Pomacy – bułgarscy poturczeńcy (na przykładzie wsi Selcza w zachodnich Rodopach)

• Authors: Mariola Walczak-Mikołajczakowa

Title variants

EN

Pomaks – Turkified Bulgarians (on the example of Selcha village in the Western part of the Rhodope mountains)

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The Selcha village, situated at the Smolian District, inhabited by Pomaks, a specific ethnos, created itself after acceptance of Islam, most likely at the turn of XVI and XVII century. Currently, this large village once (about 2 thousands inhabitants in the mid-twentieth century) shares the fate of others, ‘ageing”and ‘moribund’ village communities in Bulgaria. Author tries to recreate a complicated history of this village, in order to analyse the reasons of gradual atheisation. The author discusses the problem of the simultaneous attachment to some traditions and giving up on other traditions on the basis of the stories of inhabitants stories, legends stored in their memories and well-retained documents. All of this become a pretext to discuss (from the sociological perspective) a change of the type of husbandry and the political decisions made during the parliament elections.

EN

The Selcha village, situated at the Smolian District, is inhabited by Pomaks, a specific ethnos, created itself after acceptance of Islam, most likely at the turn of XVI and XVII century. Currently, this large village once (about 2 thousands inhabitants in the mid-twentieth century) shares the fate of others, ‘ageing”and ‘moribund’ village communities in Bulgaria. Author tries to recreate a complicated history of this village, in order to analyse the reasons of gradual atheisation. The author discusses the problem of the simultaneous attachment to some traditions and giving up on other traditions on the basis of the stories of inhabitants stories, legends stored in their memories and well-retained documents. All of this become a pretext to discuss (from the sociological perspective) a change of the type of husbandry and the political decisions made during the parliament elections.

Keywords

PL

Pomacy; dzieje poturczonych Bułgarów; kultura; tradycje

EN

Pomaks; turkiefied Bulgarians history; culture; traditions; Pomaks; turkiefied Bulgarians history; culture; traditions

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Balcanica Posnaniensia Acta et studia
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 21
• Pages: 177-184

Dates

published

2014-01-01

Contributors

author

Mariola Walczak-Mikołajczakowa

• Uniwersytet im. A. Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. Wydział Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/bp.2014.21.12