GLIMPSES INTO THE BUSINESS HISTORY OF THE BULGARIAN REVIVAL PERIOD: THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY OF ATANAS SIMOV IN THE 1870S

The current text is an attempt to shed light on the entrepreneurial activity of a little-known person – Atanas Genkov Simov (1832 – 1897), born in Kalofer. He was a distant relative of the prominent merchant Hristo Petkov Tapchileshtov who was also born in Kal...

THE WESTERN TRAVELLERS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY AND THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS SITUATED ALONG THE ROUTE OF VIA DIAGONALIS

The paper presents an analysis of the accounts provided by Western travellers from the 16th century regarding the ancient monuments situated along the route of Via Diagonalis, which traverses the Balkans from Belgrade to Istanbul. The ancient Roman road was pr...

THE SHADOW SIDE OF THE SEMI-CIVILIZED MAN IN THE ARCHIVE OF THE DUTCH PHILOSOPHER OF HISTORY JOHAN HUIZINGA

The article is intended to highlight little-known aspects of the activities of the Dutch philosopher of history Johan Huizinga, who, in the period before and during the Second World War, as rector of Leiden University was subject to antiSemitic and pro-Nazi pr...

BORIS TSONEV‘S CONTRIBUTION TO BULGARIA‘S PARTICIPATION IN THE 1936 OLYMPIC GAMES

Absract. A significant influence on the development and enrichment of the arts competitions for the 1936 Olympic Games was the presence of German political propaganda, which aimed to manifest the power and strength of the German political, economic and socio-c...

A LOOK AT THE PUBLISHING ACTIVITY OF AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY – PLOVDIV

This article presents the publishing activity of the Agricultural University of Plovdiv from the establishment of Plovdiv State University in 1945 to the present day. Initially, the Plovdiv State University included two faculties – medical and agronomic. Then,...

A SIGNIFICANT STUDY ON THE HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY OF BULGARIAN COMMUNISM: THE FORMER PEOPLE OF BULGARIAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS

UNDER THE BANNER OF BULGARIAN-CROATIAN DIALOGUES