In the memory of Neofit, Patriarch of Bulgaria

Neofit, Patriarch of Bulgaria, has died this night in a military hospital after multiple organ failure. He was in intensive care since November 2023.

Funeral on 14 March at the Metropolitan church Sv. Marina:

Public funeral on 15 March at the Patriarch

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The pages of Nikola Antonov

Nikola Antonov with Gregorios Papaemmanouil, Archon Protopsaltes at the Patriarchate of Alexandria,
at the klir of the Rila Monastery

I would like to welcome a new inscribed member here: Nikola Antonov. According to my opinion he is one of the most p

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"Bulgarian Patriarchs and Bulgarian Neophanariotes: continuities and discontinuities in the Ecumenical Patriarchate during the age of Revolution"

Dimitris Stamatopoulos,

"Bulgarian Patriarchs and Bulgarian Neophanariotes: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Ecumenical Patriarchate During the Age of Revolution"

Michel De Dobbeleer, Stijn Vervaet, (Mis)understanding the Balkans. Essays in hono

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Deniza Popova & Oliver Gerlach: Epitaph for Father Stiliyan, Typikar of the Bačkovo Monastery

I would like to inform you, that the Bulgarien-Jahrbuch 2012 is finally online for open access:

doi:10.3726/b12817

 

With my dear friend and colleague Deniza Popova, we published some of our field recordings made in 2002 in Bačkovo and I transcribed his

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The Koledari — Christmas special 2013

Are you bored by the domestic version of Christmas carols which bother the ears, whereever you make a step?

You should try some Koledo songs!

 

In all countries, where a Slavonic language is spoken or was spoken (Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Be

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Svetlana Kujumdžieva: "The Early Oktoechoi" (Sofia 2013)

Current notice (28 January 2018) at the Bulgarian Academy of Science:

http://www.bas.bg/%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0-%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0-%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D1%87%D0%BB-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80-%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%BA%D1%83%

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Digital Library of the St. Cyril and St. Methodius National Library, Sofia

Visit this page:

http://www.nationallibrary.bg/wp/?page_id=294&lang=bg

In the search mask, the available manuscript reproductions can be chosen in the field "collocation" (Сигнатура).

Slavonic Manuscripts

The collection of Slavonic manuscripts is the big

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Portrait Otec Stiliyan of the Bačkovo Monastery

This evening I would like to present you Father Stiliyan, a monk of the Bačkovo Monastery who was as a typikar responsible for the divine services in this monastery of the Rhodope Mountains.

You can listen to a complete recording which we made of the

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