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Table of Contents Pavel Serafimov – Sparotok. 3 The ancient history of the Bulgarians in the Balkans 4 The Ancient History of the Bulgarians in the Balkans.. 4 INTRODUCTION: 4 THE MYTHS OF "THRACIANS", "SLAVS" AND "PROTO-BULGARIANS". 4 BULGARIANS AND NEIGHBORS – ALIENS OR INDIGENOUS INHABITANTS. 9 THE AGE OF THE THRACIANS. 32 MEMORIES IN FOLKLORE BEFORE ASPARUCH.. 52 THE RACIAL APPEARANCE OF THE PROTO-BULGARIANS. 78 ORIGIN [THE MYTH] OF THE SLAVS. 91 THE FOREIGN ORIGIN OF THE OFFICIAL HISTORICAL SCHOOL IN BULGARIA.. 116 In the Footsteps of the Bulgarian Alphabet. 131 THE SEMITIC ORIGIN OF THE GREEKS. 147 THE BULGARIAN CHURCH IN THE FIRST CENTURIES. 180 MYSIA, THRACE, MACEDONIA.. 201 BAPTISM BY BORIS I 215 THE JUDAISATION OF BYZANTINE ORTHODOX.. 238 Evidence for the Balkan origin of the Bulgarians. 262 THE ORIGIN OF THE TURKS. 327 THE WORLD'S OLDEST LETTER HAS BEEN DECODED.. 344 Bulgaria that we lost. 359 JEWISH GENOCIDE.. 393 Who's who from the top in Bulgaria. 393 Bulgarians in Asia Minor. 400 The properties of Thracians in a Euroreport. 431 WHO FOUNDED ATHENS?. 434
This book is about the geographic space as an inseparable component of a nation’s historical memory, territorial awareness, geopolitical visions, and obsessions. The empirical part of the book focuses on the critical analysis of first-hand sources containing representations of the imagined spaces and places of Bulgaria and Bulgarians from a long-term perspective. The research results are structured in accordance with the author’s model of an imagined national space. It contains three general domains: possessed national space, the ethnogeopolitical neighbourhood, and ancient and legendary spaces. The book also explores how Bulgarians’ historical and ethnic spaces are linked with specific geopolitics, such as passive internal geopolitics, soft revisionism, non-intervening geopolitical claims, blocking international integration as a disguised form of old territorial claims, and emerging historical geopolitics. It examines how the imagined national space is approached by statesmen, politicians, academics, and other creators of ‘high’ geopolitics. The book also pays attention to the role of spatial imaginations in growing ‘low’ (popular) geopolitics, which includes media, popular culture, and national mythology. Written in an interdisciplinary manner, this timely book will attract the interest of scholars and students in geopolitics, human geography, international relations, nationalism studies, and ethnic history.
In The Cold War from the Margins, Theodora K. Dragostinova reappraises the global 1970s from the perspective of a small socialist state—Bulgaria—and its cultural engagements with the Balkans, the West, and the Third World. During this anxious decade, Bulgaria's communist leadership invested heavily in cultural diplomacy to bolster its legitimacy at home and promote its agendas abroad. Bulgarians traveled the world to open museum exhibitions, show films, perform music, and showcase the cultural heritage and future aspirations of their "ancient yet modern" country. As Dragostinova shows, these encounters transcended the Cold War's bloc mentality: Bulgaria's relations with Greece and Austria warmed, émigrés once considered enemies were embraced, and new cultural ties were forged with India, Mexico, and Nigeria. Pursuing contact with the West and solidarity with the Global South boosted Bulgaria's authoritarian regime by securing new allies and unifying its population. Complicating familiar narratives of both the 1970s and late socialism, The Cold War from the Margins places the history of socialism in an international context and recovers alternative models of global interconnectivity along East-South lines. Thanks to generous funding from The Ohio State University Libraries and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Bulgarian Literature as World Literature examines key aspects and manifestations of 20th- and 21st-century Bulgarian literature by way of the global literary landscape. The first volume to bring together in English the perspectives of prominent writers, translators, and scholars of Bulgarian literature and culture, this long-overdue collection identifies correlations between national and world aesthetic ideologies and literary traditions. It situates Bulgarian literature within an array of contexts and foregrounds a complex interplay of changing internal and external forces. These forces shaped not only the first collaborative efforts at the turn of the 20th century to insert Bulgarian literature into the world's literary repository but also the work of contemporary Bulgarian diaspora authors. Mapping histories, geographies, economies, and genetics, the contributors assess the magnitudes and directions of such forces in order to articulate how a distinctly national, "minor" literature--produced for internal use and nearly invisible globally until the last decade--transforms into world literature today.
During World War II, even though Bulgaria was an ally of the Third Reich, it never deported its Jewish community. Until recently, this image of the country as an heroic exception has prevailed—despite the murder of almost all Jews living in Bulgarian-occupied territories. Nadège Ragaru presents a riveting archival investigation of the origins and perpetuation of Bulgaria's heroic narrative, restoring Jewish voices to the story. Translated from the original French edition. On publication this book is available as an Open Access eBook under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.