София в жизни профессора Марина Дринова

Author(s): Ljudmila Gorina / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1-2/2015

The article traces the multifaceted activity of prof. M. Drinov as a public figure and scientist to legitimize Sofia as the capital of Bulgaria. The emphasis is on revealing the sound scientific justification of Drinov’s idea. “The Sofia line” in his writings is traced in all his works where he argues that it is Sofia that is the geographical, historical, spiritual, cultural and social center of Bulgaria.

Неизвестни връзки на Марин Дринов с просветните борби на българите от Вардарска Македония (70-те години на XIX век)

Author(s): Elena Hadzhinikolova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1-2/2015

Marin Drinov took an interest in the educational movement of the Bulgarians in Vardar Macedonia in 1876. Then he published folk songs, created in the region of Debar. Drinov took up this position because he wanted to study the folklore of the Bulgarians in Macedonia. On the other hand he used this to fight against the falsification of the Bulgarian language in Serbia. Drinov collected the songs at Galichnik – the village where archimandrite Partenie Zografski was born. This Bulgarian cleric took part in the church movement in Macedonia. Archimandrite Partenie also studied the Bulgarian Macedonian dialect. He supported the existence of this dialect. On the other hand Drinov chose Galichnik because this region attracted Russia’s attention on the Bulgarian Church Question in Macedonia. In conclusion one may say that Drinov also wanted to make a study of the Bulgarian Macedonian dialect. Thus he defended the Bulgarian church educational movement in Vardar Macedonia.

Професор Марин Дринов и колекцията от славянски ръкописи на Българската национална библиотека

Author(s): Elena Uzunova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1-2/2015

The article represents some of the most famous Slavic manuscripts from the collection of the National Library “St. st. Cyril and Methodius”, received in the early twentieth century, acquired from the archive and the personal library of Professor Marin Drinov, leading Bulgarian scientist researching Bulgarian and South Slavic literature, history and culture and one of the leading lecturers in Kharkov University in Bulgarian history and literature. The author also briefly discusses some of M. Drinov’s papers related to various historical and philological projects on original texts of old Bulgarian literature as well as some written by famous Byzantine writers.

„Дигитален архив Марин Дринов“ – резултати и перспективи

Author(s): Tsvetana Velichkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1-2/2015

One of the first projects of the Science Archive at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is the “Digital Archive Marin Drinov” (http://www.math.bas.bg/digi/drinov/archiv.html). It was realized in cooperation with the department of Applied Information Technologies in the Humanities at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The project began back in 2006 with the scanning of 24 archival units (176 facsimiles of manuscripts, 14 printings and 15 black and white photos) from fond № 104K of the Science Archive. It is worth mentioning that the digitalization of a personal archival fond is the first of its kind in Bulgaria with respect to the technological, methodological, and classification merits of the digitalized information. The future plans of the team that undertook this project are closely related to the systematic updating of published information, in terms of quantity and thematic content, with documents reflecting the life and work of M. Drinov which are kept in the fonds of the Science Archive. This project is still viable in 2014, a year marking the 145th anniversary of the Bulgarian Literary Society (now the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.)

Дарителят Козма Тричков

Author(s): Antoaneta Kirilova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1-2/2015

The article examines the will (1867) of the Bulgarian donor Kozma Trichkov, who was born in Vratsa, but capitalized on business in the Danubian principalities in the first half and the middle of the nineteenth century. Based on extensive documentary material the author traces in detail all actions of the Bulgarian Band of Virtues in the implementation of the will notably in that part which concerns public affairs and initiatives – enlightenment and social charity. The author finds the young people who studied in local and foreign educational institutions with financial support from K. Trichkov’s donations. She traces the movement of money – interest from capital and real estate intended for maintenance of Vratsa schools. A. Kirilova also pays special attention to the changes that occurred in the work on the implementation of the will after the restoration of the Bulgarian state (1878) and especially after the death of E. Georgiev (1897) and the dissolution of the Band of Virtues (1901), when the powers on the implementation of the donor’s will were gradually transmitted from the Band into the hands of state institutions.

На границата на османското пространство: Видин, ХV – първата половина на ХVІІІ в.

Author(s): Rossitsa Gradeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3-4/2015

Based on a variety of mainly Ottoman primary sources – kadı sicills, tapu tahrir defters, single documents, as well as contemporary narratives, the article aims at elucidating the impact of the wars waged by the Ottomans with their neighbours at a time of expansion and retreat in one Ottoman border region and city. More specifically it analyses the influence of the war and the frontier on the defence system and the military institutions, on the establishment and development of the provincial administration and the agrarian regime over a period of nearly four centuries. The focus is on the city of Vidin during the wars at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century following which it again came at the frontline of Ottoman defence, and on the influence of the frontier on the relations between the two main religious communities in the region, the Muslims and the Orthodox Christians.

Видинският Варош и канун-и серхад (към отношенията между християни и мюсюлмани на османската военна граница през първата половина на ХVІІІ в.)

Author(s): Svetlana Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3-4/2015

The relations between Christians and Muslims and between their social structures in Vidin in the 18th century are in the focus of the study and its cornerstone is a key Ottoman document from 1719. The case leads to the consequences of the war between the Ottomans and the Holy League (1683–1699), the devastation of Vidin and radical change of its urban structure, accompanied by a reallocation of the population. Vidin once again became part of the military border (“serhad“), the Ottomans finished building a new fortress around the city in about 1722. The soldiers there were Janissaries. They sent to the Porte a statement asking the government to make the Christians sell their properties and move out of the fortress. The argument is that everybody has to comply with the requirements of the law of the military border “kanun-i serhad“ and it does not allow Christians to remain in the fortress; the houses of the Christian Raya must be sold without violence through an auction organized by the kadi court of military officers from the garrisons and other Muslims. Then the article focuses on the main issues examined on the base of Ottoman documents and in comparison with the situation in other towns in today’s Bulgarian lands: the impact that the events of the late seventeenth century and the first quarter of the eighteenth century had on the urban planning of Vidin and the distribution of the confessional groups in it; basic social personages, related to the case; Varosh as intra-urban toponym, but also as an institution intermediary between the Ottoman Empire and the Christian citizenship in Vidin; the acute „fight“ for the possession of the land in Vidin and its region; possible interpretations of the phrase „kanun-i serhad“ and legal administrative practices it stood for. The study of these issues will allow us to reveal the mutual influence between the location of the 18th century Ottoman Vidin on the border of the empire and its urban, confessional, and social structure.

Балаж Шудар. Джамии и месчити в Османска Унгария. Будапеща, 2014. 656 с.

Author(s): Penka Peykovska,Gábor Demeter / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3-4/2015

Book review

Княз Леополд Сакс-Кобургски (1790 – 1865) – родословие и начална дейност

Author(s): Svetla Gloushkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2017

The initial public activity of the German prince Leopold Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is connected to the major events in Europe, in the beginning of XIX century. The marriages of his sisters with members of the Russian imperial family, his physical attractiveness and the bravery that he manifested during the war with Napoleon’s armies in 1813 proves him to be the most suitable candidate for marriage with the heiress of the British throne Charlotte in 1816. This marriage opens great perspectives for him.

Караджа паша джамия в Гоце Делчев – историографски разказ и документални реалии

Author(s): Damian Borisov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

By comparing the historiographical narrative of Karadzha Pasha Mosque in Gotse Delchev and content of the documents on which it was built, this article raises several questions, the answers to which give cause for rethinking the facts.

Curriculums in Turkey: A Comparative Study

Author(s): Pınar Bilasa / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2015

Primary school education is considered to be the most significant means of raising republican people in Turkey. Along with the proclamation of the republic in 1923, innovations were made as in other areas as well. In this study, innovations made in educational curriculums are exhibited by comparing the differences among the curriculums. Document review model was used to do the research and historical method was utilized. Data were collected and analysed by literature review. As the result of the research; it was observed that each practiced curriculum has much impact on the new curriculum and each new curriculum is prepared to compensate the deficiencies of former curriculums. For this purpose, suggestions were made to eliminate defective points of the curriculum in primary schools instead of studying to develop a new curriculum.

Олга Тодорова. Православната църква и българите. XV-XVIII в. (Olga Todorova. L’église orthodoxe et les Bulgares. XV-XVIII-e siècle)

Author(s): Tamara Stoilova / Language(s): French Issue: 3-4/1998

Конференция "Религия и церковь в Болгарии. Социальные и культурные измерения православия и его специфика в болгарских землях"

Author(s): Rumyana Radkova,I Bogomilova,Christo Temelski,Svetlana Kujumdzieva,Evgeni Radushev / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3-4/1998

Встреча болгарских и русских историков

Author(s): Petya B. Dimitrova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1-2/1998

Pieśniowe interpretacje wybranych wierszy Paula Verlaine’a. Analiza porównawcza utworów Ireny Wieniawskiej oraz Gabriela Faurégo, Claude’a Debussy’ego i Maurice’a Ravela

Author(s): Anna Al-Araj / Language(s): Polish Issue: 02 (33)/2017

The aim of this article is to interpret songs by Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and a less-known composer − Irena Wieniawska (1879−1932), based on the same poems by Paul Verlaine. In the first part of this paper, the relationships between Wieniawska, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel and Verlaine are subsequently described. Then, the author makes a comparison between selected songs by French composers and Madame Poldowski, indicating main similarities and differences. The final part consists of some remarks related to the fact that Wieniawska fulfills features of the French mélodie very strictly. This is why her songs seem to be more traditional, not so allusive and sophisticated as Debussy’s or Ravel’s vocal works

Интеграция и дезинтеграция, этнос и региональность

Author(s): Tamara Stoilova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/1995

Киселото мляко и неговите локални инструментализации – между родовата памет, културното наследство и европейските проекти

Author(s): Ivaylo Markov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

Food and food processing are among those elements of cultural heritage which become invested with considerable emotional charge. Food heritage is often constructed within particular national homogenization processes so these culinary traditions are usually considered typical and characteristic for the nation or the ethnic group. Yoghurt is typically perceived as a Bulgarian national symbol. During the last decade, however, it has been subjected to a specific process of localization related to the local cultural history and heritage of the municipality of Trun. Serving as prerequisites, the historical facts and genealogical memories create links with the significant figure of the microbiologist Dr. Stamen Grigorov, who comes from this region and his scientific discovery of the lactic acid bacteria. Thus yoghurt quickly becomes an important resource for the implementation of local development projects in the context of cultural tourism whereby it acquires new economic significance on the general level as well as for the individual owners oriented to retail production.

Икономиката среща традицията. Конструиране и употреба на културно наследство в стопански контекст

Author(s): Ivanka Petrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

The global consumption tendency leading to the increase of the share of natural and organic products could be illustrated by the growing internal attitudes and demands in Bulgaria for handmade bread prepared in small bakeries. The owners of such bakeries claim that in the course of their work and through their results they endeavor at filling a particular market niche – for healthy and environment-friendly nutrition. While focusing on the use of raw materials of the highest quality in the production of bread, they also apply cultural techniques to construct the image of bread as cultural value inherited from the past and conceptualize the technologies and ways of production as social actions signifying ‘return to traditions’. Thus the entrepreneurs stage the production and supply of a product with enormous symbol value exceeding its market price or even disproportionate to it and engage themselves in the production of cultural heritage. Of course, parallel to that the cultural valuation of hand-made bread also aims at its economizing. The text presents the narrative strategies of several bakers owning small bakeries in Bulgaria, who represent the process of production of hand-made bread by investing it with the characteristics of cultural heritage. The author analyses these strategies alongside with the examining of the self-representation of the members of Bulgarian Guild of Bakers branch organization during their participation in the Spring Fair of Crafts in Plovdiv between 23 and 26 April 2015.

On This Book’s Nature and Objectives

Author(s): Ivaylo Znepolski / Language(s): English Issue: 44/2017

„Що нещо е църквата?“ или отново за формирането на конфесионалната идентичност

Author(s): Albena Hinkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5-6/2015

The article focuses on the problems of religious and national identity, as well as on the ways and means of their formation through periodic printing in the 1850s and 1860s. The analysis is influenced by Eric Erisson’s ideas of identity-building and typology proposed by Manuel Castells. The majority of the empirical textual material concerns issues of the struggle for an autocephalous Bulgarian church during the Revival, which implies a wider involvement of the problems and conceptual tools of theology and church history. The author uses the theoretical basis of literary history and the history of journalism. The conclusion is that the cultural attributes of confessional identity are based mostly on the idea of equality