Certified Bulgarian historiography dates back to the 17th century. In principle, the terms ''Bulgarian Historiography'' and ''Historiography of Bulgaria'' overlap, given that until the liberation of Bulgaria there are only two stories (the first of Bulgaria and the second of Bulgarians) written by foreign authors –

Blasius Kleiner Blasius Kleiner was a Franciscan monk who wrote the History of Bulgaria one year before Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya. It is not clear when and where he was born, but he died in 1785. He lived in Alvinz (Vințu de Jos). In his motives for this hist ...

(1761) and on

Konstantin Jireček Konstantin Josef Jireček (24 July 1854 10 January 1918) was an Austro-Hungarian Czech historian, politician, diplomat, and Slavist. He was the founder of Bohemian Balkanology (or Balkan Studies) and Byzantine studies, and wrote extensively o ...

(1876). Bulgaria and the Bulgarians are widely attested in medieval chronicles and writings, but their thematic independent history is absent until the 17th century. The first major work concerning Bulgarian history is the

Kingdom of the Slavs ''The Kingdom of the Slavs'' ( it, Il Regno de gli Slavi) is a book by Mavro Orbini published in the Italian city of Pesaro in 1601. The book provided a history of the Slavic peoples. The historical context of the work is the Long Turkish War ...

. It serves to support many other works. From 1667 dates the first independent Bulgarian history of

Petar Bogdan Petar Bogdan Bakshev or Petar Bogdan ( bg, Петър Богдан Бакшев); (Chiprovtsi, Ottoman Empire, 1601 – 1674) was an archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Bulgaria, historian and a key Bulgarian National Revival figure. Pet ...

, which is entitled „About the antiquity of the father land and the Bulgarian affairs". It is debatable whether it was printed in Venice at all, but this story remains without any social significance. The author is Bulgarian but a

Catholic missionary Missionary work of the Catholic Church has often been undertaken outside the geographically defined parishes and dioceses by religious orders who have people and material resources to spare, and some of which specialized in missions. Eventually, p ...

.Петър Богдан Бакшев – човекът, който посвети живота си на българския народ.
/ref> It was not until the next 18th century when with the

Enlightenment Enlightenment or enlighten may refer to: Age of Enlightenment * Age of Enlightenment, period in Western intellectual history from the late 17th to late 18th century, centered in France but also encompassing (alphabetically by country or culture): ...

and the

rise of nationalism in Europe The rise of nationalism in Europe was spurred by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. American political science professor Leon Baradat has argued that “nationalism calls on people to identify with the interests of their national group ...

was composed the so-called „ Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya", which played a huge role and was of fundamental importance for Bulgarian historiography. Bulgarian historiography on a scientific basis was placed only in the 19th century before the liberation of Bulgaria. The main credit for this is due to two authors –

Spiridon Palauzov Spiridon Palauzov (Спиридон Палаузов; July 16, 1818 in Odessa – August 17, 1872 in Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian historian of Bulgarian descent who studied the medieval and modern history of Bulgaria, Romania, the Cz ...

with his „Century of the Bulgarian Tsar Simeon", ie. The

Golden Age of medieval Bulgarian culture The Golden Age of Bulgaria is the period of the Bulgarian cultural prosperity during the reign of emperor Simeon I the Great (889—927).Kiril Petkiv, The Voices of Medieval Bulgaria, Seventh-Fifteenth Century: The Records of a Bygone Culture' ...

(1852) and Konstantin Jireček with his „History of the Bulgarians" (1876).

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* Dimitrov, Georgi. "Bulgarian Society at the Turn of the 21st Century–a Cognitive Challenge: 30 Years after the Collapse of Communism." ''Southeastern Europe'' 44.2 (2020): 105–129
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* Elenkov, Ivan, and Daniela Koleva. "Historiography in Bulgaria After the Fall of Communism: Did 'The Change' Happen?." ''Historein'' 4 (2003): 183–198 online. * Genchev, Nikolay. "The Quest for Identity" ''East Europe''. (1967) 16#1 pp 20–22. * Millman, Richard. "The Bulgarian massacres reconsidered." ''Slavonic and East European Review'' 58.2 (1980): 218–231
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* Riis, Carsten. ''Religion, politics, and historiography in Bulgaria'' (Columbia Univ. Press, 2002). * Whitehead, Cameron Ean Alfred. "The Bulgarian Horrors: culture and the international history of the Great Eastern Crisis, 1876–1878" (PhD Diss. University of British Columbia, 2014) online. Historiography of Bulgaria

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