar “reward“ for the people who had put all their strength in the hard and wearisome work typical of the previous decade. But although it was presented as “free“, the time people had after the working day or working week was not free of ideological control at all; just the opposite, there were directives, plans and norms for it as well. According to them, only the activities orientated to the physical, intellectual, spiritual and social development of the character were considered “free time“. The article interprets photographs published in some of the popular periodicals in Bulgaria by means of which ideology constructed the idea of a correct organization of the free time of the citizens of socialistBulgaria in the 1960s. The article focuses not on the documentary but on artistic images and attempts to trace the process of transformation of certain everyday practices into beautiful views “advertising“ the ideologically legitimate activities.

Анатол Анчев. Фолклорът на работниците от едно звено на каналджийска бригада. София, 2017

Author(s): Ivanka Petrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

Полша – Между Изтока и Запада

Author(s): Michał Kopczyński / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2016

Кръст и полумесец – из историята на полско-османското съперничество през XVII век

Author(s): Dariusz Milewski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2016

The article discusses the history of Polish-Ottoman rivalry for influence in the Balkans and Ukraine during XVII century. After the peaceful government of the Jagiellonian dynasty this rivalry renewed at the end of the 16th century during the Ottoman-Habsburg war. Poland wanted to return positions in Moldavia, lost to Ottoman empire at the end of the XV and the beginning of XVI century. Thanks to the skillful Polish policy, Moldavian throne was occupied by the Movilă dynasty, friendly to both Poland and Ottoman empire. Unfortunately, in the first quarter of the XVII century the Ottomans established full control over Moldavia, after the Polish-Ottoman war of 1620 – 1621. The hostilities were resumed in 1672 – this time Ottomans sought to conquer Ukraine and partly got the chance (the truce with Poland in Żurawno of 1676 and the peace treaty of 1678). These losses gave Poland reason to engage in the war against Ottomans in 1683, as a result Podole and Ukraine were reclaimed. But the Polish attempts to conquer Moldavia remained unsuccessful. The Karlowitz Peace Treaty of 1699 put an end to the era of continuous rivalry.

Полските инженери в България

Author(s): Bolesław Orłowski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2016

The loss of independence, and then the collapse of the national uprisings against Russia (1831, 1863) forced many Poles to emigrate. Many former military in emigration began working as engineers. A major center of the Polish immigration was the Ottoman Empire and the Polish engineers contributed to the modernization of the state. Some of them worked in Bulgarian lands, building telegraph lines, roads and railways. Several of them remained in Bulgaria after its liberation. Boleslav Anz served as Principal Engineer of Bulgarian railways and Sabin Halatkevich participated in the expansion and completion of the Bulgarian railway network until his death in 1935.

Notes in Greek and Phrygian Etymology

Author(s): Vladimir Orel / Language(s): English Issue: 6/1996

Callimachus, Hesyehius and Two Thracian Glosses (Notes on One Transmissional Way of Thracian Vocabulary)

Author(s): Elwira Kaczyńska / Language(s): English Issue: 6/1996

Invariant and Transformations in the Palaeo-Balkan Mysterial Myth about the Wedding Death

Author(s): Svetlana Yanakieva / Language(s): English Issue: 6/1996

Sprachbund und Oralität

Author(s): Armin Hetzer / Language(s): German Issue: 6/1996

А. И . Иванчик Киммерийцы. Древневосточные цивилизации и степные кочевники в VIII – VII веках до н. э. Москва, 1996, 324 с.

Author(s): Maya Vassileva / Language(s): English Issue: 6/1996