Contents

Articles

Şebnem Parladır – The Image of Women as Depicted in Ottoman Chronicles: Women in Social Life 3

Ivan Roussev – New Source from the French Archives: Lafitte-Clavé’s 1784 Description (Memoir) of Varna and Varna Bay57

Anna Hedo, Oleh Ivaniuk – Bulgarian Colonists in Southern Ukraine: Representation in Ukrainian and Russian Periodicals (Latter Half of the 19th – Early 20th Century)81

Ivan Tepavčević – The Echoes of the Scientific and Technological Revolution in Montenegro in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries107

Nadya Filipova, Abdallah Abdel-Ati Al-Naggar – Bulgarian–Egyptian Relations during the Cold War: Political Economy, Propaganda, and Competing Narratives141

Ma Li – The Diplomatic Crisis between Bulgaria and North Korea in 1962 and China's Policy Adjustment toward Eastern Europe164

Reviews of Books

Rositsa Lelyova – The Problems of the Bulgarians from the Western Outskirts: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective189

Aneta Mihaylova – Between Autonomy and the State: Writers and Cultural Politics in Modern Bulgaria196