The massacre at dawn: 30th anniversary of the Ahmići massacre in Bosnia
The tranquil village of Ahmići in Bosnia-Herzegovina is not far from the town of Vitez. One of the most terrible massacres of Bosnian Muslims during…
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The tragedy of March 1918 in Baku
from Adil Shamiyev Azerbaijan is a country in the South Caucasus that was affected by a great division and has experienced a 100-year history of…
“A Body Without a Head”. The Elite of the Muslim Minority in the Bulgarian Lands at the Turn of the 20th Century
By Krzysztof Popek , Ph.D The year 1878 was crucial for the history of the Bulgarian lands. The collapse of the Ottoman rule created new…
De-Ottomanization of Land. Muslim Migrations and Ownership in the Bulgarian Countryside after 1878
By Krzysztof Popek, Ph.D Land was of crucial importance to the Bulgarian society, which until the mid-20th century primarily inhabited rural areas, and was mainly…
Muslim Emigration from the Balkan Peninsula in the 19th Century: A Historical Outline
By Krzysztof Popek , Ph.D The19th century was a tempestuous time for the Balkans. There were wars, revolts against local liege lords, battles between armed…
“To Cut Down the Forest of Minarets”: The Transformation of Bulgarian Cities After 1878
By Krzysztof Popek , Ph.D The period in Bulgarian history after the Liberation and the creation of the modern state in 1878 was linked to…
Multilingual or Monolingual? The Minority Languages in Bulgaria after 1878
By Krzysztof Popek , Ph.D At the end of the19th century, the Bulgarian lands were not ethnically homogenous. In 1887, about 73.75% (2 326 250)…
Remarks on the Theories on the Origin of Muslims in Bulgarian Lands – Nineteenth-Century and Present Perspectives
By Krzysztof Popek , Ph.D One of the most enduring after-effects of the Ottoman rule in the Balkans was the formation of Muslim communities there…
The Emigration of Muslims from the Greek state in the 19th century. An Outline
By Krzysztof Popek , Ph.D Although Greece itself does not want to be treated as one of the Balkan countries, the Greek experience of the…
“To Get Rid of Turks”. The South-Slavic States and Muslim Remigration in the Turn of 1870s and 1880s
By Krzysztof Popek , Ph.D The Great Eastern Crisis (1875-1878) led to migrations on an incomparable scale in the Balkan Peninsula. The Russian-Turkish War of…