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HISTORICAL YEARBOOK

VOLUME XXIII, 2026

Contents

Monarchy in the Balkans through the Centuries

JOINT HISTORY COMMISSION OF THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY AND THE BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, CONSTANȚA, 27 JUNE 2025 7
Ivaylo NAYDENOV, SVISHTOV MERCHANT ENTREPRENEURS AND THEIR NETWORKS ACROSS WALLACHIA AND MOLDAVIA (ROMANIA) DURING THE 19TH CENTURY

https://www.doi.org/10.61801/HY.2026.01

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Ivaylo NACHEV, “OUR CAPITAL’S IMPROVEMENT”: THE ROLE OF PRINCE ALEXANDER I IN BUILDING SOFIA AS A CAPITAL CITY OF BULGARIA

https://www.doi.org/10.61801/HY.2026.02

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Dobrinka PARUSHEVA, IS IT SAFE TO MOCK THE KING? FERDINAND I OF BULGARIA CARICATURED

https://www.doi.org/10.61801/HY.2026.03

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Roumiana PRESHLENOVA, THE PEOPLE AGAINST THE DUAL MONARCHY DURING THE ANNEXATION CRISIS OF 1908–1909/1911

https://www.doi.org/10.61801/HY.2026.04

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Constantin ARDELEANU, THE ROMANIAN ROYAL FAMILY’S CRUISES ALONG THE DANUBE (1902–1914)

https://www.doi.org/10.61801/HY.2026.05

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Metin OMER, FROM “MILLET-I HÂKIME” TO ROMANIAN CITIZENS: THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN DOBRUJA AND THE RELATION WITH THE ROMANIAN ROYAL FAMILY

https://www.doi.org/10.61801/HY.2026.06

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Daniel CITIRIGĂ, THRONES – BETWEEN DIPLOMATIC STRATEGIES AND POLITICAL INTERESTS. ROMANIAN–BULGARIAN PROJECTS OF DYNASTIC MARRIAGE, 1921–1926

https://www.doi.org/10.61801/HY.2026.07

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Florin ANGHEL, THE LAST VISIT OF A BULGARIAN SOVEREIGN TO ROMANIA. TSAR BORIS III, TO BUCHAREST AND SINAIA (JANUARY 1934), IN ROMANIAN PUBLIC PERCEPTION

https://www.doi.org/10.61801/HY.2026.08

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Marian KARAGYOZOV, THE UNEVEN PATH OF SECULARIZATION: THE CASES OF THREE BALKAN SOCIETIES (BULGARIA, ROMANIA, AND TÜRKIYE)

https://www.doi.org/10.61801/HY.2026.09

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Aneta MIHAYLOVA, THE LEGACY OF THE MONARCHY IN POST-COMMUNIST BULGARIA

https://www.doi.org/10.61801/HY.2026.10

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Daniel CAIN, A ROYAL VISIT: KING CAROL I TO PLEVNA (1902)

https://www.doi.org/10.61801/HY.2026.11

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Emanuel PLOPEANU, BULGARIA IN THE FIRST DECADE OF THE COMMUNIST REGIME. A REPORT OF THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE OF THE US SENATE (1953)

https://www.doi.org/10.61801/HY.2026.12

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Varia

Vojislav SARAKINSKI, TIMBER, NAVAL POWER, AND ASYMMETRIC DEPENDENCE: ATHENS AND MACEDON

https://www.doi.org/10.61801/HY.2026.13

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Ivelin IVANOV, ON LIVONIA AND LATIN ROMANIA IN THE FIRST DECADES OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

https://www.doi.org/10.61801/HY.2026.14

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Taras VINTSKOVSKYI, Andrii IVANCHENKO, THE “BESSARABIAN QUESTION” OF 1918 IN THE MEDIA DISCOURSE OF ODESA AT THE TIMES OF UKRAINSKA DERZHAVA (BASED ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE NEWSPAPER “VILNE ZHYTTIA”)

https://www.doi.org/10.61801/HY.2026.15

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Dumitru LISNIC, REPENTANT TSARS AND SACRED NARRATIVES: MONARCHIST COSMOLOGY IN INOCHENTIST HAGIOGRAPHIES AFTER THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF 1917

https://www.doi.org/10.61801/HY.2026.16

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Georgiana ȚĂRANU, TO WORSHIP GOD OR MUSSOLINI? A CASE STUDY ON THE POST-LATERAN RIVALRY BETWEEN FASCIST ITALY AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN 1930 BUCHAREST

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Adrian-Alexandru HERȚA, PERSPECTIVES ON THE ROMANIAN ELECTORAL SYSTEM OF 1918-1919: A CRITICAL OVERVIEW OF A RECURRENT PROBLEM

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Gabriel Stelian MANEA, DISINFORMATION AND ECCLESIASTICAL INFILTRATION. THE LONDON RESIDENCY OF THE SECURITATE AGAINST RICHARD WURMBRAND'S PROPAGANDA (1967–1969)

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REVIEW

Henryk Walczak, Constantin Vișoianu jako poseł nadzwyczajny i minister pełnomocny Królestwa Rumunii w Polsce (1 październik 1935- 5 listopad 1936). Studium z dziejów relacji dyplomatycznych Warszawa-Bukareszt, Wydawnictwo Chromcon, Wrocław, 2025, 123 pp. Florin ANGHEL 291
Constantin Ardeleanu, Un drum de fier prin „Estul Sălbatic”: Dobrogea otomană în zorii capitalismului, Humanitas, București, 2025, 404 p. Metin OMER 295
Dennis Deletant, România sub comunism. Paradox și degenerare, București, Ed. Humanitas, 2025, 630 pp. Gabriel Stelian MANEA 301
Florin Müller, Statul Național-Legionar (septembrie 1940 – ianuarie 1941), Editura Corint, București, 2025, 491 p. Emanuel PLOPEANU 309
Contributors 313