Bułgarzy w walce o niepodległość w XIX w.

• Authors: Jarosław Rubacha

Title variants

EN

Bulgarians in struggle for independence in the 19th century

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Bulgarian lands, which at the end of the 14th century were under the Turkish rule, for several centuries were a kind of buffer zone between the Ottoman Empire and Europe. Specific geopolitical position of this area caused that Turkish power wanted to keep quiet by every accessible means. Therefore it is hard to be surprised that in Bulgaria Ottoman rules were particularly cruel, and every trial of resistance resulted in thousands of victims. The beginning of the 19th century brought change of the situation. Causes of such a state of things were numerous, but two of them seem the most essential. Firstly, it was the internal crisis of multinational Turkish state. The decreasing importance of the sultan power and ubiquitous corruption of administrative apparatus led to bigger and bigger anarchy. The endeavour to control the situation, though declared, was usually taken at the cost of non-Muslim population, which significantly radicalized the social moods. Secondly, the growth of Bulgarians’ national consciousness was doubtless, which in historiography is known as “National Awake”. It lasted for the other half of the 18th century. The abortive reforms, increase of the fiscal pressure and the growth of national consciousness already in the beginning of the 19th century encouraged Bulgarians to fight for the improvement of their existence. In this process internationalization of the “Bulgarian question” played the essential part. No matter what consequences it had for particular businesses of great European powers, it had at last to play the essential part in reactivating Bulgarian state in the year 1878. In the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century Bulgarians played special part in the events on Balkan Peninsula, becoming spiritus movens of the process which led to almost total removal of Turkey from Europe. Victims in the period of the national independence fight were not sacrificed in vain.

Keywords

EN

political history; the history of Bulgaria; Bulgaria during the Turkish occupation; the struggle for independence

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego
• Journal: Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 89-103

Dates

published

2010

Contributors

author

Jarosław Rubacha

• Warmia and Masury University in Olsztyn

Identifiers

ISSN

2081-1128