Year XXXI, Issue 4, 2023<<Archive>>
Civilizаtion Boundаriеs
WHY DID BYZANTIUM PERISH
The paper offers a survey of the reasons for the collapse of the Byzantine Empire. The author analyzes the preconditions for this process, dating some of them to as early as the tenth century. He further outlines both the internal and external factors that fac...
Byzantium; decline; Ottoman Turks; Byzantine-European relations; Michael VIII Palaeologus; Charles of Anjou; Seljuk Sultanate of Rum
THE PARTICIPATION OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN THE PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION IN 1876
The article examines the presentation of the Ottoman Empire at the Philadelphia International Exposition in 1876, putting two main tasks in the study. On the one hand, it follows the coverage of the exhibition in the press of the Bulgarian Revival period, most...
World's fairs; Philadelphia 1876; Ottoman Empire; newspapers of the Bulgarian Revival; Zornitsa newspaper; rose oil