DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE ABOUT THE YEAR OF BIRTH OF VASIL LEVSKI

Bulgarian historiography did not find to date a documentary sourcebased evidence that firmly establishes 6 July 1837 as the birth date of Vasil Levski. Therefore, other hypotheses placing the birth of Levski in 1846 or 1843 have lately been put forward. The pr...

SVISHTOV MERCHANT-ENTREPRENEURS DURING THE BULGARIAN NATIONAL REVIVAL PERIOD: AN ATTEMPT AT A PROSOPOGRAPHICAL PORTRAIT

The aim of the text is to create a prosopographical portrait of the merchant-entrepreneurs from the Danubian town of Svishtov during the Bulgarian National Revival period. I will shed light on merchants’ family background, education, individual qualities, etc....

A LOOK OF THE BULGARIANS THROUGH THE PRISM OF A TEXTBOOK FROM THE BEGINNING OF 20 TH CENTURY – “PICTURES FROM THE GENERAL GEOGRAPHY” BY IVAN HOIC

In our modern reality, one of the constantly relevant topics that excites the researchers, the teachers and the general public, is the content of the textbooks especially those on social and humanitarian subjects. The present study focuses on the analysis of a...

BONIFACE OF MONTFERRAT AND HIS ACTIVITIES IN THE BALKAN PENINSULA

Planned as an expedition to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims, the Fourth Crusade became a crushing weapon, destroying Byzantium and changing the fate of the Balkans. Its leader marquis Boniface of Montferrat was one of the people, who had the greatest influ...

THE STATE AND THE BULGARIANS TEMPORARILY WORKING IN LIBYA IN THE 1970S

The publication examines the policy of the Bulgarian state towards the Bulgarian specialists working in Libya and the reactions of the employees to the regulatory norms and circumstances. The increase in the number of Bulgarians aspiring to work in Libya is an...

SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE (VELIKO TARNOVO UNIVERSITY “ST. ST. CYRIL AND METHODIUS” – SEPTEMBER 25 – 26, 2020) AND PUBLICATION OF VOLUME V OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC HISTORY RESEARCH “MARKETS, SOCIETY, GOVERNMENT”