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THE SECOND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: ELECTIONS, ESTABLISHMENT, AND COMPOSITION

The Bulgarian parliamentary system came into being with the formation of the First National Assembly in the fall of 1879. Political inexperience, constitutional opposition, as well as disagreements between the monarch, parliament and executive led to the first...

THE RISE OF JUBILEE DIPLOMACY: THE SHIPKA SELEBRATIONS OF 1902

Grandiose celebrations took place in 1902 in Bulgaria on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the epopee of Shipka. The idea for the celebration belongs to the “Tsar Osvoboditel Alexander IIˮ Committee. Started as a public initiative, the preparations for t...

THE MISSION OF JOHANN JAKOB KURZ VON SENFTENAU TO CONSTANTINOPLE (1623 – 1624) AND THE CHALLENGES FOR THE HABSBURG DIPLOMATS ON THE BOSPHORUS AFTER THE LONG TURKISH WAR

Lasting for over a decade, the Long Turkish war (1593–1606) temporarily disrupted the diplomatic contacts between Habsburgs and Ottomans. Like any other agreement between Vienna and Istanbul, the peace treaty of Zsitvatorok (1606) left various controversial qu...

MUSEUMS, CULTURAL TOURISM AND CULTURAL HERITAGE IN BULGARIA FROM THE MIDDLE TO THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. MAIN MOMENTS OF THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROBLEMS

This study presents the background of cultural tourism in Bulgaria. There are a lot of definitions of tourism, but everywhere in the leading places is mentioned the cultural heritage. Cultural tourism became a global autonomy economy branch in the 1980s. In Bu...

ИЗСЛЕДВАНЕ НА БАЛКАНИТЕ ПРЕЗ КОМНИНОВАТА ЕПОХА

SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION ON THE TOPIC OF THE FACTORS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE