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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 19th-Century Bulgarian Monarchs, Alexander, Prince of Bulgaria, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, History of Bulgaria, National Awakening of Bulgaria, Bulgarian Crisis. Excerpt: Ferdinand (February 26, 1861 - September 10, 1948), born Prince Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, was the Knjaz (Prince Regnant) and later Tsar of Bulgaria as well as an author, botanist, entomologist and philatelist. Ferdinand was born in Vienna, a prince of the Koháry branch of the ducal family of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. He grew up in the cosmopolitan environment of Austro-Hungarian high nobility and also in their ancestral lands in Slovakia and in Germany. The Koháry, descending from a noble Slovak family of Hungary, were quite wealthy, holding for example the princely lands of Csábrág and Szitnya, in what is now Slovakia. The family's property was also augmented by Clémentine of Orléans' remarkable dowry. The son of Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and his wife Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of king Louis Philippe I of the French, Ferdinand was a grandnephew of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and of Leopold I, first king of the Belgians. His father Augustus was a brother of Ferdinand II of Portugal, and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband Albert, Prince Consort, Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother Leopold II of Belgium. These last two, Leopold and Carlota, were also first cousins of Ferdinand I's through his mother, a princess of Orléans. This made the Belgian siblings his first cousins, as well as his first cousins once removed (his father's first cousins). Indeed, the ducal family of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha had contrived to occupy, either by marriage or by direct election, several European thrones in the course of the 19t... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=69571 ... Read more

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Chapters: Visigoths, Tsar, Thrace, Dacia, Central Powers, Glagolitic Alphabet, Bulgars, List of Bulgarian Monarchs, Boris Iii of Bulgaria, Moesia, Samuel of Bulgaria, Dacians, Hiv Trial in Libya, Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, Dobruja, Russo-Turkish War, First Bulgarian Empire, Jovan Vladimir, List of Ancient Tribes in Thrace and Dacia, Thracians, Crimean Tatars in Bulgaria, History of the Russo-Turkish Wars, Kaloyan of Bulgaria, Danube Swabians, Rostislav Mikhailovich, Ivan Asen Ii of Bulgaria, People's Republic of Bulgaria, White Terror, Early Cyrillic Alphabet, Kingdom of Bulgaria, Boris I of Bulgaria, Odrysian Kingdom, Christianization of Bulgaria, Menumorut, Bulgarian Exarchate, Hajduk, Balkan Federation, Glad, Stefan Stambolov, Eastern Rumelia, Budin Province, Ottoman Empire, Siege of Pleven, Januarius Macgahan, Bitola Inscription, Bulgarian Unification, Old Great Bulgaria, Varna Necropolis, Princess Marie Louise of Parma, Goryani, Ahtum, Clement of Ohrid, National Awakening of Bulgaria, List of Prime Ministers of Bulgaria, Praetorian Prefecture of Illyricum, St Nedelya Church Assault, Treaty of San Stefano, Bulgarian Coup D'état of 1944, Struma, Forced Labour Camps in Communist Bulgaria, People's Federative Party, Nominalia of the Bulgarian Khans, Asparukh of Bulgaria, Asen Dynasty, Constantine Bodin, History of Early Ottoman Bulgaria, Phanagoria, Croatian-bulgarian Wars, Ancient Bulgarian Calendar, Hrelja, Principality of Karvuna, Tarnovo Literary School, Medieval Bulgarian Royal Charters, Radetzky, Despot, Triballi, Bulgaria During World War I, Treaty of Berlin, Chech, Omurtag's Tarnovo Inscription, Republic of Gumuljina, Kubrat, Nikola Petkov, Kuber, the Destruction of Thracian Bulgarians in 1913, Hungarian Occupation of Vidin, Bulgarian Declaration of Independence, Osman Pazvantoğlu, Cometopuli Dynasty, Constantine's Bridge, Constantine of Kostenets, Bulgarian Legion, Kingdom of Balhara, Karposh'...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1036546 ... Read more

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Chapters: Military History of Bulgaria During World War Ii, People's Liberation Army of Macedonia, Independent State of Macedonia, Denes Nad Makedonija, Bulgarian Action Committees, Hristijan Todorovski Karpoš, Mirče Acev. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The military history of Bulgaria during World War II encompasses an initial period of neutrality until 1 March 1941, a period of alliance with the Axis Powers until 9 September 1944 (on September 8 Red Army entered Bulgaria) and a period of alignment with the Allies until the end of the war. Bulgaria was a constitutional monarchy during most of World War II. Tsar Boris III ruled with a Prime Minister and a Parliament. A Bulgarian sentry at his post, Sofia, 1942 The government of the Kingdom of Bulgaria under Prime Minister Bogdan Filov declared a position of neutrality upon the outbreak of World War II. Bulgaria was determined to observe it until the end of the war; but it hoped for bloodless territorial gains, especially in the lands with a significant Bulgarian population occupied by neighbouring countries after the Second Balkan War and World War I. However, it was clear that the central geopolitical position of Bulgaria in the Balkans would inevitably lead to strong external pressure by both World War II factions. Turkey had a non-aggression pact with Bulgaria. On 7 September 1940, Bulgaria succeeded in negotiating a recovery of Southern Dobruja in the Axis-sponsored Treaty of Craiova (see Second Vienna Award). Southern Dobruja had been part of Romania since 1913. This recovery of territory reinforced Bulgarian hopes for resolving other territorial problems without direct involvement in the War. Bulgaria during World War II. Bulgarian occupation of Greece (in light yellow).Bulgaria joined ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4026196 ... Read more

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The Balkans
Published by the Allies' most respected historians on the eve of World War I, this book served as a backgrounder on one of Europe's key trouble spots. Still a superb overview of a region which remains unsettled to this day.
The book discusses the history of the major Balkan nationalities. It describes the differing conditions experienced under Ottoman and Habsburg rule, but the main emphasis is on the national movements, their successes and failures to 1900, and the place of events in the Balkans in the international relations of the day. This masterfully crafted eBook faithfully preserves the 1916 revised second edition. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Baptist History and Heritage, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 6492 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The origins and early development of Baptists in Bulgaria.
Author: Teodor B. Oprenov
Publication: Baptist History and Heritage (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 42Issue: 1Page: 8(16)

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We hope we have dealt fairly with all these peoples. Mediaeval history is mostly a record of bloodshedding and cruelty and the Middle Age has been prolonged to our own time in most parts of the Balkans and is not yet over in some parts. ... Read more

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This book was written in 1915.This was a time that saw many significant events that affected the Balkans.Written by four different authors from different locations, here is their preface to "The Balkans".PREFACEThe authors of this volume have not worked in conjunction. Widely separated, engaged on other duties, and pressed for time, we have had no opportunity for interchange of views. Each must be held responsible, therefore, for his own section alone. If there be any discrepancies in our writings (it is not unlikely in so disputed a field of history) we can only regret an unfortunate result of the circumstances. Owing to rapid change in the relations of our country to the several Balkan peoples, the tone of a section written earlier may differ from that of another written later. It may be well to state that the sections on Serbia and Bulgaria were finished before the decisive Balkan developments of the past two months. Those on Greece and Rumania represent only a little later stage of the evolution. That on Turkey, compiled between one mission abroad and another, was the latest to be finished.If our sympathies are not all the same, or given equally to friends and foes, none of us would find it possible to indite a Hymn of Hate about any Balkan people. Every one of these peoples, on whatever side he be fighting to-day, has a past worthy of more than our respect and interwoven in some intimate way with our history. That any one of them is arrayed against us to-day is not to be laid entirely or chiefly at its own door. They are all fine peoples who have not obtained their proper places in the sun. ... Read more

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This volume is the first comprehensive collection to gather together the records of the medieval Bulgarian centuries in English translation. Stone annals, works of religious instructions, anti-heretical treatises, apocrypha, royal charters, as well as numerous graffiti and marginal notes, shed abundant light onto a major cultural tradition of the European southeast from the seventh to the fifteenth century. Produced by Bulgarians of all walks of life, the evidence testifies, among other things, to the unique features of Bulgarian historical consciousness, political custom, and religious sensibility as well as the country's conformity to the broad currents of medieval Europe's cultural development and evolution. The volume furnishes a fundamental reading for all those interested in the historical destiny of the "other" Europe. ... Read more

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The author shows how the dominant research paradigm in socialist Bulgaria -with lines dating back to the nineteenth century -interpreted and depicted the history of Christianity during the period of Ottoman Muslim domination. The association of religious and national identity legitimated the religious and minority policy of the socialist regime. The book demonstrates that political surveillance and control over historiography had direct consequences for the religious communities in Bulgaria. ... Read more

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Koprivshtitsa is a picturesque little town-museum and is also a reserve of architecture and history, tucked away amidst the pretty rounded ridges of Sredna Gora Range. It is located at a distance of 100 km east of Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria) and offers to everybody who visits it an unforgettable stroll into the kaleidoscope of the past.

The meandering, cobblestone-paved little streets that squeeze between the tall stone-wall fences, the heavy wooden gateways with little built-in doors, and the beautiful wooden houses – symbol of wealth and prosperity of their owners, the wonderful arched bridges over river Topolnitsa and her tributaries, and the numerous stone fountains are a remarkable expression of the creative inventiveness and the high building culture of the men that built them.

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History of Bulgaria -- socio-economic, political, military & cultural. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from East European Quarterly, published by East European Quarterly on December 22, 1994. The length of the article is 7069 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Lustration or the weeding out of the nomenklatura and their agents in Eastern Europe has taken varied forms according to its underlying purposes in difference countries. Intended to keep the corrupt from retaining their power under democracy, it is often used as the cover for less high-minded political attacks. Regionwide, the rise of other, more pressing problems has kept collaboration with the secret police from being a dominant issue. Negotiated transitions have proven more popular and less troubling.

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Title: Lustration and the transition to democracy: the cases of Poland and Bulgaria.
Author: C. Charles Bertschi
Publication: East European Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 1994
Publisher: East European Quarterly
Volume: v28Issue: n4Page: p435(17)

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This digital document is an article from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. on May 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1537 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Social and economic conditions in Bulgaria have become increasingly worse, with no end in sight. Bulgaria has a tradition of being closely associated with Russia and, to a certain extent, its deteriorating conditions have mirrored those in Russia, although it never has seemed to give up communism.

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Title: From bad to worse.(Bulgaria)
Author: Colin Woodard
Publication: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1997
Publisher: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
Volume: v53Issue: n3Page: p15(2)

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"Instructed in the autumn of 1912 to join the Bulgarian army, then mobilising for war against Turkey, as war correspondent for the _London Morning Post_, I made my preparations with the thought uppermost that I was going to a cut-throat country where massacre was the national sport and human life was regarded with no sentimental degree of respect. The Bulgarians, a generation ago, had been paraded before the eyes of the British people by the fiery eloquence of Mr. Gladstone as a deeply suffering people, wretched victims of Turkish atrocities. After the wide sympathy that followed his Bulgarian Atrocities campaign there came a strong reaction. It was maintained that the Bulgarians were by no means the blameless victims of the Turks; and could themselves initiate massacres as well as suffer from them. Some even charged that there was a good deal of party spirit to account for the heat of Mr. Gladstone''s championship. I think that the average British opinion in 1912 was that, regarding the quarrels between Bulgar and Turk, there was a great deal to be said against both sides; and that no Balkan people was worth a moment''s sentimental worry. Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for ''tis their nature to, expressed the common view when one heard that there had been murders and village-burnings again in the Balkans. " ... Read more