History of Bulgaria: Primary Documents
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- Site contains multiple legends about Bulgarian rulers and religion of the pre-Christian period.
- (transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- (transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- Site contains written sources of the pre-Bulgarian period.
- (facsimiles in Greek and old Bulgarian).
- Document contains historical information about Byzantine Empire which had close relations with Bulgarians .
- (284 - 813; commentaries, transcription in the Russian language).
- Document contains history of the southern Slavic people and Goths.
- (5th - 12th centuries; commentaries, transcription in the Russian language).
- Site contains fragments of the writings of the foreign witnesses about Bulgaria
- (5th – 12th centuries; facsimiles, transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- Site contains image of the oldest artifact with ancient Bulgarian written language
- (7th - 9th centuries; facsimiles in the ancient Bulgarian language).
- Document contains genealogy of the Bulgarian rulers .
- (681 - 767; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- Site contains fragments carved on the rock in Madara about reign of the Bulgarian ruler Tervel.
- (700 - 721; transcription in Greek and translation in Bulgarian).
- Site contains map of the Battle between Bulgarian ruler Tervel and Byzantine Empire
- (708; transcription in the English language).
- Byzantine and Medieval sources in English translation.
- (700 - 1204; English-language transcriptions)
- Site contains images, facts, and legends about conquering the Avars’ lands by Bulgarian Khan Krum
- (803 – 814; facsimile, images, transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- (803 – 814; map, transcription in the Bulgarian and English languages).
- (814 - 831; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- Site contains inscription made during the reign of Khan Omurtag on the column of the church.
- (822; facsimile in Greek, translation in the Bulgarian language).
- Site contains text of the first Bulgarian laws
- (after 865; commentaries, transcription in the Russian language).
- (866; commentaries, transcription in the English language).
- (866; facsimile).
- Site contains fragments of the documents about the reign of the prince
- (9th century; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- Document written by monk Chraber contains information about creation of the Cyrillic alphabet
- (9th - 10th century; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- (927 - 969; facsimile).
- Site contains poetic praise to the Bulgarian tsar Simeon 1.
- (10th century; commentaries, transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- Site contains fragment of the Chronicles of the Simeon Lagotet about the Bulgarian tsar Simeon 1.
- (10th century; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- Document contains some rules and politics about new Christian religion.
- (10th century; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- Document contains information about Byzantine and its relationship with Bulgaria.
- (1st half of the 10th century; transcription in the Russian language).
- Document contains information about wars of Kyivska Rus with Byzantine and Bulgaria.
- (2nd half of the 10th century; transcription in the Russian language).
- (934; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- (second half of the 10th century; image, fragment of the facsimile).
- Document contains information about religious and political situation in the country.
- (10th - 11th centuries; facsimiles, images, transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- Document contains information about relationship between Byzantine and Bulgaria,
- (12th century; transcription in the Russian language).
- (12th century; image, facsimile).
- Document contains information about rulers and political situation in Bulgaria.
- (12th – 15th centuries; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- Site contains information about the role of Bulgarian Tsar in the wars of the crusaders
- (1204 - 1206; transcription in the English language).
- (1207 - 1218; map, transcription in the English language).
- (1218 - 1241; image, transcription in the German language).
- (1218 - 1241; image, facsimile).
- (1277; image, transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- Document was written by tsar Konstantin Asen about rights of the people of the city Scople.
- (1300; transcription in the Russian language).
- Document contains inscription which is probably dedicated to Tsar Ivan Asen II
- (14th century; facsimile in old Bulgarian, transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- Site contains document of the transferring lands to the monastery by Bulgarian tsar Mikhail Asen.
- (1325; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- (1323 - 1330; images, commentaries in the Bulgarian language).
- Document was written by tsar Ivan Shiman about rights of monastery.
- (1378; transcription in the Russian language).
- Site contains the fragment of the record of the historical relationship between Osman Empire, Bulgaria, and Byzantine Empire.
- (14th – 15th ; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- Document contains historical information about situation in the Government.
- (1st half of the 15th century; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- (16th century; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- The first general geography textbook in Bulgarian.
- (1835; facsimile book)
- Site contains multiple fragments of the letters of the leaders of the national - liberation rising .
- (1875 - 1876; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- Site contains multiple fragments of the documents about national- liberation rising .
- (April 20, 1876; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- (1876; facsimile, transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- Documents consists conditions of Bulgarians in Turkey.
- (April 1877; transcription in the Russian language).
- Document contains information about two days of battle for Plevna and arrest of Osman-Pasha .
- (November 28 - 29, 1877; transcription in the Russian language).
- Documents consists information about the war of Russian Empire against Turkey for the liberty of Bulgaria.
- (1877; transcription in the Russian language).
- Document contains information about battle for Plevna written by witness Rogge.
- (November 29, 1877; transcription in the Russian language).
- Document contains agreement between Germany, Russian, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey about territorial and political changes among Balkan countries, including Bulgaria.
- (1878; transcription in the Russian language).
- Site contains code, territory, and population of the region.
- (1878 - 1908; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- Site contains map of the Eastern Rumelia in the surroundings of the neighbors .
- (1878 - 1908; image).
- (April 16, 1879; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- (November 2, 1885; image, facsimile in the Bulgarian language, translation in English).
- Searchable book-length travel reports digitized at the University of Michigan.
- (19th-20th century; hundreds of facsimiles in many languages)
- Documents, maps, constitutions, manifests, treaties, and so forth.
- (19th - 20th centuries; facsimiles)
- (1912 - 1913; images, commentaries in the Bulgarian language).
- Document contains conditions of the union of two countries and the role of Turkey and Russia in it .
- (March 13, 1912; transcription in the Russian language).
- (before 1913; image, commentaries in the Russian language).
- Document contains Treaty of Peace between Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Serbia on the one part and Turkey on the other part.
- (May 17, 1913; transcription in the English language).
- (pre-1914 - post-1918; translations and transcriptions)
- Major Resource
- 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)
- Site contains multiple documents about Bulgarian Tsar Boris III.
- (October 3, 1918 – August 28, 1943; image, facsimile in the Bulgarian language).
- Map of the Balkans as they were newly organized at the end of World War I, after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- (1918; zoomable map)
- Site contains multiple documents about war prisoners of the World War I.
- (1920; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- (April 26, 1941; facsimile in the Bulgarian language).
- (December 6, 1947; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- Library of Congress guide to constitutional, legal and government documents.
- Istorija Balkana : 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)
- Document contains information about situation in country.
- (July, 1956; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- (May 18, 1971; transcription in the Bulgarian language).
- Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
- (Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)
- (August 5, 2010; facsimile in the Bulgarian language).
- (Facsimiles)
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