VASIL LEVSKI AS THE ANONIMOUS AUTOR OF THE “LETTER FROM BULGARIA” TO THE NEWSPAPER “NARODNOST”

The scientific paper analyzes an anonymous report to the Bucharest newspaper “Narodnost” published as “Letter from Bulgaria” in two consecutive issues in March 1869. The author of the report has not revealed his real name but has nevertheless left specific ind...

ON THE ISSUE OF THE TIME AND MANNER OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CENTRAL BULGARIAN REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE IN BULGARIA

Two of the most important and still unresolved issues in the history of the Bulgarian committee movement in the late 60s and early 70s of the XIX century are when the CBRC in Bulgaria (the Lovech`s Central Committee), was established and what`s happened to the...

HRISTO TODOROV STOYANOV’S PARTICIPATION IN THE 1871 FIRST CHURCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IN CONSTANTINOPLE

The purpose of this study is to present unknown and little known facts about the participation of the Sofia representative Hristo Todorov Stoyanov in the Church National Assembly in 1871. He was one of the most active participants in the discussions on the dra...

SUCCESSFUL AND UNSUCCESSFUL CHOICES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BALKAN ELECTRIFICATION: THE CASES OF BULGARIA AND SERBIA

For a long timr, electrification has remained one of the main criteria for the modernization of life and living environment of large groups of the population in almost every part of the world. The Balkan countries are among the first to join this process and t...

ADMINISTRATIVE RENAMING AND THE MEMORY FOR PLOVDIV URBAN SPACE DURING XX CENTURY

In this paper are presented the main and little-known street and other urban areas’ name changes in Plovdiv during the XX century. Attention is also paid to the background from the late Ottoman period. The renaming actions implemented by the central or local a...

HISTORY AS WISDOM

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