LE TIGRE DE JANINA – THE IMAGE OF ALI PASHA OF TEPELENA IN THE WORKS OF FRANÇOIS POUQUEVILLE

This study presents Аli Тepelena, pasha of Ioannina, through the eyes of a westerner - the French diplomat François Pouqueville (1770 – 1838), who in early 1806, was sent by Emperor Napoleon I as a Commissioner General (Consul) of France in the Sanjak of Ioann...

THE REVOLUTIONARY TRADITIONS IN STARA ZAGORA REGION DURING THE BULGARIAN REVIVAL PERIOD

This article reveals the revolutionary traditions of the population of Stara Zagora region during the Revival Period. It is paid special attention to the preparation of Stara Zagora uprising (1875), which is test of the strength for the next major campaign of...

THE MONASTERY “ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST” NEAR SOZOPOL – PROSOPOGRAPHIC ESSAY

This article presents biographical information about some individuals that played crucial roles in the history of the Island monastery “St. John the Baptist” near Sozopol. The names of Byzantine emperors, Bulgarian and Russian kings, Moldo-Wallachian voivodes...

CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL HERITAGE OF THE RAZBOISHTE MONASTERY

The article is devoted to the history of Razboishte Monastery, located near the village Razboishte, Municipality Godech. The author emphasizes the role of this holly place for the Bulgarian national liberation movement. Monastery frescoes, literary heritage an...

REVISITING THE TERM “TURKISH YOKE”

The discussion about the legitimacy of the term “Turkish yoke” rages at the beginning of the last decade of the twentieth century – and reasonably focused the public attention. The result of this discussion leads to the emergence of multiple uses of similar to...

A DISLIKED LEADER FROM THE TIME OF THE BULGARIAN REVIVAL

Disliked leadership is interesting mostly because of its inner contradictivness. According to P. Drucker, leader is someone who has followers. The disliked leader has followers who have no sympathy with him. The disliked leader this paper deals with is Dr Sto...

“OTHERWISE DANUBE IS ONLY ONE RIVER!”

А BOOK WORTH READING

THE ROAD OF THE THRACIAN TREASURES AROUND THE WORLD DOCUMENTARY EXHIBITION IN THE BULGARIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE IN PARIS

The documentary exhibition “40 Years Thracian Exhibition” will be presented in Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Paris in April 2015. The history of around 80 exhibitions will be traced-up trough documents, photos, catalogues, books, Bulgarian, foreign and pri...

THRACE AND THE THRACIANS

Thracology as a modern interdisciplinary scientific discipline considered Thracians as an equal partners of the Hellenes, because they managed to create and develope non-literary type of culture, alternative to the Hellenistic. This article provides some infor...

THE RESTORATION OF THE THRACIAN TREASURES

The article reveals some points in the process of conservation and restoration of the exhibits that will be presented at the Exhibition entitled “The Epic of the Thracian Kings : Archeological Discoveries in Bulgaria” that will take place at The Louvre Museum...