България и началото на славянската писменост и литература

Author(s): Vanya Micheva,Elka Mircheva,Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

The focus of the article are the most significant moments of the activity of St. Cyril and St. Methodius which have undoubted connection with Bulgaria and the Bulgarian language, as the appearance of the first Slavonic alphabet the Glagolitic on the base of Bulgarian dialect from Thessaloniki area; the saving and the enrichment of the Cyrillo-Methodian literature in Bulgarian state after Methodius’s death in Moravia; the outset of the second alphabet the Cyrillic in Preslav; the spread of the Old Bulgarian literacy and literature all over the world.

Най-новите трудове в областта на диалектологията, публикувани от Института за български език

Author(s): Luchia Antonova-Vasileva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

This article presents the latest national and international editions, that are prepared by the scientists of the Department of Bulgarian Dialectology and Linguistic Geography at the Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The author draws attention to their potential for use in the process of teaching in Bulgarian language and literature. He discusses various examples of morphological, phonetic and lexical dialect phenomena that are reflected in the art literature studied in the curriculum.

Абитуриентският бал в Пернишко – символи, джендър (полови) специфики и стереотипи

Author(s): Iliana Strahilova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2017

The following article is based on a research on the prom night in Pernik region, Bulgaria. Some of the main problems illustrated in the article are related to the different ideas about the preparations for the prom. The main accents are the male and female points of view as well as the stereotypes deriving from the gender differences. The society perceives this phenomenon mainly as a female ritual, thus one of the main goals of the study is to show that the prom night is as important to the boys as it is to the girls. The article will focus on the gender specifics and the symbols typical of the ritual behaviour of the participants. Thus, we can understand the reasons behind the seniors’ practices during this celebration.

Мюсюлманите в България – изследователски проблеми и приноси

Author(s): Evgenia Troeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2017

The paper presents the topics and contributions in the contemporary study of the culture of Muslims in Bulgaria. It discusses scientific publications with an anthropological focus from the post-1989 period, when the theme about ethnic and religious minorities in Bulgaria became particularly relevant. One of the main topics of research is the state policy towards Bulgarian Muslims in the 20th century, which receives a new interpretation and evaluation. The study of inter-confessional relationships remains one of the leading lines of research in the early 21st century, too. Numerous studies have been published on the various ethno-confessional groups – Bulgarian Turks (Sunni, Alevi), Roma, Tatars, Muslim Bulgarians. The publications analyze elements of their culture, issues of religion and identity. Ordinary people, their culture, their strategies for adaptation in the changing social environment became increasingly an object of study instead of political history. Changes occur also in the approach to research; attention is redirected from highlighting the common elements in the culture of Christians and Muslims to analyzing the specificities, the alternative memories, local culture and identity of Muslims in Bulgaria.

Културни организации и идентичност на турците в България в началото на ХХІ век

Author(s): Bojidar Alexiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2017

After the restoration of the rights of the Turks in Bulgaria in the beginning of the 1990s, they again received the opportunity to develop culture in their mother tongue. Over the time the Turkish chitalishta (culture centers), which had existed in the past, were re-established and new organizations pursuing various educational, creative and informational activities appeared. Already for several years on end, the Turkish cultural associations in Bulgaria have been organizing events and staging traditional and modern musical and dancing performances. The article studies the functioning of the Turkish cultural organizations in Bulgaria as well as the Turkish community’s self-representation by means of folklore performances in front of the other communities.

Освобождението на България в Папската медия отпреди 140 години

Author(s): Veneta Nenkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

Проблеми и особености на чуждоезиковото обучение по арменски език

Author(s): Peter Goliyski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

The text discusses the two main trends for the ethno genesis of the Armenian people – the theory of indigenous origin, or at least the very ancient presence of the Armenians on the territory of the Armenian Plateau and the theory of their migration. The second theory – supported by information from various written sources - considers the Armenians as emigrants from the Balkans.The article also examines a number of lexical influences on the Armenian language – from the layer of its own Armenian root words, whose foundations can be recovered or traced back to the Indo-European language spoken thousands of years ago by the ancestors of all Indo-European peoples, to present days.

Stefan Rohdewald. Götter der Nationen. Religiöse erinnerungsfiguren in Serbien, Bulgarien und Makedonien bis 1944. Böhlau Verlag, Köln, Weimar, Wien, 2015 (= Visuelle Geschichtskultur, Bd. 14). 906 p.

Author(s): Ivan Bilyarski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1-2/2017

Book review

Българо-полска конференция по проблемите на християнството и фолклора в съвременността

Author(s): Tsvetelina Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

Scientific Life; Scholarly Conference

Култура, идентичности, съмнения. Сборник в чест на проф., д.ф.н. Николай Аретов. Съст. и научна ред.: Ана Алексиева, Надя Данова, Николай Чернокожев. София, Издателство на БАН „Проф. Марин Дринов“, 2016. 567 с.

Author(s): Nikolay Poppetrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5-6/2017

Book Review

Прадед – почит към предците и една старина (Размисли след проучване и консервационни намеси в къща на зограф)

Author(s): Nina Zlateva,Iliya Borisov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 16/2018

The Velyanov house is located in the southwest, not far from the church “The Holy Trinity”, in the ancient neighborhood, in the small, beautiful town Bansko, which more precisely is located in the center of the town. From all the standard and classical descriptions and from its architecture, the house is classified like a typical house from this part of Bulgaria, as a typical house from the Pirin district from the XVIII century. Since the year 1967 the building and its unique mural paintings are announced to be a real monument with National importance.Through the centuries there were numerous and important architectural changes in the house. The authors of the study Nina Zlateva and Iliya Borisov think that in the beginning, The Velyanov house used to be a medieval house with rectangular shape and in its structure there is a two-chamber tomb. There is a proof about the existence of this tomb in the southeastern facade of the Velyanov House, over the frescoes, where there is a built-in stone block that happily survived through the years and it has a carved Runic text all over it. This is not only a proof but also an ancient way to protect the people who used to live in the house.

Град Карлово и карловският вакъф

Author(s): Grigor Boykov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2018

The article examines the history and the genealogy of Karlıoğlu (Karlızade) family and the important role that family members played in the complex dynamics of Ottoman politics in the second half of the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. It examines in detail the founding role of the waqf, established by Karlıoğlu Ali bey at the turn of the fifteenth century, for the establishment and the development of the town of Karlovo and the utmost importance of the pious foundation for the affirmation of the town as the administrative, economic, and cultural center of the region of Göpsa. The analysis and arguments, presented in the article are based on European and Ottoman narrative and documentary primary sources, many which hitherto unused by the related scholarship.

Международна кръгла маса „Поглед към славянската аксиология“

Author(s): Vanya Micheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 37/2018

Растения и идентичност: от биокултурните характеристики към валоризацията на местни растителни ресурси

Author(s): Valentina Ganeva-Raycheva,Dessislava Dimitrova,Teodora Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

The paper examines the process of transformation of plant species into emblems that play an important role in the construction of local identity and the specific taste of place. By comparing the case of Raduil and Smilyan beans, the authors seek answers to the questions: how a plant crop that has not been the subject of intense cultivation and extensive commercialization becomes a value and is permanently associated with the name of a settlement (area), how this happens in time, what are the main social actors in the process, which are the economic and socio-cultural preconditions, how the valorisation of certain local plant resources is expressed in cultural forms and can be an incentive for activating local communities and economic revival of the studied areas. The bio-cultural dimensions of beans in Smilyan and Raduil and the process of evaluation of these food plants are the main threads in the study.

Selected bibliography of Thracology in Bulgaria (2000-2004)

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Bulgarian,French,German Issue: 15/2005

Фантазиите на Възраждането – генеалогиите

Author(s): Georgi Valchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

Addressing the vicissitudes and times of triumph and failure in the life of Alexander Exarch (Alexander Boev – Beyoglu), a Bulgarian prominent public figure, the paper discusses the invention, construction and deconstruction of personal biographies in the period of the rise of Bulgarian nationalism in the Ottoman Empire. The latter, historically defined as а period of National Revival, mobilized the ambitions and efforts of Bulgarian revolutionary émigrés to turn into recognizable political subjects and reliable representatives of the national community. The case of Alexander Exarch is especially emblematic in this regard as far as he constructed his identity of a promising diplomate and politician on associations and suggestions for presumable aristocratic origin, coming from the byname “exarch”, added to the names of his family members. This byname perfectly assisted in procuring advocates for the Bulgarian cause in the European courts and circles, but at the same time, it attracted opponents among the émigrés, who blamed Alexander Exarch for taking advantage of “a fake noble exarchal genealogy”.The paper clearly shows how the invented biographies worked as an instrument for response and adaptation to dynamic historical contexts of profound and social transformation as well as how they confronted innovative personal strategies, traditional attitudes and local and translocal political projects.

Колониалната експанзия на французи и британци в Северна Америка: възход и сблъсък, 1748 – 1763

Author(s): Milen Kanchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The article discusses the main concepts in the studies of North America colonial expansion in the middle of the eighteenth century: the frontier of Frederic Turner and the middle ground of Richard White. A new concept is introduced that measures the diversity and dynamics of the expansion process – terra media, based on and extending the space of the generic construct middle ground. The idea for terra media argues for a presence of a quasi-empire – a community united by a chain of relations and pertaining to the colonial empire, natural as for the local tribes as well as for the European colonies. Such continuum emerges after the fall of the empires in the spaces once belonged to the perished colonial powers within the areas claimed by their expansion policy.

Mihai Vinereanu. Dicţionar etymologic al limbii române. Pe baza cercetărilor de indo-europenistică. Bucureşti. 2009.

Author(s): Albena Mircheva / Language(s): English Issue: 23-24/2017

13th International Congress of Thracology Ancient Thrace: Myth and Reality, Kazanlak, 2-7 September 2017

Author(s): Miroslav Izdimirski,Ruja Popova / Language(s): English Issue: 23-24/2017

Жизненият стандарт в Полша от Средновековието до XX век

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

The paper examines the evolution of living standards over the last millennium, viewed through the prism of the body height of the inhabitants of the Polish lands. Body height is determined by both genetic potential and by living conditions. The highest values were recorded in the late Middle Ages and in the second half of XIX century