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TOUGH PROSPERITY: DISCONTENT AND OPPONENTS OF THE GRAIN BOOM OF 1846 – 1847 IN THE OTTOMAN BALKANS

This article seeks to shed light on the opposition sparked by the expansion of grain exports in the Ottoman Balkans during the late 1840s. It addresses key issues in the historiography of institutional and social transformations in the Ottoman Empire during th...

THE PROJECT FOR JOINT OCCUPATION OF EASTERN RUMELIA

A few months prior to the planned withdrawal of the Russian army on the 3rd of May 1879, and also as the term of the European Commission’s work approached its closure, the Great Powers reached a deadlock in Eastern Rumelia. Despite the inherently liberal natur...

JOSЕPH EMIGER – UNKNOWN PSEUDONYM OF IVAN DRASOV

The State Archives – Varna, fund 690 K (Ivan Drasov) preserves three letters from the summer of 1875, written by the Viennese Bulgarian Yanko Kovachev to an addressee in the city of Prague named Joseph Emiger. From the content of the letters, we learn that Jos...

A VISION FOR THE FORMATION OF DIGITAL COMPETENCES IN THE TRAINING OF HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY TEACHERS

What digital competencies are required by secondary school education, and what is the response of higher education in the context of history and geography teacher training? A number of arguments can be put forward, justifying the relevance of such questions at...

THE PEACE CORPS PROGRAMS IN BULGARIA (1991 – 2013): GOALS AND IMPLEMENTATION

The purpose of this article is to examine the activities of the Peace Corps in Bulgaria as an instrument of US “soft power”. It is based on research and analysis of documents from the archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, annual reports and evaluations o...

A REMARKABLE MONOGRAPH BY A BULGARIAN BYZANTINIST

THE TOPIC OF BARRIERS TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, PRESENTED AT A SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE AND IN AN AUTHORITATIVE SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION