NEW DOCUMENTS FOR THE APRIL UPRISING OF 1876 FROM THE OTTOMAN ARCHIVES IN ISTANBUL, TURKEY

This article aims to argue that new, significant research on the history of the April Uprising of 1876 can be conducted only if previously unknown archival documents from foreign archives are sought out and made available. Of particular importance among these...

BETWEEN GUILD AND INFORMALITY: THE SARRAFS OF EDIRNE AS A QUASICORPORATION IN THE OTTOMAN PERIPHERY, FROM THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY TO THE 1850S

This article examines the development, functions, and institutional transformation of Edirne’s money changers (sarrafs) from the fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. While existing scholarship has largely concentrated on the sarrafs of Istanbul, the fi...

SC “SLAVIA”’S VISITS TO GREECE (1926 – 1927) – FOOTBALL DIPLOMACY IN A PERIOD OF COMPLEX INTERSTATE RELATIONS

The study focuses on an aspect that has not been thoroughly explored in the bilateral relations between Bulgaria and Greece since the middle of the 1920s, more specifically, the first football contacts between athletes from the two countries, against the back...

LABOUR, HOLIDAYS, AND PROPAGANDA. MINERS‘ DAY AT “MARBAS”, DIMITROVGRAD

This study explores the intersection of labor and festivities in the context of a given ideological narrative. It aims to demonstrate how the celebration of professional holidays during the communist era in Bulgaria was used as a means of reinforcing and confi...

ARCHIVES AS „GREEN MEMORY”: PERSPECTIVES ON ARCHIVAL MERCHANDISING

The article examines the concept of archives as “green memory” and the possibility of reinterpreting archival heritage through the lens of the historical relationships between humans, society, and the natural environment. It analyzes the potential of archiv...

AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF THE ECONOMY OF THE BULGARIANS DURING THE OTTOMAN PERIOD

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