AN INVESTIGATION OF OFFICIAL CORRUPTION IN OTTOMAN EGYPT: PROCESSES AND DOCUMENTS OF OTTOMAN ADMINISTRATION

The investigation in question is recorded in a series of thirty-eight register entries on a case of financial malfeasance in recently-conquered Ottoman Egypt that was investigated by officials from Ottoman Syria. This case appears in the oldest existing mühim...

XIX CENTURY CHURCH COMMUNITY ACCOUNTS AND FOLK NARRATIVES FROM THE TOWN OF PIRDOP (A diptych of Essays in Historical Anthropology)

The text contains elements from the history of the town of Pirdop and its` surroundings during the 19-th century. The codex of the local church community has been studied in detail. The accounting within was noted for two decades by the hand of the local nota...

THE LINK BETWEEN THE TITLES OF SOME DIGNITARIES IN THE BULGARIAN KINGDOM AND IN THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES

The article aims to compare the titles of some dignitaries in the Bulgarian kingdom and the corresponding titles of the dignitaries in Wallachia and Moldova. The cited sources are mostly Wallachian and Moldovan documents from XIV–XV century, when the Byzantine...

FIRST NORMAN INVASION OF THE BALKANS (1081 – 1085) AND DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITIES OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE

The article examine the first Norman invasion of the Balkans (1081 – 1085). The focus is on the diplomatic reaction of the Byzantine Empire to the Norman danger. The unsuccessful attempts to negotiate a Norman-Byzantine alliance are analyzed. The key moments...

THE TREACHEROUS TESTIMONY OF MARY ANN CLARK AND THE DUKE OF YORK SCANDAL, 1809

In 1809 the British public was scandalized by the affair of the Duke of York with Marry Anne Clarke. Rumors of the affair spread so widely that the story was articulated very widely in Britain for more than three months. The reputation of the Hanoverian prin...

THE DILEMMA “I AM BULGARIAN? ! ” GOOD PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES IN BRINGING UP PATRIOTIC FEELINGS IN BULGARIAN CHILDREN BORN ABROAD

The article highlights tthe main difficulties and problems that Bulgarian teachers face abroad, particularly in the US, in bringing up patriotic feelings in children born and growing outside of Bulgaria. Also, the author shares her good pedagogical practice...

CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BULGARIAN MARITIME MILITARY EDUCATION TO 1944

ALEXANDER TATSOV – ONE OF THE „BUILDERS OF MODERN BULGARIA“

80TH ANNIVERSARY OF HISTORY MUSEUM – SAMOKOV