"Far from the Danube" is the story of an extraordinary woman who rescued a heavily wounded knight from a battlefield in northern Bulgaria and managed to return him to a less than grateful family in Normandy, just as the Hundred Years War was about to start. Set against the national and religious conflicts of the early 15th century this is a powerful account of a hazardous journey into exile and of a love between Maria Iskra and Gilles Guiton that flew in the face of contemporary mores, given that as a knight of St John, Gilles had taken a vow of chastity. Based on a recorded meeting between English King Henry V ... |
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The book at hand, Living in Two Worlds - Bulgarian Czechs in the Village of Voyvodovo, explores the Czech Protestant community that once lived in the north-western region of Bulgaria in the first half of the XX century. The authors examine various aspects of this vibrant Czech community in Bulgaria, such as their religiosity, kinship, language, and architecture, thus providing valuable insight into the nature of this rather unique group. The book shows how the Czech village of Voyvodovo, founded in 1900 by migrants from the village of Svatá Helena (in what is today Romanian Banat), developed into a rather distinct ... |
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The purpose I pursue with this book is to compare the information that has come down to us from old writers and to draw some conclusions about the people who spread the Bulgarian state to the Balkans, without resorting to the numerous contemporary books that I have read and that fill my library. I do this not out of disrespect for the tremendous work of contemporary Bulgarian writers and historians, but out of a desire to make an independent assessment of events and to draw my own conclusions about the relationship and sequence of events and their consequences by reading only older authors. I hope the book will find a ... |
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"It is well know to all how much daily problems the Bulgarian people has in these days. However, more dangerous than anything is the tendency to loose identity and national selfconfidence. This is a clearly visible tendency in the inscriptions of foreign languages, mass emigration and the wish for imitation of foreign culture. At other side, the answer to the question, "Why are you ashamed to call youself Bulgarian?" is more than obvious: there is in the present time to be proud of. The above-described situation makes preservation and popularization of Bulgarian History extraordinarily important. If it ... |
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Bulgaria made its first steps as an independent state in the distant 681. It is one of the centuries. Its geographical position on the Balkans, the crossing of roads from and to Europe, Africa and Asia, determined the difficult historical destiny of the Bulgarian, state. The hardest ordeal for the Bulgarians was the annihilation of their state by the Ottoman Empire during the 14 th century. For nearly five centuries Bulgaria did not exist, but the Bulgarians manager to preserve their national identity. During the second half of the 19 th century the Bulgarian state once again appeared on the map of Europe and tried to ... |
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Тайните на изоставени села зад огражденията по границите и под водите на язовирите; сюрреалната аура на монумента на Бузлуджа и пъстротата на графитите на София; магията на гайдарския събор в Гела и екстаза на автентичните нестинари; странните бели лица на булките от Рибново и дискретният чар на българския бряг на Дунав: луксозният пътеводител "Hidden Treasures of Bulgaria 2" събира някои от най-непознатите и екзотични късчета от живота и миналото на България. На неговите страници ще "чуете" народна песен, създадена за българските жертви на "Титаник", ще разберете защо квартал Бъкстон се ... |
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The present book is aimed at summarizing the most of the studies have been carried out during the last two decades on the ecosystems of the lake Srebarna – the most prominent Bulgarian Nature Reserve on the Lower Danube bank. The studies have been performed mostly by scientists and researchers of the newly established Institute of Biodiversity & Ecosystem Research, with close collaboration with colleagues from the Biological Faculty of the Sofia University and other institutes of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and/or high schools/universities of that country. ... |
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Кое малко момиченце не се възхищава на грацията и красотата на балерините? Отвори музикалната кутия и се наслади на нежната песен, докато наблюдаваш как грациозната балерина се върти. От френската компания "Trousselier" са се погрижили за малките дами. В кутията ще могат да съхраняват любимите си бижута или дребни аксесоари. Могат да се оглеждат в огледалцето на капака и да си представят, че танцуват заедно с грациозната балерина, докато слушат мелодията на "Blue Danube" от Щраус. Музикалната кутия "Балерина" е изработена от дърво, подплатена е с хартия и има метални закопчалка, панти, ... |
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Morphology of Classical Egypt. ... The main corpus of the study represents a source study of pHermitage 1115, containing the text, which describes the encounter and the discourse of an Egyptian man with a deity. The text is considered in a dialogue with the texts of the epoch, i.e. the principle is followed that in order to understand an ancient text, one has to study all the other ones that are accessible. The uniqueness of the presented papyrus lies in the fact that it contains the most ancient evidence of prayer and of sacrifice, committed without the mediation of priests and is the most ancient story, describing a ... |
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Corpus of Ancient and Medieval Settlements in Modern Bulgaria. ... In the first volume "The Roman Cities in Bulgaria", of "Corpus of the Ancient and the Medieval Settlements in Modern Bulgaria" unique archaeological and historical facts are considered. A mosaic, representing the famous anchient Greek dramatic Menander's work "Achaeans" (previously unknown), has been discovered at Ulpia Oescus. It was here that Constantine the Great himself opened a bridge over the Danube on July 5, 328. Flavius Aetius, who defeated Attila on the Catalauninan Plains in Gallia, was born in Durostorum. The ... |
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Proceedings of the Second International Symposium Blagoevgrad. ... From 12th to October 15th, 2016 at the Southwestern University "Neofit Rilski" was held the "Second International Symposium" Megalithic monuments and cult practices."The symposium was organized by the University research center for ancient European and Eastern Mediterranean cultures at SWU "Neophyte Rilski". Co-organizers were the Faculty of Arts; Department of Cultural Studies; Institute for Space research and technology BAS; Regional Ethnographic Museum - Plovdiv; Association "Boreas". In scientific forum ... |
