BULGARIAN SCHOOLS ABROAD – HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY

At the beginning of the 21st century, about 10% of the schools, teaching Bulgarian language, history, geography and culture, are outside Bulgarian boundaries and are located on all continents that are permanently populated. The subject of this study is to re...

USURY IN BULGARIA AND THE ATTEMPTS OF ITS REGULATION AT THE END OF XIX CENTURY

Before the banking system reached its modern form it has come a long way of development and has changed a lot. One of the first forms of lending money in our lands is usury. This article aims to trace usury, defined as unorganized credit where individuals giv...

THE BULGARIAN GENERAL NATIONAL UNION OF STUDENTS AND THE POLICE (1930 – 1934)

The article aims to reveal in most general terms the police actions against one of the major Bulgarian students’ organizations during the 30s of the 20th century. Documents from the archives of the Ministry of Interior and of Sofia District Court and studies o...

A BRIEF VIEW OVER AMERICAN MOST PROMINENT ABOLITIONIST NEWSPAPERS AND WRITINGS DURING THE MID XIX CENTURY (1820 – 1850’S)

The main purpose of this article is to show the different aspects of abolitionist literature in United States during the mid-nineteen century. The wide historiographical view of this subject brings to the reader chance to receive accurate knowledge over this...

90 YEARS STATE OPERA STARA ZAGORA AND 70 YEARS SINCE ITS NATIONALIZATION

90 years ago a group of enthusiasts form an opera ensemble, as it occurs in many other localities. And if after one or two titles everything finishes mainly because of lack of funding, exactly in that consists the heroism of citizens of Stara Zagora: the only...

GERMAN-BULGARIAN CULTURAL RELATIONS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE 20^TH CENTURY TO THE MID-1940S OF THE 20^TH CENTURY

The aim of this article is to present the results of the author’s profound investigation on German-Bulgarian cultural relations since the beginning of the 20^th century to the mid-1940s of the 20th century and to give an assessment of the cultural co...

COLLECTION OF SPANISH DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE BULGARIAN PEOPLE (18TH – 19TH C.)