Vol. 74 No. 1 (1980): Annual of Sofia University "Kliment Ohridski" - Faculty of History
Volume 74 of the Annual of Sofia University "Kliment Ohridski" — Faculty of History (1980, published 1983) comprises nine scholarly studies covering a broad chronological and thematic range—from antiquity to modern and contemporary history. The opening three articles address the ancient history and archaeology of Thrace: Alexander Fol analyses the Greek sources for ancient Thrace through Conon’s Stories; Margarita Tacheva-Hitova discusses the cult of Apollo and the dynamics of ancient Thracian religion; Stefka Aprelova examines traditions in Proto-Bulgarian ceramics from north-eastern Bulgaria (7th–9th c.). Bistra Tzvetkova’s study explores the relations between France, the Balkans, and the Bulgarian people in the 14th–15th centuries. The remaining five contributions focus on modern and contemporary topics: Milcho Lalkov analyses Austro-Hungarian and Romanian Balkan policy during World War I; Ivan Ilchev examines Britain, Bulgaria, and the Dardanelles operation (1915); Velichko Georgiev studies the “Ententophile” bourgeois parties in Bulgaria (1918–1920); Ilcho Dimitrov discusses the Bulgarian press on the eve of World War II (1934–1939); and Maria Mateeva reviews the organisation and acquisition problems of Soviet archives.
The volume demonstrates the high scholarly standards and thematic diversity of Bulgarian historiography in the early 1980s.
