A concise history of Bulgaria /
R. J. Crampton; preface by Edmund Hall Oxford
- 2nd edition
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005
- xxi, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
- Cambridge concise histories .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-277) and index.
The Bulgarian lands from prehistory to the arrival of the Bulgarians Mediaeval Bulgaria, 681-1393 Ottoman rule in the Bulgarian lands The national revival and the liberation The consolidation of the Bulgarian state, 1878-1896 Ferdinand's personal rule, 1896-1918 Bulgaria, 1918-1944 Bulgaria under communist rule, 1944-1989 Post-communist Bulgaria Appendix 1 : Bulgarian monarchs Appendix 2 : Prime ministers of Bulgaria, 1879-2004
Bulgaria is slated to become a member of the European Union in 2007, yet its history is amongst the least well-known in the rest of the continent. R.J. Crampton provides here a general introduction to this country at the crossroads of Christendom and Islam. The text and illustrations trace the rich and dramatic story from prehistory, through the days when Bulgaria was the centre of a powerful mediaeval empire and the five centuries of Ottoman rule, to the cultural renaissance of the nineteenth century and the political upheavals of the twentieth, upheavals which led Bulgaria into three wars