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The main focus of the article is the street names (hodonyms) as well as the names of the squares (agoronyms) in Bulgaria, which are presented as an additional source for cultural tourism. It is being revealed why and how they can become a strong motive for visits by foreign tourists. An interesting theme among all is the names of the streets and squares named after famous foreigners through toponyms (oiconyms, horonyms, hidronyms, oronyms) outside the Bulgarian current borders, as well as with the use of chrononyms. The classification of the hodonyms and the agoronyms created by the Bulgarian onomasts was also examined. Plovdiv and Varna were given as an example of tourist centers in the article. The hodonyms and the agoronyms in these two cities named after famous foreigners or toponyms are grouped according to the nationality of the eponyms. In addition, exemplary routes that can be created on the basis of existing names were identified.
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The proposed research article aims to explore the social aspects of Ukrainian anthroponomical stock in 17th and 18th centuries which concerns Polish female representatives of the most privileged class in old Ukraine. It presents and describes their baptismal names, additional identifiers and personal identification formulae (naming styles), which were a language measure for the social differentiation.
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This article deals with the forms of Christian names used by Marispeaking people in the Middle Volga region. It provides a general picture of the phonetic modifications made in Mari versions of Russian Christian names when they were adopted. At the beginning of article information is given on Russian-Mari contacts and the development of the Orthodox religion on Mari territory. The author reveals phonetic mechanisms of adaptation, which enabled Christian names to be integrated into the onomastic system of the Mari language. The data of adopted personal names used in analysis is not exhaustive; it does, however, allow one to show certain phonetic inflections in adopted names. Part of the phonetic modifications are systematic and some appear inconsistent while even others can be taken as individual cases.
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In the article onomastic means of creating an artistic image of the city are investigated in the work of Olga Pressitch, an Ukrainian-Canadian poet. There is determined, that central city in her creativity is the capital of Ukraine – Kyiv. This is typical for emigration poetry as a manifestation of self-identity. The image of the city is portrayed primarily through toponymic names of streets, buildings and so on. It is revealed that in Olga Pressitch’s lyrics world and place names are also presented, that helps to demolish the image of the motherland into the global context.
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Defended PhD theses in Bulgaria in the field of linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography and art studies
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The paper uses life stories and archival evidence to explore the relations between Macedonian and Greek refugee children who escaped the violence of the Greek Civil War and grew up in children’s homes in Eastern Europe. More in particular it examines the dominant role of the Greek Communist Party on the refugees’ lives, the organization of Macedonian-language education and the tensions created by the anti-Tito campaign launched by the Cominform countries. It discusses the short-lived establishment of an autonomous Macedonian organization in Poland during the early 1960s. And finally, it analyzes the oral memories of both Greek and Macedonian refugee children about their mutual – largely harmonious - relations. The paper argues that the recovery of such memories in light of contemporary conflicts between the two countries might be an important resource for the future.
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The present article is focused on the similarities existing between some of the characters of the Caucasian Albanian script and some of the graphemes of the so called “runic inscriptions” from the 10th century Bulgarian rock monasteries from Murfatlar and Krepcha. The similarities in question do not only concern the shape of some of the “runic graphemes”. Obvious parallels between the designations of the Caucasian Albanian characters and the “ordinal numerals” from the Proto-Bulgarian calendar are discussed, too. After analyzing these similarities and making a critical discussion on the different attempts at etymologizations of “the ordinal numerals” of the calendar on the ground of the Turkic -r/-l languages, I conclude that the numerals reflect designations of letters from an unknown writing system created for some of the clan languages of the Proto-Bulgarians and partly or entirely based on Caucasian and Semitic written traditions.
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Book review: Nadezhda Stoyanova. Adornments and Grimaces. Fashion and Modernity in 1920s and 1930s Bulgarian Literature. Sofia, Paradigma Press, 2022
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Book review: Miglena Nikolchina, God with Machine. Subtracting the Human (From Romanticism to Transhumanism). Sofia, Versus Publishing, 2022
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There is one letter in the epistolary corpus of Paulinus of Nola († 431) where the views of the Late Antique Western writer about the place and meaning of flesh and spirit in the life of Christians, and especially in ascetic life, are expressed with utmost clarity. One part of this letter is based on the 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑠ℎ (𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑜) – 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡 (𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑠) antithesis. In this context, body/parts of a body (𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑝𝑢𝑠/𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑟𝑎) can be a synonym of flesh, and mind (𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑠) can be a synonym of spirit. This paper explores Paulinus’s concepts about the flesh and the spirit in contrast to the dualistic teachings in Antiquity and in later periods. The levels of usage of these two words and the various senses which could be instilled in them are discussed as well. Everything is examined in the context of asceticism and Christian perfection (as far as it is attainable by humans), to which Letter 24 is dedicated.
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