İti̇l Bulgarlari Ve Coğrafyacilar

2018

The article is devoted to the consideration of the Bulgarian problem in the historiography of the Russian Empire of the 19th century. Ethnic Ruthenian Yuri Venelin became interested in the Danube Bulgarians during his stay in Chisinau (modern Moldova) and for the first time tried to give a complex social-cultural, ethnographic and historical description of this people. From the point of view of Venelin, Bulgarians, like all Eastern Europeans peoples, were Slavs by origin, while the Volga Bulgars were Muslim people and were not associated with them genetically but have received their name for their main city, Bulgar. Venelin’s theory almost did not rise any polemics in the Russian printed press; however, it was sought by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire and had an impact on the doctrine of Pan-Slavism. Kazan nobleman Andrei Likhachev gained fame as a collector of art and amateur archeologist, his ancestral estate was located at the distance of 25 km from the ruin...

Becoming of cities and city culture in Bulgaria at stages of historical development of region was a miscellaneous. In IX–X century passed natural process of a urbanization accompanied numerical growth of the population and the increased needs of a society for products of craft manufacture. It was stimulated with two phenomena – bulgar trading expansion and formation of system of relations of settled population Bulgar and its neighbours – nomads. The international communications were very important in city bulgar construction in second half till the Mongolian period. The period XIII–XIV century in history Volga Bulgar is rather original. That that before invasion was the partial phenomenon, as for example, the state basis and construction of cities, in Golden Horde became practically a rule. At the same time, there was also a hierarchy of relations of the center and periphery – bulgars cities promptly became provincial and in new conditions became almost agrarian.

Brill, 2010

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Stanislava Tsaneva, 2021

This article examines one of the latest and most controversial pieces of information about the origin of the Bulgars. In our attempt to establish its historical credibility, we compared the most important Greek and Old Bulgarian copies of St. Clement of Ohrid's Life, and suggested a date and possible ideological motives behind the creation of so-called "Moesian legend". Special attention is paid to the coincidence between the names of the modern Bulgarian cities and towns of Varna, Kavarna and Shabla and the toponyms registered in the Hittite inventory inscriptions of the 2nd millennium BCE.

Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 18. (2011), 199-223.

Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies, 2019