Year XXII, Issue 2, 2014<<Archive>>
In this issue:
Biogrаphy Collеction
PETAR COUNT PEYACHEVICH, THE CROATIAN STATE AND BULGARIA
The history of Peyachevich family is so known in Bulgaria as it is unknow. It is connected with spreading of catholic ideas and with the preparation and realization of uprising in Chiprovtsi 1688. After it’s rout descendant of Peyachevich family settled in th...
count, family Peyachevich, biography
JOSEPH MEISSNER – CZECH REVOLUTIONARY AND BULGARIAN ENLIGHTENER
The article presents the amazing biography of Joseph Meissner – a student at Vienna Academy fo Fine Arts of Czech origin. During the revolution of 1848, Meissner took part in three uprisings in different parts of the Habsburg Empire. After fall of the revoluti...
Bulgarian national revival, revolution of 1848, modern education
Civilizаtion Boundаriеs
THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND HER FOEDERATI
This article aims to shed some light on the allied relations between Romans and Barbarians of the era of the Late Antiquity. In the late 70s of the IVth century the Goths were forced out from their dwellings in the South Russian steppes to the northern borders...
foedus, foederati, huns, goths, romans, empire, theodosius
INFORMATION FROM AGATIY MIRINEYSKI FOR THE USE OF REED RAFTS BY BULGARIANS
The subject of this study is the statement of the Byzantine author Agatiy Mirineyski for the use of primitive vessels by Bulgarian tribe “Kutriguri” in the siege of the Thracian Chersonese in 558. In Bulgarian science this information is perceived as irrefutab...
protobulgarians, rafts, boats, ships, navy, seafaring
HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ST. CYRIL AND ST. METHOD IN BUDAPEST
Construction of the Bulgarian Orthodox of St. Cyril and St. Method in Budapest was clearly an important event in the life of the Bulgarian Community of Hungary. The event did more than enrich the spiritual life of the community. It served not only to satisf...
Hungary, church, society, faith
Guаrdiаns of thе Меmory
TEMPLE OF MUSES IN PERNIK
The present article studies the Museum’s 60 years old history, its periods of development and challenges the museum’s staff had in the past and has today. During its 60 years of existence the Museum has gained over 54 000 units stored in its main, secondary an...
museum, Pernik, history, muses
THE CULT OF THE MYSTIC ORION AND CHRISTMAS RITUAL BREADS
The representation of the “ploughing of the skies”, which we find on the ritual bread loaves from Central North Bulgaria, is one of the few visual proofs relating to the ancient South-Slavic myth of Orion (the Celestial Ploughman, or the Celestial Plough) whic...
ritual, Orion, bread, folklore