CAVES AND FAITH

The article explores the transformation models of the ancient idea of the caves-wombs of the Great goddess-mother as real locations for cosmogonic and initiational ritualism. Thanks to these locations, various notions, beliefs and linear concepts are preserved...

REQUIEM FOR ONE BLOOD POLISH NOVEMBER

Poland enters the 19th century after its third separation. It is a part of the battlefield of the Napoleon Wars. The Poles count on Napoleon to renew their political reality. But they do not justify themselves. The Congress in Wien turns Poland into a central...

POLITICS VS. ECONOMY: THE GERMAN HISTORIOGRAPHY OVER THE NAZI GERMANY´S POLITICS&CONCEPTS IN SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE

The article analyses the development of post-World War II German historiography, dealing with the Nazi Germany´s heritage and focuses on the concepts over the South Eastern Europe. It presents different historiographical schools and their main representatives...

EUROPEAN EMIGRATION DURING THE HOLOCAUST

In the years of World War II thousands of Jews seek salvation through emigration. The paths to salvation have different routes – through Lithuania to China, through Bulgaria, Turkey, and Romania – to the Promised Land or to North and South America. Today tran...

ABILITIES TO INTERPRET THE IMAGES IN THE STUDY OF THE SUBJECT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE REIGN OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The object of this article – a part of a thesis for the Second professional degree (Nikolova, 2012 : 13-36 , 42-49 ) is an analysis of the process of learning the skills to work with specific historical sources - art paintings , photographs, cartoons and poste...

HRISTO VAKARELSKI – SCIENTIST OF EUROPEAN RENOWN

On 31 October - 1 November 2013 in Sofia in the big hall of the Central Office of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences was hold the International Scientific Conference "Bulgarian humanities in the context of the European scientific inquiry" dedicated to the 175th...

UNKNOWN LETTERS OF PROFESSOR MARIN DRINOV TO ACADEMICIAN ALEKSANDAR TEODOROV-BALAN

Unknown letters written by Professor Marin Drinov to Academician Aleksandar Teodorov-Balan are presented in the article; the correspondence between the two academics have historical and cultural value concerning the people of Bulgarian ethnicity who live outsi...

„ORDINARY PEOPLE. CONTROBUTION TO HISTORY“ BY MILAN RISTOVICH – A „TINY HISTORIOGRAPHICAL PROVOCATION“

THIRTY YEARS NOW SINCE „THE VELVET REVOLUTION“ STARTED IN THE BULGARIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY

During the years of totalitarianism, the personality of the eminent scientist and politician Bogdan Filov was denied in Bulgaria. His diary, a valuable historical proof, had been declared a political taboo. Thirty years ago, Prof. Ilcho Dimitrov published an a...

TSARIBROD STREET AND THE INDUSTRIAL PLOVDIV

In this article has been done a brief survey about the industries, industrialists and tradesmen, lived at the small Tsaribrod street in Plovdiv. After that, the author has represented the tobacco factory history, which is located at Tsaribrod street. There...

„HRISTO BOTEV“ SPORTS CLUB`S 1927 FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN FOR THE MAKING OF THE FIRST BUSTMONUMENT OF HRISTO BOTEV IN PLOVDIV

This article is dedicated to the campaign of „Hristo Botev“ sports club which raises funds for the making of the first bust-monument of Hristo Botev in Plovdiv. The campaign takes place in the period November 1926 – June 1927. Detailed data for this enterpris...

THE CHURCH „ST. TEODOR“ OR MOLLA GURANI MOSQUE?