Ivan Roussev,
Professor, DSc.
Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Department of Management
University of Economics – Varna
77, Knyaz Boris I Blvd.
9002 Varna BULGARIA
E-mail: ivroussev@ue-varna.bg
SCOPUS Researcher ID: 57290233200
Web of Science Researcher IDAAN-4300-2020
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7143-7651
Svetla Atanasova,
Professor, PhD
Regional Museum of History – Veliko Tarnovo
38, Ivan Vazov St.
5000, Veliko Tarnovo BULGARIA
E-mail: svetla_atanasova1969@abv.bg; satanasova069@gmail.com
SCOPUS Researcher ID: 57415720400
Web of Science Researcher ID AAT-3480-2021
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8890-2516
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Pages: 371 – 432 | https://doi.org/10.53656/978-619-7667-81-3-v2.09
Abstract. The Trade was a strong, modernizing factor in Bulgarian society during the epoch which we conventionally call the Renaissance (National Revival period) and which covered the 18th century and the first three quarters of the 19th century – the time when the Bulgarians were one of the peoples of the Ottoman Empire. Trade was the economic sphere in which the new structures entered earliest and most powerfully, and in and through which the Bulgarians stood closest to Europe. Renaissance commerce quickly mastered and applied the institutes of modern commercial law. Bulgarians established their own commercial companies in the varieties known by the mid-nineteenth century and used all the innovations associated with the organisation of the commercial office, accounting records, transport and advertising. This chapter presents some of essential aspects of the modern commercial culture: a spread of modern commercial knowledge and culture in Bulgarian society in the 18th – 19th centuries; тhe educational model adopted by the Bulgarians by the European and Balkan influences; the achievements of the Bulgarians during the epoch; the legal basis and legal regulations of commercial companies; the Ottoman commercial law and its application in the Bulgarian lands; the weights and measures act in the Ottoman Empire and the legal regulations and administrative control; the modern capitalist trade practices in the Bulgarian lands; is made here an attempt at quantitative and regional analysis for the diffusion of the Bulgarian commercial companies during the 18th – 19th centuries with accent for the cities and regions where this structures were more well-known and diffused: Sliven and Kotel, Tarnovo, Plovdiv, Koprivshtitsa, Karlovo, Varna, Gabrovo, Vratsa, Pleven, Tsarigrad (Istanbul) etc.
The chapter presents the results of the research of two authors and the contributions of Bulgarian and regional historical scholarship from the late 19th century to today about the topic of the history of the modern commercial culture of the Bulgarians in the 18th – 19th centuries. The enclosed large bibliography (references) at the end of the chapter may serve for future research on the topic.
Keywords: Ottoman Empire; modern commercial culture; Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire; commercial companies; Bulgarian National Revival period
Свързани статии:
The Economic History of the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire (15th – early 20th Centuries) – Ideas for Periodization and Research Perspectives
Ottoman Public Finance in the 18th to 20th Centuries: Questions, Answers, and Perspectives
Commercial Entrepreneurship during the Bulgarian National Revival Period – Historiographical Aspects
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)
