SPATIAL STRUCTURE AND CHRONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE PREHISTORIC SALT-PRODUCTION COMPLEX OF PROVADIA-SOLNITSATA

The prehistoric complex of Provadia-Solnitsata is located close to the modern-day town of Provadia in Northeastern Bulgaria. The remains represent the oldest salt-production site in Europe (5600 – 4350 BC) from which emerged the earliest prehistoric urban sett...

THE BITTER END OF THE NEW SLAVIC MOVEMENT, 1947 – 1948

The article examines the activities of the established at the end of 1946 Pan-Slavic Committee in Belgrade which, however, lasted only a year and a half. The Committee was created with the intention of being the centralized and ruling body of the Kremlin-born...

THE OPERATIONS OF 16-TH BORDER BATALLION DURING FIRST WORLD WAR

The article reviews military missions of 16th border batallion during First World War. It starts in the 1916 in Dobrudja, then during the period 1916 – 1917 conducts operations in Romania and in 1918 at Macedonian front. In two years, in campaigns and battles,...

SOME FACTS AND PROCESSES RELATED TO THE TURKISH POPULATION IN THE RAZGRAD DISTRICT FROM THE LATE 1950S AND IN THE 1960S AND 1970S OF THE XX CENTURY THROUGH THE DOCUMENTS OF THE BULGARIAN STATE SECURITY

From the late 1950s and in the 1960s and 1970s of the XX century the Bulgarian communist party pursues a policy in Bulgaria of detachment of the Turkish population in the country from its fundamental religious and cultural environment. This article discusses s...

HOW TO QUANTIFY THE DYNAMICS OF REVOLUTIONS, RIOTS AND PROTESTS? THE ANALYSIS OF COLLECTIVE EVENTS

The article presents one of the traditional methods in the social sciences for the research and explanation of long-term historical processes such as revolutions, riots, uprisings, protest cycles and waves – the analysis of the collective events. The steps in...

CHARITABLE ACTIVITY OF BULGARIANS IN THE SOUTH OF UKRAINE (THE MIDDLE OF THE 19TH CENTURY – THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

Based on a comprehensive analysis of the materials of the State Archives of Odessa Region, periodicals, charters of Bulgarian charitable societies, reports of the Bulgarian Board of Trustees in Odessa, and scientific literature, the article comprehensively ref...

A DIFFERENT VIEW OF MARITIME EDUCATION IN BULGARIA

FROM THE BLACK DEATH TO CHOLERA. THE FIGHT AGAINST EPIDEMICS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, XIV – XIX CENTURIES

EARLY MODERN EUROPE: BORDERS AND CONTRADICTIONS