Bulgarian National Church Mouvement 1856-1870. Sofia: "Za bukvite" Rublishing house, 2010. Настоящата монография стои в основата на текста, който защитих като дисертация за придобиванена научната степен "доктор на историческите науки" през 2009 г. Предоставям я за четене, допълване и критикуване от колегията, тъй като тиражът на издателството е изчерпан, а интересът към нея продължава.

The paper explores the minimum number of Bulgarians dwelling in Thessaloniki from 1834 throughout 1845. It casts light on their occupations, estates and on the longer and shorter periods of being Thessalonians. It is based on population registers, one of 1834 and the other of 1840, and estate and income registers of 1845 kept at the Ottoman Archives of Istanbul. A copy of the register of 1834 is available at the Historical Archives of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. The analyzed data clearly demonstrate the presence of many Bulgarians in Thessaloniki in the 1834 – 1845 period. By earning their everyday subsistence as merchants, craftsmen or servants they helped the development of the city. Throughout the 1835 – 1845 period the Bulgarian community kept on incorporating new members coming from the Thessaloniki hinterland or from remote settlements and regions. Meanwhile it kept on „excluding“ those of its members who voluntarily quitted the city. Many of the Bulgarians adopted the Thessaloniki dwelling model which did not oblige them to acquire property and rent a room or a house. Others built or bought a house, invested in vineyards, shops and meadows. Only few of them achieved wealth and the right to trade with foreign countries. Despite the persistent instability of the Bulgarian community in the 1834 – 1845 period the perception of Thessaloniki as a migration-friendly settlement with favorable economic environment placed it among the cities that would never be part of Bulgaria, but were deeply involved in its development.

This article presents a comparative study on two levels. The theoretical one is inspired by the concept of " entangled histories " that operates on a supranational level for making cross-cultural tural parallels. The second level presents a case study of the reception of the French novel "Les janissaires" by Alphonse Royer in five languages – Greek, Romanian, Bulgarian, Karamanli, and Armenian, which took place in the Ottoman context from the 1840s to the 1870s. The goal of the study is to illustrate how under the same political reign the cultural transfer enabled a circulation of notions and an appropriation of new civilizational practices between different communities that later incorporated those notions in their nationalist discourses.

В студията се анализират две основни групи фактори - вътрешни и външни, които в значителна степен допринасят за първоначалното откриване и разпространение на гръцките училища в изследвания ареал през втората половина на ХІХ в. до 20-те години на ХХ в. При разглеждането им е очертано тяхното различно проявление и пътищата на проникването им в живота на местното християнско население. Въз основа на изследвани вътрешни и външни фактори е обусловена връзката ,,гръцки етнос-вероизповедание-православна църква-селищен поминък-училище“ в изследвания черноморски ареал. MAIN FACTORS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF GREEK SCHOOLS IN NORTHERN BLACK SEA VILLAGES IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE 20S OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY The studies analyze two main groups of factors - internal and external, which greatly contribute to the initial discovery and spread of Greek schools in the study area in the second half of the 19th to the 20s of the 20th century. Their various manifestations and the ways of their penetration into the lives of the local Christian population. On the basis of investigated internal and external factors, the connection ,,greek ethnic - religious - orthodox church - settlement - living - school“ in the studied black sea area is determined.

The first part of this study presents briefly the most important episodes of Frederick Millingen’s (Osman bey’s) biography in the broader context of his family history. Examined here are his various role-transformations and the manifold twists of his personal, national, religious and political self-identification. Attention is paid also to his literary works and political pamphlets, in which he appears as a representative of the 19th century “orientalism” and as a propagator of anti-semitism and right-wing conspiracy thinking. A number of archival documents have been used in the second part of the study, shedding light upon Osman bey’s Balkan connections up to the Russo-Turkish war of 1878 and upon his views on the region’s future after the anticipated downfall of the Ottoman Empire in the years to come. The emphasis here is laid on Osman bey’s Bulgarian acquaintances and on the impact of his writings on Bulgarian reading audiences. The central question asked is how Bulgarian intellectuals and politicians exploited Osman bey’s authority and ideas to promote their own cause – the emerging Bulgarian nationalism. (Abstract) The first part of this study presents briefly the most important episodes of Frederick Millingen’s (Osman bey’s) biography in the broader context of his family history. Examined here are his various role-transformations and the manifold twists of his personal, national, religious and political self-identification. Attention is paid also to his literary works and political pamphlets, in which he appears as a representative of the 19th century “orientalism” and as a propagator of anti-semitism and right-wing conspiracy thinking. A number of archival documents have been used in the second part of the study, shedding light upon Osman bey’s Balkan connections up to the Russo-Turkish war of 1878 and upon his views on the region’s future after the anticipated downfall of the Ottoman Empire in the years to come. The emphasis here is laid on Osman bey’s Bulgarian acquaintances and on the impact of his writings on Bulgarian reading audiences. The central question asked is how Bulgarian intellectuals and politicians exploited Osman bey’s authority and ideas to promote their own cause – the emerging Bulgarian nationalism.