Individual Projects

Bulgaro-Albanian Political Relations 1908 – 1915.

Duration: 2017 – 2020

In charge: Asst. Prof. Dr. Georgi Georgiev.


The European Union and the Central Asian Countries: Regional Cooperation in the context of geopolitical transformations

Duration: 2017 – 2020

In charge: Assoc. Prof. Rumyana Chukova.


The American public diplomacy towards the nations of the former Eastern bloc after the end of the Cold war

Duration: 2017 – 2020

In charge: Asst. Dr. Simona Samuilova


EU – China

Duration: 2016 – 2019

In charge: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mariana Malinova Tian


Eleventh Infantry Macedonian division in the First World War: Photographs and documents

Duration: 2017 – 2018

In charge: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alexander Grebenarov


The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO/VMRO) from the end of the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising to the Balkan wars

Duration: 2016 – 2018

In charge: Asst. Prof. Dr. Slavi Slavov


Relations between Bulgaria and Dubrovnik during the Second Bulgarian Tsardom

Duration: 2015 – 2018

In charge: Asst. Prof. Dr. Elena Kostova

Results: new source materials detected as a result of the research made by the head of the project on the premises of the State Archives at Dubrovnik. Publication scheduled.


Prosopography of the Krum’s Dynasty

Duration: 2015 – 2018

In charge: Asst. Dr. Kyril Nenov


Saint Clement of Ohrid and the Bulgarians

Duration: 2014 – 2017

In charge: Prof. Ilia Iliev, DSc.

Results: a monograph prepared.


Matrimonial politics of the medieval Bulgarian rulers

Duration: 2012 – 2016

In charge: Asst. Prof. Dr. Sashka Georgieva.

Results: articles and studies published; participations in international and national conferences; a habilitation work prepared.


Design, page layout and setting up the website of the section Auxiliary historical sciences and informatics

Duration: 2016 – 2017

In charge: Prof. Dr. Valery Stojanow.

Result: website set up at: http://auxiliary.ihist.bas.bg/.


Categorizing and systematizing scholarly research on the Bulgarian transition (1989-2007)

– Support scheme for Young scholars with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for 2016, contract No 4, supervisor Prof. Dr. Iliyana Marcheva.

Beneficiary: the doctoral student Venelin Mihaylov.


Genealogy in Bulgarian historiography during the Transition years

Duration: 2015–2018.

In charge: Prof. Dr. Mancho Vekov, DSc.


Bulgaria’s modernization 1944-1989

Duration: 2015 – 2017.

In charge: Prof. Dr. Iliayana Marcheva.

Results: papers, articles and a monograph.


The Republic of Bulgaria and the Middle East (1991 – 2003)

Duration: 2015 – 2017.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Nadya Philipova.

Results: papers, articles and a monograph.


Greek sources on Bulgarian history (Byzantine authors from the XV c.)

Duration: 2013 – 2015.

In charge: Asst. Prof. Dr. Vladimir Angelov.

Results: Volume ХІІ of the series Greek sources on Bulgarian history. Selected, translated and commented by Vladimir Angelov.


Modernising Bulgaria: how German financial funds contributed to the Bulgarian economic development in the interwar period

Duration: 2013 – 2015.

In charge: Assoc.Prof. Dr. Maria Koleva.

Results: a monograph.


Bulgarian urban municipalities in Macedonia (1903 – 1912­)

Duration: 2013 – 2015.

In charge: Asst. Prof. Dr. Rositsa Lelyova.


Peter Mateev: the selfless lifelong endeavour of a Kotel man throughout two centuries: autobiography, memoirs, action

Duration: 2013 – 2015.

In charge: Asst. Dr. Aleka Strezova.


Bulgaria and Dubrovnik in the period ХIII c. – ХIV c.

Duration: 2012 – 2015 г.

In charge: Asst. Prof. Dr. Elena Kostova.

Results: papers delivered; in-print articles. The Project head took part in various international conferences and seminars.


Public, political, diplomatic and literary activity of Marko D. Balabanov after 1878

Duration: 2009 – 2015.

In charge: Assoc.Prof. Dr. Plamen Bozhinov.

Results: 7 papers delivered in front of scientific conventions; 12 publications of articles and papers.


Bulgaria’s political and cultural horizons in the 1970s and 1980s

Duration: 2012 – 2016

In charge: Assoc.Prof. Dr. Sashka Milanova.

Results: 4 scientific conferences with papers delivered and 8 scholarly publications on the topic.


Approaches to preserving national memory after 1989

Duration: 2012 – 2015.

In charge: Asst. Prof. Dr. Detelina Dineva.


Prosvesthenie (‘Enlightenment’) Brotherhood and the Bulgarian National Revolutionary Movement: from the idea of the nation set up by the organisation Mlada Bulgaria (‘Young Bulgaria’) to the Bulgarian Central Charity Society at Bucharest (1876)

Duration: 2012 – 2015.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Elena Hadzhinikolova.


France’s foreign policy from De Gaules to Mitterrand (1958-1995)

Duration: 2011 – 2014.

In charge: Assoc.Prof. Dr. Christo Milkov.


Design, page layout and setting up a personal website

Duration: 2012.

In charge: Prof. Dr. Valery Stojanow, DSc.

Results: website set up at: http://valeristica.ihist.bas.bg/


History of Bulgarian-Chinese relations

Duration: 2011 – 2013.

In charge: Assoc.Prof. Dr. Marianna Malinova Tian

Results: a monograph.


The Palestinian Question in the diplomacy of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria

Duration: 2009 – 2014.

In charge: Asst. Prof. Dr. Nadya Philipova.

Results: 4 papers and articles, and participation in 2 conferences.


Beginnings of the Bulgarian Awakening in the Bulgarian historiography (ХІХ c. – ХХ c.)

Duration: 2009 – 2013.

In charge: Asst. Prof. Dr. Lyubomila Solenkova.


Franco-Bulgarian relations in the period 1969-1974

Duration: 2009 – 2013.

In charge: Asst. Prof. Dr. Irina Grigorova.

Results: participation in 5 scientific forums with papers delivered and 12 scholarly publications on the topic.


Russia’s vice-consul at Plovdiv Nayden Gerov and the Bulgarian society (1857-1877)

Duration: 2007 – 2013.

In charge: Asst. Prof. Dr. Antoaneta Kyrilova.


Valeristica Polyhistorica. Selected contributions to some borderline history research areas

Duration: 2011–2012. Partly financed by Scientific Research Fund, Contract No ДНИТС 01/20 of 12 December 2011.

In charge: Prof. Dr. Valery Stojanow, DSc.

Results: a book:

В. Стоянов. Valeristica Polyhistorica. Избрани приноси към гранични области на историята. София: ИИИ при БАН, 2011, т. 1, 534 с.
[V. Stojanow. Valeristica Polyhistorica. Selected contributions to some borderline history fields. Sofia: Institute for historical studies with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2011, v.1, 534 pp.]


Political and military relations between Bulgarian and Albanian Liberation Movements in Macedonia (1912-1915)

Duration: 2009 – 2012.

In charge: Asst. Prof. Dr. Georgi Georgiev.


Bogdan V. Morfov– an engineer, a diplomat, a public man

Duration: 2008 – 2012.

In charge: Asst. Prof. Dr. Rumen Karaganev.


Towns and urban life in the Southwestern Bulgarian lands throughout ХІІІ c. – ХІV c. Topics on political history

Duration: 2008 – 2012.

In charge: Asst. Prof. Dr. Elena Kostova.

Results: papers delivered, articles and papers in print, as well as a monograph, translated into English and dedicated to the history of the medieval town of Melnik (from the end of ХІІ c. – to the end of ХІV c.); participation in numerous scientific conferences and seminars, as well as in the ХХІІ International congress of Byzantine studies held in Sofia in August 2011.