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The communities who lived in the Balkans between 7000 and 4000 Cal. BC have been the focus of intensive and increasingly inter-disciplinary research for the last forty years. Dwelling between the warm, dry Mediterranean zones of the Aegean and Anatolia and the cooler and snowier Central European heartlands, these communities created distinctive social formations that left enduring marks on today's landscapes. One of the key trends in these millennia concerned the high value attributed to the exotic, especially if it was represented by objects of striking colour and brilliance. Thus, the preference, wherever possible, for long-term sedentary lifeways was often in counterpoise with strategies for bringing distinctive objects from remote places back to the settlement for local 'domestication'. The prehistoric site of Orlovo has been investigated neither by excavation nor by systematic field walking but by repeated field visits, over many years, and the collection of objects exposed by the plough. The result is an extraordinarily rich and diverse collection of objects whose contexts are poorly known but whose diversity reminds us not so much of an excavated settlement as an excavated Chalcolithic cemetery. This collection has challenged us to develop an approach in which theory was integrated with methodology to propose as complete an interpretation of the site as could be done from an unstructured surface collection. The collection studied in this book is significant for the prehistory not only of South East Bulgaria but also for European prehistory as a whole, and its study and publication therefore sheds light on the worlds of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic communities of the Balkans through the prism of a single site. ... Read more

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Papers from the Proceedings of the International Symposium in the Memory of Professor Mieczyslaw Domaradzki. Contents: 1) Urbanisation in Thrace (Jan Bouzek); 2) Pre-Roman Cities in Thrace and the notion of civic identity (Zofia Archibald); 3), Addendum on the inscription of Vetren: custom duties of the Odrysians (Louisa Loukopoulou); 4), Graeco-Thracian relations in the Upper Maritza valley (5th-4th c. B.C.) (based on epigraphic evidence) (Lidia Domaradzka); 5) The trade contacts of Pistiros during the second half of the 4th century B.C. (Valentina Taneva); 6) Die Metallerzlagerstatten im Pistirosgebiet (Daniela Katincarova); 7) Investigation and conservation of finds from various materials excavated at Pistiros (Emilia Ivanova); 8) The Earliest Mycenaean pottery imports in Bulgaria (Stefan Alexandrov); 9) Le sud du Budgeac au Ier millenaire av. J.-C. (decouvertes archeologiques et interpretations historiques) (Valeriu Sirbu et al.); 10) The fortress walls on the Nebettepe, Plovdiv, before the establishment of Roman rule in Thrace (Vera Kolarova, Mina Bospatchieva); 11) A pottery group with Geometric decoration from a Thracian site at Koprivlen in south-western Bulgaria (Anelia Bokova); 12) Pithoi from the archaeological site at Koprivlen (Veselin Hadjiangelov); 13) Palaeobotanical and anthropological analysis from the Koprivlen site (Gotze Delchev district)(Tzvetana Popova); 14) Das antike Strassennetz im mittleren Mestagebiet (Peter Delev, Christo Popov); The Thracian settlement on the Tsarevets hill from the 5th to the 3rd century B.C. (Bogdana Lilova); 15) Thracian tumuli in the Pazardzhik district (Nedyalka Gizdova); 16) The Mal-tepe complex near Mezek (Totko Stoyanov); 16), Tumular architectonic monuments from the present-day Bulgarian land (second half of the first millennium B.C.) and their relation to Thracian religion (Diana Dimitrova); 17), Problems of the social structure of the communities in Thrace and Illyria reflected in the burial practices of the 6th-4th centuries B.C. (Roumen Radev); 18) The horse in Thracian burial rites (Momchil Kuzmanov); 19) An attempt at characterisation of the slabs from the town of Razlog in the cultural-religious context of the Late Bronze Age in Bulgarian Lands (Svetlina Ganeva); 20) Cult places of the Thracians in the Eastern Rhodope Mountains (end of the 2nd-1st millennium B.C.)(Georgi Nekhrizov); 21) Contributions to the study of the Thracian cult practices of the 1st millennium B.C. in the Western Rhodopes (Alexey Gotzev); 22), Les depots dAeoffrandes du deuxieme age du fer dans le sanctuaire thrace de Babjak, le Rhodope Occidental (Milena Tonkova); 23), Das Heiligtum zu ebener Erde in einem der Tume der hellenistischen Festung beim Dorfe Bosnek, Kreis Pernik (Venetzija Liubenova); 24) The pit sanctuary at the village of Koprivlen (Darina Vulcheva, Stoyanka Dimitrova); 25) The Beykush Sanctuary of Achilles from the Greek Colonisation Period in the Lower Bug Region (Sergey Buyskykh); 26) Celts in Thrace? A reappraisal (Vincent Megaw); 27) The Celts and the northern limits of Thracian coinage in Central Europe (Mariusz Mielczarek); 28) oDer Schlaf von Orpheuso bei Thrakern und Kelten (Ivan Marazov); 29) Pontic notes (without notes)(Gocha R. Tsetskhladze); 30) Scytho-Thracian cultural contacts in the northwestern Black Sea Littoral (Eugenya Redina); 31) The Getae and Tyras in the Hellenistic age (Tatjana Samoilova); 32) The island of Thasos before written sources: recent investigations into the Palaeolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages (Stratis Papadopoulos); 32) A new interpretation of the gold treasure from Dobroudja (IGCH 796?)(Boriana Rousseva); 33) Thracian coins from the Seuthopolis region recently acquired by the Historical Museum oIskrao (Kosjo Zarev). ... Read more

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The articles in this volume contribute to a relatively new domain of scholarly research - the ecological anthropology, focusing especially on contemporary crises and disasters from different background: natural, social, technological, etc. Based upon expanded field work, in some cases - from a terrain difficult to access, the authors investigate a variety of disasters' situations in two contemporary societies of the developing world - China in Southeast Asia, and Bulgaria in the Southeast European Balkans. The forms of disasters researched, include: epidemics and health-threads (SARS, AIDS, Bird Flu, rat disease, small pox, typhoid fever, etc.); ecologically related disasters (bio-disasters), social catastrophic events (transition in political regime, and towards reforming and opening, also towards a market economy), natural crises (arid areas, snow-falls, rain-falls, draughts). Attention is paid to a full scale disasters' life-cycle from the creation and evaluation of a risk-vulnerability, individual and social reaction and coping strategies, up to the relief management. The articles investigate the interrelationships between cultural, demographic, political, economic, and environmental domains related to the disasters - e.g., the social context of the crisis. It is the authors' understanding that this context defines the preparedness, mobilization, and prevention of disasters for each discrete group of people or society. The volume applies a broad ethnological approach to the field of disasters' study, which interprets them comparatively, contextually, and in cross-cultural perspective. It is conceived as a first volume of a series investigation papers of a joint research team on this topic. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: St George's Day, Martenitsa, Name Days in Bulgaria, Kukeri, Nestinarstvo, Vidovdan, Egg Decorating in Slavic Culture, Rozhen National Folklore Fair, Baba Marta, Koledari, Pizho and Penda. Excerpt:Baba Marta (Bulgarian : , "Grandmother March") is the name of a mythical figure who brings with her the end of the cold winter and the beginning of the spring. Her holiday of the same name is celebrated in Bulgaria on March 1 with the exchange and wearing of martenitsas . Baba Marta is seen as an old lady who has very contrasting moods. This is related to the weather during the month of March, which is traditionally extremely variable in Bulgaria warm and sunny weather means that Baba Marta is happy; when she is angry, the winter frost returns. The majority of the customs connected to Baba Marta aim to make her happy and so bring about spring all the faster. See also (online edition) On March 1, Bulgarians pay tribute to Grany March, also known as Baba Marta by tying red and white strings called martenistas around their wrists. The bracelet serve as reminder of the coming change of season. References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Ukrainian pysanky The tradition of egg decoration in Slavic cultures originated in pagan times, and was transformed by the process of religious syncretism into the Christian Easter egg . Nevertheless, these decorated eggs have retained much of their pagan symbolism. Many Slavic ethnic groups, including the Bulgarians (, pisano yaytse ), Croats ( pisanica ), Czechs ( kraslice ), Poles ( pisanka ), Serbs (, pisanica ), Slovaks ( kraslica ), Sorbs , Slovenes ( pisanica or pirh ), and Ukrainians (, pysanka ), decorate eggs for Easter . Many of the names derive from the Slavic root pisa which relates to writing. I... ... Read more

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The Macedonians ? also referred to as Macedonian Slavs ? are a South Slavic people who are primarily associated with the Republic of Macedonia. They speak the Macedonian language, a South Slavic language. About two thirds of all ethnic Macedonians live in the Republic of Macedonia, although there are also communities in a number of other countries. ... Read more

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Gender equality permeates all areas of action in the EU enlargement process. Although in principle equality has been achieved in all candidate countries, women have not yet practically benefitted from this since institutional mechanisms for implementation are missing. ... Read more

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From the author: The author is with the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in Berlin. This paper was presented at the conference "Eine unterschatzte Dimension? Zur Rolle wirtschaftskultureller Faktoren in der osteuropaischen Transformation" in Bremen December 7-8, 1998. The author would like to thank the participants of this conference and two anonymous referees for helpful suggestions on an earlier draft. The views expressed in this paper are strictly those of the author.

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Title: Culture, Cognitive Models, and the Performance of Institutions in Transformation Countries.
Author: Eckehard F. Rosenbaum
Publication: Journal of Economic Issues (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2001
Publisher: Association for Evolutionary Economics
Volume: 35Issue: 4Page: 889(21)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Radio Nova {101.70 FM} is a Bulgarian radio station for electronic and dancefloor music only. Radio Nova began broadcasting in December 2003 as a Christmas Radio, and from January 1, 2004, was named Nova. Radio Nova transmits in Sofia on 101.7 MHz, in Varna on 91.2 MHz until May 13, 2006, and in Stara Zagora on 93.6 MHz until July 2004. Radio broadcasting is an audio (sound) broadcasting service, broadcast through the air as radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation) from a transmitter to a receiving antenna. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast common programming, either in syndication or simulcast or both. Audio broadcasting also can be done via cable FM, local wire networks, satellite and the Internet. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Radio City is a commercial radio station in Bulgaria aimed at young people. The format of Radio City is CHR, playing the biggest current hits from popular music genres (Pop, R&B, Dance and etc.) Radio City was founded in 1998 as an association between Kamen Spasov and Jonas Siljemark. Radio City began broadcasting in February 2001. First in the capital Sofia at 99.7 MHz and later in Plovdiv, Varna, Stara Zagora, Blagoevgrad and Kyustendil. In 2007 won a license for Lovech. From August 19, 2008 Radio City broadcasts in Ruse and Veliko Tarnovo. Radio City program is also transmitted via cable and satellite operators in Bulgaria. In 2005 the media created and began broadcasting a music television channel called City TV (Bulgaria). ... Read more