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)

Articles

• Simeon MITROPOLITSKI, Types of euroscepticism: the case of Bulgaria
  
• Blagovest NJAGULOV, Entre le paradis et l’enfer : l’histoire, Baltchik et la Dobroudja mises au point
  
  
• Tsvetomir TODOROV, The Historiographical Rethinking of the Bulgarian Schism (1872) through the Postsecular Perspective – Reasons and Consequences
  
  
• Ivaylo NAYDENOV, The Merchant Network of the Puliev Family in the First Half of the 19th Century

"Frontières aux confins de l’Europe: mémoires et identités parallèles"

• Stefka PARVEVA, Creating and preserving the collective memory of war conflicts in the Ottoman border periphery: the battles of Michael Viteazul with the Ottoman Empire during the War of the Holy League (1593-1606)
  
• Catherine HOREL, Fiume-Rijeka, frontières et identités 1880-1921

Reviews

• Yura KONSTANTINOVA, Russia in Search of Itself: Historical Roots and Present Day Projections (Тина Георгиева, Консерватизъм и национализъм в Русия. Втората половина на 60-те – средата на 80-те години на ХІХ век, Фабер, 2015)
  
  
• Ludmila MINDOVA, Voir l’Autre (Саня Велкова-Кожухарова. Българи и гърци. Черти от взаимните им представи. София, ИБЦТ – БАН, 2014)
  
  
• Gergana GEORGIEVA, A New Study on the Seventeenth – Eighteenth Century Balkan Rural Society (Стефка Първева, Земята и хората през ХVІІ – първите десетилетия на ХVІІІ век. Овладяване и организация на аграрното и социалното пространство в Централните и Южните Балкани под османска власт. София, АИ „Проф. Марин Дринов”, 2011)

Bibliographic Records

• Pierre Gilles, Itinéraires byzantins. Lettre à un ami. Du Bosphore de Thrace. De la topographie de Constantinople et de ses antiquités. Introd., trad. du latin et notes par Jean-Pierre Grélois [CNRS – Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance. Monographies 28], Paris, Association des amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2007 (Liliana SIMEONOVA)
  
  

Articles

Vanya LOZANOVA, Mirabilia: Miracles and Monsters. Several Preliminary Words

Vanya LOZANOVA, Mirabilia еt Monstra

Valeria FOL, The Great Goddess-Mother and the Monster Kenchrines

Joanna SPASSOVA-DIKOVA, Fantastic Creatures in Performative Arts

Ruja POPOVA, The Heraclean Tradition and Thrake Tempted into Poisons and Miracles

Vyara KALFINA, Hecuba’s Metamorphosis into a Dog: Toponymic and Literary Dimensions

Nevena PANOVA, Monstrosity vs. Hospitality. Two Meetings between Odysseus and Polyphemus

Penka DANOVA, On the Miracles of Bulgaria in 13th–14th Century Western European Treatises and Encyclopaediae: Unicornia, Tigrides and Castoria

Albena GEORGIEVA, The Miracle Working Healing Spring

Vihra BAEVA, Loved by a Dragon: Topoi and Idiosyncrasies in Oral Narratives from Bulgaria

Iliyana GARAVALOVA, Erketch Tale about Dragons and Wild People

Ivona KARACHOROVA, Prayers and Spells against Unholy and Evil Spirits in a Nineteenth-Century Prayer Canon