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''Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya'' ( Original Cyrillic: Истори́ѧ славѣноболгарскаѧ corrected from Їстори́ѧ славѣноболгарскаѧ; ) is a book by Bulgarian scholar and clergyman Saint Paisius of Hilendar. Written in 1762, it is considered Saint Paisius of Hilendar's greatest work and one of the most influential pieces of the
Bulgarian revival The Bulgarian National Revival ( bg, Българско национално възраждане, ''Balgarsko natsionalno vazrazhdane'' or simply: Възраждане, ''Vazrazhdane'', and tr, Bulgar ulus canlanması) sometimes called the Bu ...
, as well as the first work of Bulgarian historiography. Although he was based in the Serbian monastery
Hilandar The Hilandar Monastery ( sr-cyr, Манастир Хиландар, Manastir Hilandar, , el, Μονή Χιλανδαρίου) is one of the twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Mount Athos in Greece and the only Serbian monastery there. It wa ...
, which was inhabited then mostly by Bulgarian monks, Paisius travelled extensively throughout the country and abroad and collected a vast amount of references to compile and write his concise but historically influential version of Bulgarian history. At that time the influx of Serbian monks decreased at the expense of Bulgarians, particularly from Macedonia. From the 17th to the 19th century, Hilandar was predominantly Bulgarian-populated.


History

The book's first manual copy was done by Sophronius of Vratsa in 1765. Structurally, ''Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya'' consists of two introductions, several chapters that discuss various historic events, a chapter about the "Slavic teachers", the disciples of
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, a chapter about the Bulgarian saints, and an epilogue. Although some excerpts appeared in Petar Beron's ''Tsarstvenik'' of 1844, Paisii's ''History'' was not published in book form until the 1920s, in the edition of Nikola Filipov. There was an adaptation into modern Bulgarian in 1938. Critical editions were prepared in the 1960s, and a Russian translation. A German translation appeared in 1984, and an English version of the Zograph manuscript in 2001. The first printed edition of the full original text was prepared by Yordan Ivanov and published in 1914 by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Until 1984, the manuscript was stored at the Bulgarian
Zograf Monastery The Saint George the Zograf Monastery or Zograf Monastery ( bg, Зографски манастир; el, Μονή Ζωγράφου, ''Moní Zográphou'') is one of the twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Mount Athos (the "Holy Mountain") in ...
in Mount Athos, Greece. During the last years of the
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, the Bulgarian Committee for State Security replaced the manuscript with a copy and transferred the original in Bulgaria. In 1998, President
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returned it to the
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, and in the meantime in 1998 and 2000 the Sofia University Publishing House produced two photo typical editions of Slavic-Bulgarian History, accompanied by translations into modern Bulgarian and English respectively. The
Zografou Zografou ( el, Ζωγράφου) is a suburb of approximately 71,000 in the eastern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. It was named after the Greek politician Ioannis Zografos. To the east of Zografou lies mount Hymettus. The area, being ...
draft of the ''Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya'' is depicted on the
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Significance

The importance of this manuscript is that it contributed to the formation of the Bulgarian national identity. What would follow is known as the
Bulgarian National Revival The Bulgarian National Revival ( bg, Българско национално възраждане, ''Balgarsko natsionalno vazrazhdane'' or simply: Възраждане, ''Vazrazhdane'', and tr, Bulgar ulus canlanması) sometimes called the Bu ...
, in which ''Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya'' played a significant role.


References


External links

* :File:Paisii Hilendarski Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya red Y Ivanov BAN 1914.pdf, Full original text of "История славянобългарска" including commentary, bibliography, and a biographical note about the author by Yordan Ivanov, published in 1914 by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (in Bulgarian)
Excerpts from ''Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya'' in modern Bulgarian

L’Histoire slavo-bulgare de Paisij de Hilendar. Traduction et commentaire
French translation and commentary by Athanase Popov. INALCO, 2004-2005. (retrieved on 24 July 2009). {{Authority control