VENETS: the Belogradchik journal for local history, cultural heritave and folk studies

261-281

Authors: S. Tsvetkova

“Homeland” is a cycle of poems dedicated to Belogradchik and the district. These poems have already been published in a recent Tzvetkova’s book “I Am Yantra” (Varna, 2012). Stefka Tsvetkova grew in a family of the teacher Tsvetko Stoyanov; her mother is also a teacher, and it is the reason for her to live and study in Belogradchik, Lom, Oreshets, Karbintsi, Varbovchets, Alexandrovo and Gyurgich. To write her poems Tsvetkova was inspired from these places and their people.

329-359

Authors: G. Simeonova

This article describes the traditional folk costume in the district of Rousse and the changes it undergoes over time. The text is illustrated with authentic photographs.

376-389

Authors: B.V. Toshev

This article revives a little known text about Belogradchik and its surroundings, written by the Bulgarian writer Stilian Chilingirov, and published in Pavel Deliradev’s book “Bulgarian Geographical Reader” (1943). In the past, Stilian Chilingorov was an eminent author and publicist, now entirely forgotten. Some data about the Belogradchik mining syndicate, presented by Joseph Kenarlekdji from London, are also presented.

400-400

Authors: B.V. Toshev (Ed.)

Artist: Krassimir Ivanov

133-136

Authors: K. Jivkova

This article contains five short poems. The author, Katrin Jivkova (10), is Bulgarian but lives in the UK. She will be in year 6 in September. From a very early age Katrin has been dreaming of becoming a writer. She has already written many short stories and these are her first attempts at writing poetry. The poems are inspired by frightening stories that are popular among children of her age and keep them awake at nights.

149-173

Authors: B.V. Toshev

Vernacular architecture is a category of architecture based on localized needs and construction materials, and reflecting local traditions. In old Belogradchik almost any family had a summer house, bigger or smaller, built in the family’s vineyard. Markashnitsa, Krupets, Bashovitsa, Orlya were the main vine regions. But there were Belogradchik’s vineyards and summer houses even outside of these popular vine areas. One of latters belonged to Matej Ignatov (1885-1957). In this paper that summer house, demolished in the autumn of 1973, is described in full details.

235-255

Authors: C. Maritsas

The paper examines the assignment of the visual experience in the context of interrelation between civilization and art. Civilization is defined as “the survival of the weak”. It is stressed that this definition can be applied to man, animal and every living being. Lie as “someone else’s truth” and art as “the process of the creation of ‘copies of the copies of nature’” are considered to be the weak man’s tools for survival. The author argues that purpose of erotic scenes and scenes of hunting (death, violence) both in the past and in the present is the excitation at the woman of desire to reproduction.

5-18

Authors: V. Borisov

Recently Veselin Borisov, a professor of social medicine in the Medical University in Sofia, who is born in the village of Skomlya, near Belogradchik, has written a new and still unpublished book: “The chef d’oevure of God: Belogradchik visions.” An excerpt from the poetry section of the book is presented. All of the rhymes chosen are inspired from the poet’s memory from his schooling in Belogradchik and for his work as a physician in the Belogradchik hospital.

69-80

Authors: B.V. Toshev

Recently a paper about the meteorite of Belogradchik has been published (Тошев, 2010а). Additional information about the meteorite of 1874 is given in the present article. Here the description of the meteorite is after Flight (1887). Safvet pasha is the official who decided to donate the meteorite in Paris.

93-111

Authors: M. Ighile

This study attempts to provide a theoretical framework for the appreciation of music among the Benin, a strategic ethnic group in Nigeria. It investigates how concepts such as folk and popular song, music, noise, speech and sound find their relevant expression and place in the socio-cultural, economic, moral and even psychological setting of the Benin world. Finally, it is discovered that a conceptual approach is crucial, not only to the situation of the Benin oral literary values within a Western ideological context, but also in the facilitation of an objective evaluation of critical aspects of the life of people.

128-128

Authors: B.V. Toshev (Ed.)

Peter Russovsky - an artist