Bulgarian Book The Shortest History of Bulgaria
Author: Nikolay Ovcharov
Printing House: Lettera
Printed: 30 June 2006
Pages: 72 p.
Format: 17 x 23 cm
Soft covered
The book presents the history of Bulgaria in a short, but rather detailed way. In the book you will find information about the “Rock People” from Rhodope, Strandja and Sakar Mountains, The Sacred City of the Thracians Perperikon, the village of Starosel, the “Valley of the Kings”, the gold of the Ancient Thracians, the Roman legions on Bulgarian lands, Justinian I and the Eastern Roman Empire, the first Bulgarian capital Pliska, Christianity, King Simeon, the First Golden Age, the Turkish incursion in the Balkans, the Darkness of Slavery, the Bulgarian Renaissance, the National Liberation Struggles of the Bulgarian People in the 19th Century, Liberation from Ottoman Domination, Balkan Wars, World War I in the Early 20th Century, Bulgaria between the Two World Wars, Behind the Iron Curtain, Bulgarian Culture in the 20th Century. In brief, if you need to get detailed information, from a reliable source, this is the book you need to get.
Some information on the author
Nikolay Dimitrov Ovcharov is Doctor of History, Senior Research Associate at the Archaeological Institute with Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Professor at the International Slavonic Institute in Moscow. He is also member of the Researchers" Board of the American Biographical Institute. He possesses a Certificate for Public Recognition as Expert, issued by the National Convention of Experts. Honorary citizen of Kurdjali. Member of the Advisory Board with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on the long-term strategy of the Bulgarian cultural identity. His interests are in the sphere of ancient art, architecture and epigraphies, mediaeval history, as well as marine history and archaeology. His name became popular with his sensational archaeological discoveries. He is a member of the team of researchers who revealed to the world the southern part of the royal palace of King Simeon in Veliki Preslav. He is also the head of the archaeological explorations that led to the discovering of the unique gold bishop"s garments and to the exploration of the St. loannis Prodromos mediaeval monastery in Kurdzhali. The most recent culmination in his archaeological activities was the discovering of the rock city of Perperikon and the sanctuary of Orpheus near the village of Tatoul in the Eastern Rhodope Mountains. He has conducted archaeological expeditions in Russia, Greece, Turkey, Georgia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Macedonia. He has delivered reports at more than 60 congresses, symposia and conferences in Bulgaria, Moldova, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, Russia, Georgia, Poland, Malta and Portugal. Author of more than 220 academic publications, 22 of which are monographs and books, about 70 articles in specialised publications abroad and in foreign languages published in Bulgaria. His studies have been published in English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Greek, Serbian and Romanian. His books and articles have been published in Bulgaria, Germany, USA, Austria, The Netherlands, Italy, Malta, Poland, the Czech Republic, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Moldova and Georgia.
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