History of Bulgaria: Primary Documents

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Flag of Bulgaria

(transcription in Bulgarian)

Maps and images of transformations as seen through cultural artifacts.
Includes data on former Roman provinces found in modern countries, including Bulgaria.
Shows the emergence of a common culture in the northern provinces of the Roman Empire from Britain to the Black Sea.
Geographic and thematic approaches available in nine languages.
(Antiquity through 212 A.D.; maps and facsimile images)

Legends about Bulgarian rulers and religion of the pre-Christian period.
(transcription in Bulgarian)

Written sources from the pre-Bulgarian period.
(facsimiles in Greek and old Bulgarian)

Historical information about the Byzantine Empire, which had close relations with Bulgaria.
(284-813; commentaries and transcription in Russian)

A history of the South Slavs and the Goths.
(5th to 12th centuries; commentaries and transcription in Russian)

Foreigners' accounts of Bulgaria
(5th to 12th centuries; facsimiles, transcription in Bulgarian)

Images and description of the Pliska Rosette, the oldest known artifact written in ancient Bulgarian.
(7th to 9th centuries; facsimiles in ancient Bulgarian)

Genealogy of Bulgarian rulers.
(681-767; transcription in Bulgarian)

Transcription and translation of the Madara Rider inscriptions, which regard the reign of the Bulgarian ruler Tervel.
(700-721; transcription in Greek and translation in Bulgarian)

Map of the battle between Bulgarian ruler Tervel and the Byzantine Empire.
(708; transcription in English)

Byzantine and Medieval sources in English translation.
(700-1204; transcription in English)

Images, facts, and legends about the conquer of the Avars’ lands by the Bulgarian Khan Krum.
(803-814; facsimile, images, transcription in Bulgarian)

(803–814; map, transcription in Bulgarian and English)

(814-831; transcription in Bulgarian)

Short article on the inscription made during the reign of Khan Omurtag on a column of the Holy Forty Martyrs Church.
(822; facsimile in Greek, translation in Bulgarian)

Text of the first Bulgarian laws.
(after 865; commentaries, transcription in Russian)

(866; commentary, transcription in English)

(866; facsimile)

Includes portions of documents about the reign of the prince.
(9th century; transcription in Bulgarian)

Document written by the monk Chraber which contains information about creation of the Cyrillic alphabet.
(9th to 10th century; transcription in Bulgarian)

(927-969; facsimile).

Poetic praise to the Bulgarian Tsar Simeon I.
(10th century; commentaries, transcription in Bulgarian)

Fragment of the Chronicles of Simeon Lagotet about the Bulgarian Tsar Simeon I.
(10th century; transcription in Bulgarian)

Counsel on animal sacrifice.
(10th century; transcription in Bulgarian)

Information about Byzantium and its relationship with Bulgaria.
(First half of 10th century; transcription in Russian)

Information about wars of Kyivska Rus with Byzantium and Bulgaria.
(Latter part of the 10th century; transcription in Russian)

(934; transcription in Bulgarian)

(Second half of the 10th century; image, fragment of the facsimile)

Information about the religious and political situation in the country.
(10th to 11th centuries; facsimiles, images, transcription in Bulgarian)

Information about the relationship between Byzantium and Bulgaria.
(12th century; transcription in Russian)

(12th century; image, facsimile)

Information about the rulers and political situation in Bulgaria.
(12th to 15th centuries; transcription in Bulgarian)

Information about the role of the Bulgarian tsar in the wars of the Crusaders.
(1204-1206; transcription in English)

(1207-1218; map, transcription in English)

(1218-1241; image, transcription in German)

(1218-1241; image, facsimile)

(1277; image, transcription in Bulgarian)

Document written by Tsar Konstantin Asen regarding the rights of the people of the city Scople.
(1300; transcription in Russian)

Inscription which is probably dedicated to Tsar Ivan Asen II.
(14th century; facsimile in old Bulgarian, transcription in Bulgarian)

Document transferring lands to the monastery by Bulgarian Tsar Mikhail Asen.
(1325; transcription in Bulgarian)

(1323-1330; images, commentaries in Bulgarian)

Declaration of the rights of the monastery, written by Tsar Ivan Shiman.
(1378; transcription in Russian)

Fragment of the record of the historical relationship between Osman Empire, Bulgaria, and Byzantine Empire.
(14th to 15th centuries; transcription in Bulgarian)

(16th century; transcription in Bulgarian)

This portion focuses on the years 1105-1489.
(1620; transcription in Bulgarian)

The first general geography textbook in Bulgarian.
(1835; facsimile book)

List of digitized newspapers.
(1875-1945; transcription in Bulgarian)

Multiple fragments of the letters of the leaders of the nationalist movement.
(1875-1876; transcription in Bulgarian)
Map of the Balkans.
(20 April 1876; transcription in Bulgarian)
(1876; facsimile, transcription in Bulgarian)

Document details conditions of Bulgarians in Turkey.
(April 1877; transcription in Russian)

Information about two days of the Siege of Plevna and the arrest of Osman-Pasha.
(28 to 29 November 1877; transcription in Russian)

Information about the Russo-Turkish War.
(1877; transcription in Russian)

Information about the Siege of Plevna written by an eyewitness, Hippolytus Mikhailovich Rogge.
(29 November 1877; transcription in Russian)

Document contains agreement between Germany, Russian, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey about territorial and political changes among Balkan countries, including Bulgaria.
(1878; transcription in Russian)

The code, territory, and population of the region.
(1878-1908; transcription in Bulgarian)

Map of Eastern Rumelia and its neighbors.
(1878-1908; image)

(16 April 1879; transcription in Bulgarian)

(2 November 1885; image, facsimile in Bulgarian, translation in English)

Searchable book-length travel reports digitized at the University of Michigan.
(19th to 20th centuries; hundreds of facsimiles in many languages)

Documents, maps, constitutions, manifestos, treaties, and so forth.
(19th to 20th centuries; facsimiles)

(1912-1913; images, commentaries in Bulgarian)

Conditions of the union between the two countries and the role of Turkey and Russia.
(13 March 1912; transcription in Russian)

(before 1913; image, commentaries in Russian)

Document contains peace treaty between Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Serbia on one side and Turkey on the other.
(17 May 1913; transcription in English)

(pre-1914 to post-1918; translations and transcriptions)
A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(1914-1918; transcriptions and translations)
Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
(1914-1919; translations)

Multiple documents about Bulgarian Tsar Boris III.
(3 October 1918 to 28 August 1943; image, facsimile in Bulgarian)

Map of the Balkans as they were organized at the end of World War I, after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
(1918; zoomable map)

Documents about prisoners of war of World War I.
(1920; transcription in Bulgarian)

(26 April 1941; facsimile in Bulgarian)

(6 December 1947; transcription in Bulgarian)

Library of Congress guide to constitutional, legal, and government documents.

Digital Balkan History
An ambitious and fast-growing collection of e-books and sources, available only in a Serbo-Croatian interface.
Requires free registration in order to view sources (See especially "Izvori").
(Facsimiles, links and an online forum)

Information about the situation in Bulgaria.
(July 1956; transcription in Bulgarian)

(18 May 1971; transcription in Bulgarian)

Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
(Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)

2009 - 2010 and 2010 - 2011
(5 August 2010; facsimile in Bulgarian)

Also contains a collection of coats of arms for other European countries and principalities.
(Facsimiles)



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