Duration of the project: 2019–2023
Financing organization: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Head of the project: Assoc. Prof. Ventsislav Muchinov, PhD
Abstract: The project studies the main directions and specifics in the development of urbanization in the Bulgarian lands under Ottoman rule during the period from the beginning of the 19th century to the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878. Despite the importance of this process for the demographic, socio-economic and cultural development of the population in the Bulgarian lands during the Revival, there is no comprehensive study of the problem in Bulgarian and foreign historiography. For the detailed study of the subject, the project involves searching, processing and analyzing a variety of source material of Ottoman Turkish, Bulgarian, Greek, Russian, Western European, etc. origin. The project analyzes the impact of reforms in
the Ottoman Empire during the Tanzimat era on urbanization in the Bulgarian lands under Ottoman rule. Special attention is devoted to the study of the urbanization policy of the Ottoman authorities – the measures for the modernization and development of the cities in the Bulgarian lands and the policy to increase the number of cities and to form new urban centers in the provinces of the Ottoman Empire populated by Bulgarians.