EDITORIAL
DEAR AUTHORS, READERS, FRIENDS,
This is the first issue of the History journal for the year 2021.
I wish you health, hope and many blessings for this new year!
This year as well, we shall continue the tradition – the History journal will acquaint with the results of new scientific research, popularize historical knowledge and good pedagogical practices, and offer current information on newly-published books and national and international forums.
Being referenced and indexed in esteemed databases such as Web of Science (since 2018) and РИНЦ (the Russian Index of Scientific Citations; since 2019) has benefitted the journal through widening the circle of foreign authors, welcoming new reviewers, whose unbiased, authoritative and critical feedback provides grounds for raising the criteria to which our authors adhere. We firmly believe that this is the path to achieving scientific production of quality.
This year we will work to invite new collaborators from the country and abroad, to nurture fruitful debates on current topics, and to popularize historical science's achievements across the world.
We will continue the fruitful collaboration with institutions, which have upheld our cultural and historical memory through the centuries, as well as with foreign cultural institutes and organizations, which assist international cultural exchange. In times of social restriction, scientific periodicals become an even more valuable mediator among the scientific community of the world.
We await your scholarly articles, valuable results of pedagogical practices, opinions on the teaching materials in the textbooks for the subject History and civilizations.
The responsibility to preserve, study and popularize the wealth of world history is one we all share. Through history we read our very own future!
I wish you courage and luck in the quest for knowledge!
Nadya Kantareva-Baruh
Director of Az-buki National Publishing House
DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Documentary Evidence about the Year of Birth of Vasil Levski
1) Grigor Boykov, 2) Plamen Mitev
1)Austrian Academy of Sciences
2) Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
https://doi.org/10.53656/his2021-1-1-levsk
Abstract. Bulgarian historiography did not find to date a documentary sourcebased evidence that firmly establishes 6 July 1837 as the birth date of Vasil Levski...
VIEW OVER THE BALKAN PENINSULA
Svishtov Merchant-Entrepreneurs during the Bulgarian National Revival Period: an Attempt at a Prosopographical Portrait
Ivaylo Naydenov
Institute for Historical Studies – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia, Bulgaria)
https://doi.org/10.53656/his2021-1-2-proso
Abstract. The aim of the text is to create a prosopographical portrait of the merchant-entrepreneurs from the Danubian town of Svishtov during the Bulgarian National Revival period...
A Look of the Bulgarians through the Prism of a Textbook from the Beginning of 20th Century – “Pictures from the General Geography” by Ivan Hoic
Mira Markova
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/his2021-1-3-hoic
Abstract. In our modern reality, one of the constantly relevant topics that excites the researchers, the teachers and the general public, is the content of the textbooks especially those on social and humanitarian subjects...
Boniface of Montferrat and His Activities in the Balkan Peninsula
Nikola Dyulgerov
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/his2021-1-4-bonif
Abstract. Planned as an expedition to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims, the Fourth Crusade became a crushing weapon, destroying Byzantium and changing the fate of the Balkans...
CIVILIZATION BOUNDARIES
The State and the Bulgarians Temporarily Working in Libya in the 1970s
Nadya Filipova
Institute for Historical Studies – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia, Bulgaria)
https://doi.org/10.53656/his2021-1-5-libi
Abstract. The publication examines the policy of the Bulgarian state towards the Bulgarian specialists working in Libya and the reactions of the employees to the regulatory norms and circumstances...
REVIEWS AND ANNOTATIONS
Scientific Conference (Veliko Tarnovo University „St. St. Cyril and Methodius” – September 25 – 26, 2020) and Publication of Volume V of Proceedings of the Centre for Economic History Research „Markets, Society, Government”
Emilia Vacheva
D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics, Svishtov
https://doi.org/10.53656/his2021-1-6-confe
