New materials

 

• 14.02.2022 - Zhivko Vojnikov: The (non-)Bulgarian 12-year cyclic calendar - Avar legacy amongst the Bulgarians (2021)  (in Bulgarian)

• 31.05.2021 - Hans Rothe: What is „Old-Russian Literature“  (2015, Minsk)  (translated in Russian)

• 13.06.2020 - Nebojša Radenković: Milan Budimir’s views on Slav lexicon, origin and on Slav homeland  (2017?)  (in Serbian)

• 13.02.2020 - Toma Petrov, Ivan Venedikov, Bojan Kuzupov: The antique tomb by Pomorie (Kuhata mogila)  (1969)  (in Bulgarian)

• 06.01.2019 - Mihail Tihomirov: The Nominalia of the Bulgarian princes  (1946)  (in Russian)

• 06.01.2019 - Ivan Bozhilov, Hristo Dimitrov: Protobulgarica (Remarks on the history of the Proto-Bulgarians until the mid-IX c. AD)  (1995)  (in Russian)

• 26.09.2018 - Emil Kalužniacki, Constantine Jireček: On the history of the Bulgarian name of the city of Philippopolis. About the name Plovdin or Plovdiv  (1894)  (in German)

• 16.08.2018 - Hans Rothe: What is „Old-Russian Literature“  (2000)  (in German)

• 08.04.2018 - Boris Grekov: The Volga Bulgars in the IX-X cc. Preliminary notes  (1945)  (in Russian)

• 03.04.2018 - Hartmut Trunte: Doctrina Christiana. Investigations on the compilation and sources of the so-called "Speech of the philosopher" in the Old Russian Chronicle  (1993)  (in German)

• 30.03.2018 - Alexander Issatschenko: Myths and facts about the emergence of the Russian literary language  (1975)  (in German)

• 29.03.2018 - Francis Thomson: “Made in Russia“. A Survey of the Translations Allegedly Made in Kievan Russia  (1993)

• 12.02.2018 - Dimitri Strémooukhoff: Moscow the Third Rome: Sources of the Doctrine  (1953)

• 09.02.2018 - Ihor Ševčenko: Three Paradoxes of the Cyrillo-Methodian Mission  (1964) 

• 31.12.2017 - Ephemeris Dacoromâna (Roma, 1923) - including the article I Traci nelle epigrafi di Roma  by G. G . Mateescu  (in Italian)

• 17.12.2017 - Karl Müllenhoff: Deutsche Altertumskunde, II  (1887)  (in German)

• 10.03.2017 - Viktor Prikhodko: Chinese elements in the culture of the mediaeval Bulgars  (2015)  (in Russian)

• 12.11.2016 - Maria Chishvasi-Comsha: Excavations at Bucov (Wallachia)  (1959)  (in Romanian)

• 13.07.2016 - Tatjana Zlatkovskaja: About the identity of the Thracian culture in Roman times  (1981)  (in Russian)

• 09.06.2016 - Sergej Ivanov: The unknown Old Bulgarian term "vlogzhupan"  (2007)  (in Russian)

• 02.06.2016 - Tatjana Zlatkovskaja: Regarding the classical antiquity's heritage of the South Slavic and the East Romance peoples  (1978)  (in Russian)

• 01.06.2016 - Boris Florja: The Roman Curia and the prohibition of the Slavonic liturgy in Great Moravia in 885 A.D.  (1998)  (in Russian)

• 29.05.2016 - Eugene Helimski: On probable Tungus-Manchurian origin of the Buyla inscription from Nagy-Szentmiklós  (2000)

• 09.04.2016 - Jusif Dzhafarov: The 'Onogurs' of the Byzantine chroniclers and the 'Haylandurs' of (the Armenian chronicler) Elishe  (1980)  (in Russian)

• 20.03.2014 - Boris A. Litvinskij (ed.): Eastern Turkestan and Central Asia in the System of Cultures of Ancient and Medieval East (1986)  (in Russian)

• 12.03.2014 - Michael W. Weithmann: Die Slavische Bevolkerung auf der Griechischen Halbinsel: Ein Beitrag zur Historischen Ethnographie Sudosteuropas (1978). An OCR-ed .doc file, kindly provided by Asen Tschilingirov

• 27.02.2014 - A. Nepokupnyj: The suffixal combination -av-itjo- in the west-Baltic l-s (1987)  (in Russian)

• 18.02.2014 - Bernhard Haensel (ed.) : Die Voelker Suedosteuropas im 6. bis 8. Jahrhundert (1991): Die Voelker Suedosteuropas im 6. bis 8. Jahrhundert, Probleme und Ergebnisse (K. Horedt); Die Nordgrenze des byzantinischen Reiches im 6. bis 8. Jahrhundert (E. Chrysos); Das awarische Khaganat und die anderen Gentes im Karpatenbecken (6.-8. Jh.) (W. Pohl); Fruehe slawische Elemente im Namensgut Griechenlands (Ph. Malingoudis); Alte Relikte in Balkansprachen (N. Reiter)

• 17.02.2014 - Phaedon Malingoudis: The Slavs in mediaeval Greece (1991)  (in Greek)

• 17.02.2014 - Phaedon Malingoudis: Toponymy and history. Observations concerning the Slavonic toponymy of the Peloponnese (1983)

• 17.02.2014 - Zhivko Vojnikov, Ivan Vojnikov: The Old Bulgarian calendar - etymology of the names of the months and of the (cyclic) years  (in Russian, in Bulgarian)

• 18.10.2013 - Alexander Loma: Some Slavistic aspects of the Serbian ethnogenesis  (in Serbian)

• 14.01.2013 - Zhivko Vojnikov: Origin and migrations of the ancient Bulgarians (in the search of a new approach to the old problem) (2012)  (in Bulgarian)

• 28.03.2012 - Ivan Popovich: Towards the question about the origin of the Slavs of northern Albania  (in Russian)

• 08.02.2012 - Omeljan Pritsak: Die bulgarische Fuerstenliste und die Sprache der Protobulgaren  (in German)  This material has been lying half-ready since 2008...

• 27.01.2012 - Alexander Loma: Slavs and Albanians till the XII c. in the light of the toponomastics  (in Serbian)

• 12.09.2011 - Phaedon Malingoudis: Slavic-Greek symbiosis in Byzantium in the light of the toponymy  (in Russian)

• 10.04.2010 - Ancient (Macedonian) slingers destroyed Starosel  by Dimitar Nikolov

• 19.03.2009 - Dr. Stefan Yordanov: The goddess of love in the megaron of the power: Observations on the power relations of paleobalkan peoples  (in Bulgarian)

• 26.05.2008 - Bernstein, Trubachev on the Balto-South-Slavic isoglosses  (in Russian)

• 02.12.2007 - Une inscription en langue proto-bulgare decouverte a Preslav  by J. Deny

• 25.11.2007 - The Slavs and the Avars  by Omeljan Pritsak

• 16.11.2007 - Converted to Unicode:

         -   The Position of Albanian  by Eric Hamp
         -   The Slavic population in Albania  by Afanasij Selishchev
         -   Medieval towns and fortresses in Macedonia  by Ivan Mikulchik  (full text)
         -   Yazijioghlu 'Ali on the Christian Turks of the Dobruja  by Paul Wittek
         -   The Language of the Huns  by Otto Maenchen-Helfen
         -   Documents epigraphiques kouchans  by Gerard Fussman
         -   Hudud al-'Alam, The Regions of the World, A Persian Geography (372 A.H. / 982 A.D.), with commentaries by Vladimir Minorsky
         -   The language of the Thracians  by Ivan Duridanov

• 17.07.2006 - The Fihrist of al-Nadim, A Tenth-century survey of Muslim Culture  (excerpts). Al-Nadim mentions that the ‘Abbasid caliph al-Mam’un (786-833), son of Harud al-Rashid, wrote a more that 100 pages long "Answers to the Questions of the King of the Burghar Addressed to Him about Islam and the Unity (Theology)"  (pp. 36, 254, 400)

• 08.06.2006 - The Thracian treasure from Rogozen  by Al. Fol, B. Cvetkov, S. Mashov, P. Ivanov  (in Bulgarian, with 76 photos)

• 03.05.2006 - Comparative phonetics of the Thracian language  - full translation from the 1985 German edition of I. Duridanov's book (by J. Tchorbadzhijski)

• 09.02.2006 - The tribes of the Western Caucasus according to "Ashkharacujc"  by V. Butba (in Russian, excerpts)

• 06.02.2006 - Conceptions of Ethnicity in Early Medieval Studies  by W. Pohll

• 04.02.2006 - The Barbarians in Justianian's Armies  by J. Teall

• 10.10.2005 - Studies in the History and Language of the Sarmatians  by J. Harmatta

• 24.07.2005 - The Bulgaro-Khazar border and the Bulgaro-Khazar emnity from the end of the VII till the mid-IX c.  by G. Atanassov (translated in Russian)

• 27.06.2005 - Bulgarians and Romanians on the Lower Danube during the early Middle Ages (according to the archaeological data)  by D. Ovcharov (translated in Russian). With additional pictures.

• 02.06.2005 - Pliska - 100 years of archaeological excavations  by R. Rashev and Y. Dimitrov. An overview of the archaeology of the old capital of the First Bulgarian kingdom. With many additional pictures taken from other books.

• 20.05.2005 - Linear A script from the Eastern Rhodopes?

• 14.05.2005 - Thracian treasures from Plovdiv at the National museum in Sofia, March 2005

• 07.03.2005 - Documents epigraphiques kouchans by G. Fussman (in French). Analyses the Dasht-e Nawur inscriptions from Afghanistan, written in three scripts: Bactrian-Greek, Kharosthi and an unknown one

• 17.01.2005 - Dr. Stefan Iordanov from the Veliko Turnovo University has kindly provided four of his articles: Paisius or Nicephorus: regarding the personal name and the titles of the founder of the First Bulgarian Kingdom;  Slavs, Turks and Indo-Iranians in the Early Middle Ages;  On the border guard organisation at the time on the First Bulgarian Kindgdom; The Troyan war, the Thracian thalassocracy and the movement of the so called Sea Peoples (all in Bulgarian)

• October 2004 - The newly discovered Thracian golden mask ("Sveticata" mound) and a tomb + a bronze head ("Golyamata Kosmatka" mound) near Kazanluk

• 02.08.2004 - The Language of the Huns  by O. Maenchen-Helfen (Chapter IX of his book, "The World of the Huns").

• 23.07.2004 - Hudud al-'Alam, The Regions of the World, A Persian Geography, 372 A.H. - 982 A.D., with commentaries by V. Minorsky

• 23.07.2004 - Medieval towns and fortresses in Macedonia  by I. Mikulchik (in Macedonian)

• 15.06.2004 - Asparukh of Iberia  excerpt from The Cambridge History of Iran, v. 3

• 13.05.2004 - A pagan, pre-Muslim statuette with runic signs from Volga Bulgaria  by Igor

• 12.05.2004 - The Langobards and the 'Vulgares' in Historia Langobardorum by O. Maenchen-Helfen (an excerpt)

• 20.02.2004 - Yazijioghlu 'Ali on the Christian Turks of the Dobruja  by Paul Wittek

• 02.02.2004 - On the origin of the Proto-Bulgarians  by R. Rashev (the original paper in Bulgarian)

• 02.02.2004 - Sarmatian elements in the pagan necropolises of NE Bulgaria and N Dobrudzha by E. Angelova (in Bulgarian)

• 05.01.2004 - The Outlines of Hungarian Prehistory by D. Sinor

• 21.11.2003 - Historical geography of Southern Sogdiana and Northern Tokharistan according to Arab sources, IX-XIII cc. by Sh. Kamaliddinov (in Russian).

• 17.11.2003 - Iranian and Slavic languages. Relations throughout the history by D. Edel'man. An excerpt about the secondary "balkanisms" in the morphology, syntax of some Iranian l-s (in Russian).

• 21.10.2003 - The myths of ancient Volga, in Russian.

• 30.09.2003 - The Slavic Population in Albania, by A. Selishchev (in Russian). With maps(CorelDraw) of Slavic topo-, hydronyms.

• 28.05.2003 - Proto-Bulgarian Epigraphic Monuments, by V. Beshevliev

• 01.05.2003 - The 'Second Bulgarian Empire.' Its Origin and History to 1204 , by R. Wolff

• 30.04.2003 - History of the Armenians, Moses Khorenats'i -

      Commentary on the Literary Sources by R. Thomson

• 28.03.2003 - On the Capture of Corinth by the Onogurs and Its Recapture by the Byzantines, by P. Charanis

• 05.02.2003 - The town of Balkh, by Sh. Kamaliddinov (in Russian)

• 24.01.2003 - Bactrian marriage contract of 343 AD, N. Sims-Williams (in Bulgarian)

• 09.01.2003 - REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION To Inquire into the causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars by Carnegie Endowment for International peace, 1914

• 09.01.2003 - The runic epigraphy of the ancient Bulgars by I. Kyzlasov (in Russian)

• 09.01.2003 - The Bulgars in the Balkans and the Occupation of Corinth in the Seventh Century by K. Setton

• 06.01.2003 - Altturkische Felszeichnungen in Nordost-Anatolien by H. Vary

• 31.12.2002 - IRANICA PROTOBULGARICA: Asparuch und Konsorten im Lichte der Iranischen Onomastik by R. Schmitt

• 23.12.2002 - The runic alphabets of Central Asia by I. Kyzlasov (in Russian)

• 22.12.2002 - The Evolution of Slavic Society and the Slavic Invasions in Greece. The First Major Slavic Attack on Thessaloniki, A. D. 597 by Speros Vryonis

 
• 27.11.2002 - On the Prototype of the Proto-Bulgarian Temples at Pliska, Preslav and Madara by B. Brentjes

• 26.07.2002 - Added the articles: "About the formation of the Pamir-Fergana racial type" by L. Jablonskij, and "The artificial skull deformation in Central Asia" by T. Hodzhajov (in Russian)

 
• 18.07.2002 - Added Eric Hamp's article on The Position of Albanian

• 15.07.2002 - Added Genadij Litavrin's article about Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus and the Bulgarians as well as two examples of the early Bulgar costume

• 10.07.2002 - Added Michael Holman's translation of three stories by Nikolaj Hajtov (1919-2002): When Men were Men, Ibryam-Ali, and The Seed of the Dervishovs

• 13.06.2002 - Added the book "Аrmenian sources on Central Asia, V-VII c. AD" by L. Ter-Mkrtichjan (in Russian). With a MAP of Central Asia,VII c. AD by S. Eremjan

• 11.06.2002 - Added the articles "Tamgas (functions of the symbol)" by V. Ol'hovskij  in the Miscellaneous section

• 10.06.2002 - Added the article "About the Zoroastrianism among the Alans in the VII-IX cc." by R. Rudnickij in the Miscellaneous section

• 09.06.2002 - Due to web-space limitations introduced by tripod.com, some materials (e.g. "Central Asia in the Early Middle Ages") were moved to topcities.com [Now hosted at www.kroraina.com - 26.09.2003]

• 29.05.2002 - Added the article "The time of the appearence of the Alans in Eastern Europe and their origin" by A. Skripkin in the Miscellaneous section

• 22.05.2202 - Updated the links to Chris Webber's Thracian site

• 15.04.2002 - Added excerpts from "Istorija v osetinskom predanii" by R. Bzarov. -  Description of the feudal relations, classes in Ossetia and of the institution of "nomilus" (second wife)

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