This chapter deals with the symbolic appropriation of the Byzantine and the Ottoman architectural heritage in Bulgaria since the mid-twentieth century.
Toute discussion sur la mémoire des guerres balkaniques en république de Macédoine donne inévitablement lieu d'un constat paradoxal : même si son territoire est au coeur des actions militaires de 1912-1913 et bien que la domination sur la Macédoine constitue la cause de l'éclatement de la Seconde Guerre balkanique, I'ancienne République yougoslave a un récit historique plutôt rudimentaire au sujet de ces événements.
This chapter tries to offer a new perspective on one of the most heated nationalist debates in Europe: the Greek/(former-Yugoslav-)Macedonian/Bulgarian dispute over Macedonia's past.
The present article focuses on some specific dilemmas of the attitude towards the communist past in post-Yugoslav Macedonia. It attempts to analyze, through examples of diverse promoters of historical revision (historians, journalists, politicians, veterans, and former political prisoners), the clash between different ‘politics of memory,’ which are understood as strategies referring to collective memories in order to lay claim to a symbolic position that is either newly defined or recently contested.
The subject of the present book is the historiography of the Middle Ages in Bulgaria. The book is historiographical in the old-fashioned sense—of writing on the writing of history, where “history” has a double meaning of “what hap- pened in the past” and of “writing about (what happened in) the past.” This ambiguity is now avoided by taking “historiography” to mean (literally) “the writing of history,” while writing on the writing of history is called “the history of historiography.”