Editorial

THE BOTTOM OF THE WELL: URBAN MEMORY, IMPERIAL ECHOES, AND THE MICROGEOGRAPHY OF FEAR IN PREWAR BELGRADE

This article offers a microhistorical reading of Vladislav Maevsky’s 1913 travel sketch of Belgrade, focusing on his descent into the Roman well at Kalemegdan Fortress. By analyzing this episode as an affective and symbolic site, the study reveals how subte...

SERB-ALBANIAN RECONCILIATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EU-LED BELGRADE – PRISTINA DIALOGUE AND THE PROBLEM OF MISSING PERSONS: AN ASSESSMENT

This article examines the prospects for Serb-Albanian reconciliation in the context of the EU-facilitated Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and focuses in particular on the unresolved issue of missing persons from the Kosovo conflict (1998 – 2000). While the Dialogue...

THE 1936 DRAFT LAW ON CIVIL MARRIAGE AND THE REACTION OF THE HOLY SYNOD OF THE BULGARIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

This article investigates the 1936 initiative of Justice Minister Dimitar Peshev to introduce civil marriage in the Kingdom of Bulgaria. In contrast to similar reforms in other European countries, Peshev’s legislative initiative was not driven by anti-religi...

FRANҀOIS GUIZOT AND ADOLPHE THIERS – CONFLICT OF INTEREST, FOREIGN POLICY STRATEGY AND OTTOMAN APPROACH – THE EGYPTIAN CRISIS (1839 – 1841)

French diplomacy during the July Monarchy (1830 - 1848) was put to the test, as a result of the approach and strategy used in regulating the second escalation of the Ottoman-Egyptian conflict (1839 - 1841). French strategic interests in the Mediterranean ba...

DIGITAL TOOLS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HISTORICAL COMPETENCIES IN GRADES 5\(^{TH}\) – 7\(^{TH}\) IN BULGARIAN SCHOOLS ABROAD

The present report is part of a developed intellectual product – “Methodical guide for teachers”, which is the result of the project activity “Digital Schoolbag – My Bulgaria”: an interactive school aid for teaching the Bulgarian language abroad. It offers m...

TENTH ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE AND VOLUME 10 OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC HISTORY RESEARCH ON THE TOPIC OF WARS, REVOLUTIONS AND UNCERTAINTY

A NEW BIBLIOGRAPHICAL BOOK PUBLISHED ON THE OCCASION OF 180 YEARS OF THE CHURCH OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIGIN IN GORNA DZUMAYA AND 130TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE NEVROKOP DIOCESE