Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya
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Bulgarian language
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: История славянобългарска, Istoriya slavyanobalgarska, and translated as Slavonic-Bulgarian History) is a book by Bulgaria
Bulgaria
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n scholar and clergyman Saint Paisius of Hilendar. Written in 1762, it is considered Saint Paisius of Hilendar's greatest work and one of the most influential pieces of the Bulgarian revival, as well as the first work of Bulgarian historiography
Historiography
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. Paisius' motivation to write this piece of literature was to ensure that a "nation with a glorious past has the right to a splendid future".
Although he was based in the Hilendar Monastery in the Holy Mount Athos
Mount Athos
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(today an autonomous province in Greece
Greece
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), Paisius travelled extensively throughout the country and abroad and collected a vast amount of references to compile and write his concise but extremely powerful version of Bulgarian history.
The importance of this manuscript is that it was able to restore national pride to a country, which after 366 years of Ottoman rule was lacking in such passion. What would follow is known as the Bulgarian National Revival
Bulgarian National Revival
The Bulgarian National Revival , sometimes called the Bulgarian Renaissance, was a period of socio-economic development and national integration among Bulgarian people under Ottoman rule...
, in which Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya played a significant role.
The book's first manual copy was done by Sophronius of Vratsa
Sophronius of Vratsa
Saint Sophronius of Vratsa , born Stoyko Vladislavov , was a Bulgarian cleric and one of the leading figures of the early Bulgarian National Revival....
in 1765. Structurally, Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya consists of two introductions, several chapters that discuss various historic events, a chapter about the "Slavic teachers", the disciples of Cyril and Methodius, a chapter about the Bulgarian saints, and an epilogue.
The Zografou
Zograf Monastery
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draft of the Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya is depicted on the reverse
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of the Bulgarian 2 levs
Bulgarian lev
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banknote, issued in 1999 and 2005.
External links
- Full original text of "История славянобългарска" including commentary, bibliography, and a biographical note about the author by Yordan Ivanov, published in 1914 by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (in Bulgarian)
- Excerpts from Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya in modern Bulgarian
- L’Histoire slavo-bulgare de Paisij de Hilendar Traduction et commentaire French translation and commentary by Athanase Popov (retrieved on 24 July 2009).