Bulgarian-Hungarian Round Table

 

 

Bulgaria and Hungary in the Wars from the Second Decade of the 20th Century

 

 

17 May 2012, Sofia

 

 

The scholarly forum is organized within “Central and South-East Europe in the 19th–21st Centuries.

        Regions, Borders, Societies, identities” Bulgarian-Hungarian joint academic project (2009-2012)

 

Organizers

Bulgarian-Hungarian Joint Academic History Commission

Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Institute of History at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Hungarian Cultural Institute in Sofia

 

Kindly supported by the

Hungarian Embassy in Sofia

 

Moderators

Dr. Penka Peykovska

Dr. Gábor Demeter

 

 

 

Place

Sofia University, Rectorate, Meeting Hall 2

 

 

 

14:00-14:15

Îpening

 

Akad. Georgi MARKOV, Head of the Bulgarian-Hungarian Joint Academic Project, BAS

 

Prof. Imre RESS, Chairman of the Hungarian-Bulgarian Academic History Commission

 

Dr. Tosho DONCSEV, Head of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Sofia

 

 

Chair: Gábor Demeter

 

14:15-14:30

MARKOV, Georgi (Institute for Historical Studies, BAS)

The Geopolitical Military Aspects of the Balkan Wars: Bulgaria in the Balkan Alliance against the Ottoman Empire

 

14:30-14:45

RESS Imre (Institute of History, HAS)

War and Society: Mobilising the Society in the Multiethnic Hungary during World War I

 

14:45-15:00

KALCHEV, Kalcho (Veliko Tirnovo University)

The Beginning of the Bulgarian-Turkish Military Political Alliance (the (the End of 1915 – the Summer of 1916)

 

15:15-15:30

DEMETER Gábor (Institute of History, HAS)

The Reality of a Greater Bulgaria after the Preliminary Peace in London (30, May, 1913)

 

15:30-15:45

GESHEVA, Yordanka (Institute for Historical Studies, BAS)

The Historical Background of the Balkan Wars

 

15:45-16:00 

PANDULA Attila (University of Eötvös Loránd)

Medals of the Red Cross as Instruments of Mobilising the Bulgarian Society during World War I

 

16:00-16:15

KAMENOV, Peter (St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University)

Austria-Hungary and the Balkan Wars 1912-1913. The Standpoint of István Tisza’s Government

 

16:15-16:45

Discussion

 

 

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