Public lecture on "The 19th century treaties that burped Bulgaria"

On 29 February, Thursday, at 18:00, in the Conference Hall of the Regional Library "P. К. The public lecture "The Treaties of the 19th Century, which burped Bulgaria" will be held at the Library of the Regional Library of the Bulgarian Branch of the Regional Library of the Bulgarian Republic. The guest-lecturer will be Prof. Dr. Petko Petkov from the University of Veliko Tarnovo "Sv. Prof. Petkov will be the keynote speaker. The event is organized by Burgas Municipality and Regional Historical Museum - Burgas on the occasion of March 3 - the National Day of the Republic of Bulgaria.
In the present lecture the historian's view is focused on the problem of the fate of the Ottoman heritage in the lands recognized as Bulgarian - how the so-called "Great Powers" project their interests and through the bilateral and multilateral agreements concluded between them dictate, change and direct the future of the Bulgarians.
With regard to some of the most important treaties and international agreements, even in today's informed, but also consciously misinformed society, there is a clear tendency to present them inaccurately and manipulatively for various reasons and by propagandists with various goals.
The chronological scope of the subject is deliberately locked mainly in the 19th century, when the most significant changes took place in connection with the Liberation and the establishment of an independent Bulgarian state. In this case, it can be presented as a series of historical jargons marking a complex and controversial path that conventionally follows the places and years of the important international agreements referred to in the lecture: Küçük Kaınardja 1774 - Bucharest 1812 - Adrianople 1829 - Unkyar-Iskelçesi 1833 - Paris 1856 - London 1871 - Constantinople 1876 - Adrianople/San Stefano/Berlin 1878 - Tophane 1886 - Mürzshteg 1903 - Constantinople 1909 - London 1913 - Bucharest 1913 - Neuilly 1919.
The main focus is on the treaties and agreements concluded immediately before and shortly after the Bulgarian Liberation 1876-1879.
The aim is not to offer and impose a singularly correct opinion; in free societies no one has such a monopoly, except in highly ideologized or totalitarian states. It is an attempt to present in an argued manner and on the basis of long known, but also unknown or concealed facts and circumstances, the attitude of the so-called "Great Powers" and to show that they indeed appeared to a considerable extent as the guides of the peoples inhabiting the Ottoman Empire, forming their own national liberation movements and struggling for their own statehood during the long 19th century.
Prof. Dr. Petko St. Petkov is a long-time lecturer at the Faculty of History of the University of Veliko Tarnovo. He is a professor at the University of St. Cyril and Methodius. He is the author of monographs, studies and articles, textbooks and teaching aids on the modern history of Bulgaria. He is a scientific consultant for several films with historical themes. He is a member of the Board of the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria and Chairman of its Veliko Tarnovo branch. His research interests are in the field of Bulgarian history from the early 18th to the mid-20th century: the development of the Bulgarian national question and the paths to liberation, the history of Bulgarian constitutionalism, the programs of national liberation and the ideas of state structure and governance in Bulgarian society, the relations between the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the state power in the 19th-20th centuries, Bulgarian political mores in the 19th-20th centuries, official holidays in Bulgaria, Bulgarian cultural and historical heritage.

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