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Balkanology
Balkan studies or Balkanology is the studies of the Balkans. Institutions specializing in Balkan studies ;Academic * International Association of South-East European Studies (AIESEE) * East European and Balkan Institute, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea * Institute for Balkan Studies, Greece * Institute for Balkan Studies (or "Balkanological Institute"), Serbia (SANU) * Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology, Bulgaria ( BAN) * Balkanology Research Center, Bosnia and Herzegovina ( ANUBiH) ;University * Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, Austria * Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Greece * Department of South Slavonic and Balkan Studies, Charles University, Czech Republic * M. Drynov Center for Bulgarian and Balkan Studies, National University of Kharkiv, Ukraine * Department of Balkan Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland Notable people * Traian Stoianovich (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Dorovský
Ivan Dorovský (18 May 1935 – 24 August 2021) was a Czech Balkanologist of Macedonian origin. He worked as a literary scholar, translator, poet and publicist, university professor at Masaryk University, and Slavist. He was also the Chairman of the Society of Friends of the South Slavs. He was the 2008 recipient of the Macedonian honorary Racin Recognition for his contribution and affirmation of Macedonian literature and culture, and the 2013 recipient of the F. A. Zach Prize for his contribution to the relationship with the Serbian nation. He left Greece as a child during the civil war. Life He studied Russian and Bulgarian at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. After graduation he worked briefly as a high school professor, then from 1961 lectured at the University of Brno and in 1987 he was appointed full professor. His scientific and artistic activities spanned several fields: literary science, linguistics, ethnography and folklore studies, history, and cul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Association Of South-East European Studies
International Association of South-East European Studies, better known by its French language abbreviation AIESEE (from ) is an international scholarly, non-political and non-profit professional association focusing on Balkan studies and related fields of studies. The Association was established in Bucharest, capital of Romanian People's Republic, on 23 April 1963 and as of 2019 it brings together 25 member organizations in the field. The organization was established during the first meeting of what was then 6 Balkan countries' National UNESCO Commissions (People's Republic of Albania, Albania, People's Republic of Bulgaria, Bulgaria, Kingdom of Greece, Greece, Romanian People's Republic, Romania, Turkey and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia) pushing for regional cooperation despite the Cold War divisions in the region. The founding members ambition was to promote international solidarity, commonalities between Balkan and Third World historical experiences, regio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institute For Balkan Studies (Greece)
The Institute for Balkan Studies (), known by the acronym IMXA, is a Thessaloniki-based institution specialized in Balkan studies. The institution's activities include researching aspects of the Balkans, publishing scholarly studies and periodicals, organising conferences and academic meetings, teaching Balkan languages, and Greek courses for non-speakers. It was founded in March 1953, as a branch of the Society for Macedonian Studies. It became a private legal entity in 1974, supported by the Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs. The governing board is presided by professor Kalliopi Koufa, while the director is professor Basil Kondis. It is co-funded by the ERDF (80%) and the Greek government The Government of Greece (Greek language, Greek: Κυβέρνηση της Ελλάδας), officially the Government of the Hellenic Republic (Κυβέρνηση της Ελληνικής Δημοκρατίας) is the collective body of the Gre .... Publications IMXA pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaso Čubrilović
Vaso Čubrilović ( sr-Cyrl, Васо Чубриловић; 14 January 1897 – 11 June 1990) was a YugoslavВладимир Дедијер, ''Сарајево 1914'', Просвета, Београд 1966, стр. 568 and Bosnian Serb scholar and politician. As a teenager, he joined the South Slav student movement known as Young Bosnia and was involved in the conspiracy to Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on 28 June 1914. His brother Veljko Čubrilović, Veljko was also involved in the plot. Čubrilović was convicted of treason by the Austro-Hungarian authorities and given a sixteen-year sentence; his brother was sentenced to death and executed. Čubrilović was released from prison at war's end and studied history at the universities of University of Zagreb, Zagreb and University of Belgrade, Belgrade. In 1937, he delivered a lecture to the Serbian Cultural Club in which he advocated the expulsion of the Albanians from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balkans
The Balkans ( , ), corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch throughout the whole of Bulgaria. The Balkan Peninsula is bordered by the Adriatic Sea in the northwest, the Ionian Sea in the southwest, the Aegean Sea in the south, the Turkish straits in the east, and the Black Sea in the northeast. The northern border of the peninsula is variously defined. The highest point of the Balkans is Musala, , in the Rila mountain range, Bulgaria. The concept of the Balkan Peninsula was created by the German geographer August Zeune in 1808, who mistakenly considered the Balkan Mountains the dominant mountain system of southeastern Europe spanning from the Adriatic Sea to the Black Sea. In the 19th century the term ''Balkan Peninsula'' was a synonym for Rumelia, the parts of Europe that were provinces of the Ottoman E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irena Natalia Sawicka
Irena Natalia Sawicka (born 20 September 1944, in Warsaw) is a Polish linguist, Balkanologist, and Slavicist with significant interest in Albanology. She is among the world's most authoritative linguists who have studied the Albanian language and has greatly contributed to the dissemination, cultivation, and study of Albanian in Poland, as well as the promotion of Albanology worldwide. Education In 1968, she graduated with a degree in Slavic philology from the University of Warsaw. After her studies, she began working at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1972, she obtained her doctoral degree with a dissertation on the structure of consonant clusters in Slavic languages, under the supervision of Janusz Siatkowski. In 1978, she obtained her habilitation degree at the University of Warsaw with a dissertation titled "Issues of Nominal Predication on the Example of the Serbo-Croatian Language." In 1991, she was awarded the title of professor of hum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Todorova
Maria Nikolaeva Todorova () (born 5 January 1949, Sofia) is a Bulgarian historian who is best known for her influential book, ''Imagining the Balkans'', in which she applies Edward Said's notion of "Orientalism" to the Balkans. She is the daughter of historian and politician Nikolai Todorov, who was Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria (July 1990 – 2 October 1991) and acting President of Bulgaria in July 1990. Career Professor Maria Todorova is currently the Edward William & Jane Marr Gutgsell Endowed Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She specializes in the History of the Balkans, history of the Balkans in the modern period. Her book ''Imagining the Balkans'' (1997) has been translated into fourteen languages, including German, Polish, Greek, Italian, Bulgarian, Turkish, and Albanian. Todorova's current research revolves around problems of nationalism, especially the symbolism of nationalism, national memory and national heroes in Bul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca
Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca (3 October 1941 – 7 April 2017; ) was a Romanian historian and philologist. An ethnic Aromanian, he specialized in the study of classical philology, Byzantine and Ottoman studies and cultures of the Balkans, including the Aromanians. Biography Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca was born on 3 October 1941 in Bucharest, in the Kingdom of Romania. He was born in a family of ethnic Aromanians. His mother was the second cousin of the Aromanian neuropsychiatrist Florica Bagdasar. After completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Bucharest in 1964, Tanașoca obtained his Ph.D. in 1979 from the Faculty of Classics of the same university; his thesis, on the influence of Latin on Byzantine Greek vocabulary, was written under the direction of . Tanașoca specialized in the study of classical philology and Balkan cultures, including the Aromanians, of which he published several works. He was also considered a specialist in Byzantine and Ottoman studies. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Shmelev
Boris may refer to: People * Boris (given name), a male given name * *List of people with given name Boris * Boris (surname) Arts and media * Boris (band), a Japanese experimental rock trio * ''Boris'' (EP), by Yezda Urfa, 1975 * "Boris" (song), by the Melvins, 1991 * ''Boris'' (TV series), a 2007–2010, 2022–present Italian comedy series * '' Boris: The Film'', a 2011 Italian film based on the TV series * '' Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson'', a 2006 biography by Andrew Gimson Other uses * Boris (crater), a lunar crater * Hurricane Boris (other), several cyclones in the Eastern Pacific * Boris, a tribe of the Adi people See also * Borris (other) * Boris stones Boris Stones (, ; ), also called Dvina Stones (), are seven medieval Artifact (archaeology), artifacts erected along the bank of the Western Dvina between Polotsk and Drissa, Belarus. They probably predate Christianity in the area, but were insc ..., seven medieval artifacts in Belarus {{disa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragoljub Dragojlović
Dragoljub ( sr-cyr, Драгољуб) is a Serbian masculine given name, derived from Slavic '' drag-'' ("dear, beloved") and ''ljub'' ("love, to like"), both very common in Slavic dithematic names. It roughly means "dear love". It may refer to: * Dragoljub Brnović, Montenegrin footballer * Dragoljub Čirić, Serbian chess player * Dragoljub Janošević, Serbian chess player *Dragoljub Jeremić, footballer *Dragoljub Ljubičić, Serbian actor *Dragoljub Mićunović, Serbian politician *Dragoljub Mihailović, Chetnik leader *Dragoljub Milošević, football player and coach * Dragoljub Minić, Montenegrin chess player *Dragoljub Ojdanić, Serbian civil servant *Dragoljub Popović, judge * Dragoljub Simonović, Serbian footballer *Dragoljub Velimirović, Serbian chess player *Dragoljub Vidačić, basketball player and coach See also * *Dragomir *Slavic names Given names originating from the Slavic languages are most common in Slavic peoples, Slavic countries. The main types of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (; 26 February 1838 – ) was a Romanian writer and philologist who pioneered many branches of Romanian philology and history. Life He was born Tadeu Hâjdeu in Cristineștii Hotinului (now Kerstentsi in Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine), northern Bessarabia, at the time part of Imperial Russia. His father was the writer Alexandru Hâjdeu, a descendant of the Hâjdău family of Moldovan boyars, with noted Polish connections. Alexandru's mother was Jewish. After studying law at the University of Kharkiv, he fought as a Russian hussar in the Crimean War. In 1858, he settled in Iași as a high school teacher and librarian. In 1865, Hasdeu published a monograph on Ioan Vodă the Terrible, renaming him for the first time ''cel Viteaz''—"the Brave". The portrayal of this violent, short rule as a glorious moment (and of Ioan himself as a reformer) drew criticism from the '' Junimea'' society, a conflict which was to follow Hasdeu for the rest of his life. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radovan Samardžić
Radovan Samardžić ( sr-cyr, Радован Самарџић; Sarajevo, 22 October 1922 – Belgrade, 1 February 1994) was a Yugoslav and Serbian historian, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU). He successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on the history of Dubrovnik in 1956. As a pupil of French historian, Fernand Braudel, Samardžić, throughout of his career, focused on research of Ottoman history. Selected works * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * See also *List of Serbian historians This is a list of Serbian historians, including area of expertise. * Čedomir Antić (born 1974), the modern history of Serbia * Lazar Arsenijević Batalaka (1793-1869), history of the Serbian revolution (1803-1813) * Dušan T. Bataković (1957 ... References External links * 1922 births 1994 deaths 20th-century Serbian historians Yugoslav historians Writers from Sarajevo Ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
