
Economic History of the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire (15th Century – Early 20th Century). Volume II.
The Bulgarians in the economic life of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th and early 20th centuries
COMPILER AND EDITOR:
Ivan ROUSSEV, Professor, DSc., Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria; University of Economics – Varna, Bulgaria
Authors:
Ayşe KAYAPINAR, Aldzhan DZHAFER, Anton SVRAKOV, Valentin KITANOV, Gergana GEORGIEVA, Delyan RUSEV, Ivaylo NAYDENOV, Ivan ROUSSEV, Krasimir KRASTEV, Krassimira MUTAFOVA, Krustyo YORDANOV, Levent KAYAPINAR, Miyryam SALIM, Milena PETKOVA, Nevena NEDELCHEVA, Nevyan MITEV, Nikolay TODOROV, Paulina ANDONOVA, Pencho D. PENCHEV, Petko St. PETKOV, Petar DOBREV, Petya NEDELEVA, Svetla ATANASOVA, Stefan DIMITROV, Hristiyan ATANASOV, Hristo HRISTOZOV, Yura KONSTANTINOVA
Reviewers:
Prof. Maria TODOROVA – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Prof. Nikolay NENOVSKY – CRIISEA, University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens
(France), University of National and World Economics, Sofia (Bulgaria)
Prof. DSc Milko PALANGURSKI – Institute for Historical Studies – BAS, Sofia
(Bulgaria)
Prof. Zhenya Zhekova – Regional Historical Museum of Shumen – Shumen (Bulgaria)
Assoc. Prof. Margarita Marinova, PhD – International Business School – Botevgrad (Bulgaria)
Editor: Savina KIRILOVA, PhD – Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (Bulgaria)
Corrector:: Aneliya Vracheva
Layout Design and Prepress: Rosen Yordanov
ISBN: 978-619-7667-81-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53656/978-619-7667-81-3-v2
This publication was realised with the support of the project BG-RRP-2.005-0001, TWIN4ECO, financed by the European Union – NextGeneration EU, executed by the Economic Faculty of Sofia University.
The publication is realised through the financial support of the Evlogi and Hristo Georgievi Foundation, as well as patriotic donors from Karlovo – the Tuchevi family, Valentin Mateev and Stanislav Bogoev.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
Ivan Roussev / pages: 9–12
Ottoman Public Finance in the 18th to 20th Centuries: Questions, Answers, and Perspectives
Hristiyan Atanasov / pages: 15 – 70
The Land Question in 19th Century
Petar Dobrev, Nikolay Todorov / pages: 71 – 104
The Proto-Industrial Revolution – Economic Models in Ottoman Rumelia
Gergana Georgieva, Nikolay Todorov / pages: 105 – 135
Tobacco in the Economic Development of the Bulgarian Lands under Ottoman Rule
Valentin Kitanov / pages: 137 – 178
The Fairs on the Bulgarian Lands before the Liberation
Aldzhan Dzhafer, Miyryam Salim / pages: 179 – 230
The Urban Economics on the Bulgarian Lands in the 19th Century
Svetla Atanasova / pages: 231 – 286
Guild Court and Administration of Justice of the Bulgarian Guild Organizations during the Period of the Ottoman Rule
Petya Nedeleva / pages: 287 – 303
Commercial Entrepreneurship during the Bulgarian National Revival Period – Historiographical Aspects
Ivaylo Naydenov / pages: 305 – 370
The Modern Commercial Culture of the Bulgarians in the 18th – 19th Centuries
Ivan Roussev, Svetla Atanasova / pages: 371 – 432
The Rise of a Commercial Enterprise during the Bulgarian National Revival Period in Karlovo: the Company of the Brothers Evlogi and Hristo Georgievi (1830s – early 1850s)
Ivaylo Naydenov / pages: 433 – 457
Economic Activities of the Bulgarian Community in Thessaloniki (Second Half of the 19th – Early 20th Centuries)
Yura Konstantinova / pages: 459 – 488
Bulgarian Modern Accounting – Emergence and Development in the 19th and early 20th Centuries
Anton Svrakov / pages: 489 – 523

