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Would-be Settlement from Upper Silesia in Northern Bulgaria in 1882

Publication date: 21.11.2024

Central European and Balkan Studies, 2024, Volume XXXIII, pp. 241 - 256

https://doi.org/10.4467/2543733XSSB.24.013.20037

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Krzysztof Popek
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5864-5264 Orcid
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Would-be Settlement from Upper Silesia in Northern Bulgaria in 1882

Abstract

The aim of the article is to present the fate of the would-be settlement of Poles from the Koźle county to the district of Svishtov in northern Bulgaria in 1882, based on the Ministry of Finances materials found in in the Central State Archives in Sofia. As a result of the information provided by the missionary Grzegorz Piegza operating in the area of Svishtov, about 150 families from Upper Silesia expressed their willingness to move to the Balkans and live among the Catholic communities functioning there. It seemed that they could take advantage of the settlement action organized by the Bulgarian authorities from 1880, which assumed the distribution of land to the newcomers. However, these petitions met with a refusal by the authorities in Sofia, who wanted to bring only Bulgarians living outside the Balkans. Petitions sent from Upper Silesia to the Bulgarian authorities in 1882 are a source of information not only on the causes of migrations from this part of Prussia, but also provide knowledge about the identity of Silesians at the end of the 19th century. The analysis also served as a starting point for reflection on Bulgarian migration policy of this period.

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Information: Central European and Balkan Studies, 2024, Volume XXXIII, pp. 241 - 256

Article type: Original article

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5864-5264

Krzysztof Popek
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5864-5264 Orcid
All publications →

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 21.11.2024

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Krzysztof Popek historian and Slavist, works at the Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He specialises in the political and social history of the Balkan Peninsula of the 19th century. Author of books: Muzułmanie w Bułgarii 18781912 [Muslims in Bulgaria] (2022), Uchodźcy, czyli goście Boga. Studia z dziejów migracji bałkańskich w XIX wieku przypadek Bułgarii i Serbii [Refugees, or guests of God. Studies in the history of Balkan migration in the 19th century the case of Bulgaria and Serbia] (with B. Rusin, 2022) and Turecka opończa, belgijska peleryna. Obraz państwa bułgarskiego w twórczości satyrycznej przełomu XIX i XX wieku [The Turkish Mantle, the Belgian Cloak. The image of the Bulgarian state in satirical works of the turn of the 19th and 20th century] (2016). Winner of PRELUDIUM 13 and OPUS 20 grants from the National Science Centre in Krakow, POWER 3.1 of the European Social Fund, Lanckorona Foundation Scholarship and Scholarships of the Polish Minister of Higher Education. A member of the Balkan History Association in Bucharest and the Balkan Studies Committee at the Poznań Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences, he collaborates as a reviewer with leading Bulgarian journals, including the Bulgarian Historical Review and Istoricheski pregled”.

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