Alexandre KOSTOV, Editor’s Notes

Cristina DIAC, An Obvious Nonstarter: the Popular Front in Eastern Europe

Blagovest NJAGULOV, Loyalties under Strain: The Dobrudja “Mahzar” of 1940    

Aneta MIHAYLOVA, The Paris Peace Conference of 1946 and the Redrafting of Borders in Europe: The Bitter Experience of Two Former German Satellites

Dobrinka PARUSHEVA, Coping With Housing Crisis: Post-World Wars’ Experience in Bulgaria

Alexandre KOSTOV, The Trade Relations of China with Bulgaria and Romania in the East-European Context (1950-1978)

Florin-Răzvan MIHAI, The Soviet Communist Party, Its Eastern Satellites and the International Communist Movement. A Comparative Study of the Bulgarian and Romanian Communist Parties (1964-1989)

Ana-Maria CĂTĂNUŞ, “Living in truth”. Narratives of Romanian Dissent in the 1970s and 1980s

Raïa ZAÏMOVA, Violeta BARBU, Les Balkans ottomans: conquêtes et identités nationales

Violeta BARBU, « Il est plus difficile de préserver que de bâtir »: le patriarche de Constantinople, Jérémie II Tranos et les Pays Roumains

Alexandru CIOCÎLTAN, The Saxon Community in Câmpulung/ Langenau (Wallachia) according to a status animarum from 1646

Elmira VASSILEVA, The Activities of the Franciscan Order in the Ottoman Territories (17th century): Missionary Approaches

Rafael Dorian CHELARU, Sempre forti alla santa fede – confessional discourse on religious conformity in the Catholic sources concerning Ottoman Balkans (17th and 18th Centuries)

Radu NEDICI, In-between Empires: Nikola Stanislavich, Bishop of Nikopol and Apostolic Administrator of Oltenia (1725–1739)

Mariya SHUSHAROVA, Local élites and communities in the management of public order during the 18th century: perceptions from the core European territories of the Ottoman Empire

Raïa ZAÏMOVA, Quelques traits des rapports Lazaristes – Bulgares-Unis à Salonique ottomane

Georges KOUTZAKIOTIS, Les pionniers du commerce français à Thessalonique au cours du XVIIe siècle

Yura KONSTANTINOVA, Trade Networks and National Identity in Salonica in the 1860s and 1870s

Andreas LYBERATOS, Constructing Temporal Otherness: Western Travelersand Timekeeping in the Balkans (16th-19th c.)

Salim AYDÜZ, Ottoman Time Keeping Houses: Muwaqqitkhānas

Marinos SARIYANNIS, “Temporal modernization” in the Ottoman pre-Tanzimat context

Dimitrios CHARITATOS, Public clocks and public time in Northern Greece, from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century

Nurçin İLERI, Nightlife and Temporal Order in fin de siècle Istanbul

Mehmet KENDIRCI, Time as an Instrument of Building Citizenship in Turkey in the Late Ottoman and the Early Republican Era

Sommaire

Veton LATIFI, Theorizing Nationalism: The National Identity as a Particular Form of Collective Identity and Its Political Relevance in the Balkans

Spaska SHUMANOVA, Bulgarian-Romanian Economic Relations (1944-1965)

Panayiota MINI, The Image of the Turk in Greek Fiction Cinema: An Overview

Heinz DUCHHARDT, The Congress of Vienna, the Balkans and the Mediterranean

Nadia DANOVA, Ce monde rapetissant

Byzantine Studies

Pierre MOUKARZEL, Les relations commerciales entre Byzance et le sultanat mamelouk (XIIIe- XVe siècles)

Georgi DIMOV, Economic Relations between the Norman Kingdom of Siciliy and the Byzantine Empire (1130–1194)

Notices bibliographiques

Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas. Herausgegeben von Holm Sundhaussen und Konrad Clewing. Zweite erweiterte und aktualisierte Auflage. Böhlau Verlag, Wien-Köln-Weimar, 2016, 1102 S. (Roumiana PRESHLENOVA)

Иван Русев, Търговската модерност на Българското възраждане като култура и практика. Изследване и извори. Велико Търново, Ровита, 2015, 743 с. (Nadia DANOVA)

Paschalis M. Kitromilides, Enlightenment and Revolution. The Making of Modern Greece. Harvard University Press, 2013, 452 p. (Tsvetomir B. TODOROV)

Přemysl Rosůlek, Albánci a Makedonská republika (1991–2014). Praha, Nakladatelství Libri, 2015, 396 s. (Mariana STAMOVA)

Jan Pelikán, Novými cestami. Kosovo v letech 1958–1969. Práce Filozofické Univerzity Karlovy, 2014, 402 s. (Mariana STAMOVA)

Олексанр Середа. Османсько-украïнське степове порубiжжя в джерелах XVIII ст./ Oleksandr Sereda. XVIII Yüzyıi Osmanlı Işığında Osmanlı-Ukrayna Bozkır Serhatti. Одеса, Астропринт, 2015, 312 с. (Mariya SHUSHAROVA)

Denis F. Sullivan, Alice-Mary Talbot, Stamatina McGrath, The Life of St. Basil the Younger. Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Moscow Version [Dumbarton Oaks Studies XLV], (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2014), 829 p. (Liliana SIMEONOVA)

Vie scientifique

Bulgarian-Romanian Colloquium “North and South of the Danube: Missionaries, Travelers, Merchants (15th-18th Centuries)” (Malamir SPASOV)

Sommaire

Alexandre KOSTOV, Premessa

Vincenzo MANNINO (Pro-Rettore per le Relazioni internazionali dell’Università Roma Tre), Discorso inaugurale 

Alberto BASCIANI, La diplomazia italiana e la cortina di ferro nel Sud-est dell’Europa. Osservazioni e reazioni su una realtà tra sovietizzazione e scisma titino (1944-1948)

Francesco GUIDA, La Bulgaria alla fine del secondo conflitto mondiale e gli albori del regime comunista

Alexandre KOSTOV, The Economic Relations between Bulgaria and Italy (1945-1953)

Antonio D’ALESSANDRI, Gli esiti della pianificazione economica in Bulgaria e i rapporti commerciali con l’Italia

Penka DANOVA, Studi ed edizioni di fonti italiane per la storia bulgara in Bulgaria. Bilancio di due ventenni

Svetlozar ELDAROV, Παράνοια: Tratti della vita quotidiana nella Legazione bulgara a Roma negli anni Cinquanta del secolo scorso

Luigi Vittorio FERRARIS, Una esperienza diplomatica a Sofia negli anni Sessanta

Giuseppe COSSUTO, Una eco in Italia della persecuzione delle popolazioni musulmane e di lingua turca nella Bulgaria degli anni Cinquanta

Nikola KAZANSKI, Giordano Bruno in Bulgaria stalinista: Slavy Boyanov, il primo filosofo dissidente comunista e l’Italia

Anna VLAEVSKA, Storia di un problema storiografico: A proposito delle orme (proto)bulgare in Italia tra leggenda e memoria storica

This issue is dedicated to the 11th Congress of South-East European Studies of AIESEE "South-East Europe and European Integration: Political, Socioeconomic and Social Aspects", hold in Sofia from 31 August to 4 September 2015 http://balkanstudies.bg/congress2015/en/. It contains welcome messages, opening speeches and a selection of papers from different panels of the congress which were submitted for publication.

Opening Speeches and Congratulatory Messages

Articles

Yura KONSTANTINOVA, Becoming European-Like: the Bulgarian Community in Salonica in the Early 20th Century

Iskra DOBREVA, Judeo-Spanish Texts in Cyrillic Script in the Turn of 20th Century

Yorgos CHRISTIDIS, Belgrade-Pristina Relations and the Challenge of European Integration

Konstantinos GOGOS, Aspects of European integration: Recent developments in public policies towards Muslims in Greece, and the European context

Rachele BEZZINI, Researching Albanian-Italian/ Romanian mixed marriages

Aleksander LORENČIČ, Aspects of Economic Transition Illustrated by Examples from Slovenia, Serbia and Croatia

Georgeta NAZARSKA, Muslim Cultural Heritage in Bulgaria: Preservation, Conservation and Socialization during the European Integration Process (1990s-2014)