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Page 1: IDENTITY, NATIONALISM AND CULTURAL
Page 5 and 6: A striking example of a Pomak tradi
Page 7 and 8: esearch. They served as my gracious
Page 9 and 10: 2. The Pokrastvane ................
Page 11 and 12: Salih Aga and His Time ............
Page 13 and 14: LIST OF TABLES Table 3-1. Number of
Page 15 and 16: 5-12: Bride Kadrie Kadieva ........
Page 17 and 18: FOREWORD The collapse of the mediev
Page 19 and 20: (religious leadership) was still su
Page 21 and 22: in the heart of Balkan Turkey. Thus
Page 23 and 24: agreement. This uncertain and compl
Page 25 and 26: CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION: CONTESTED I
Page 27 and 28: contested, threatened heritage. By
Page 29 and 30: anchors of memory (authentication);
Page 31 and 32: - these Melungeon activists have el
Page 33 and 34: and continuously (re)imagined as an
Page 35 and 36: numerous Pomaks who suffered politi
Page 37 and 38: The chapter argues that the life st
Page 39 and 40: CHAPTER II NATIONALISM OF COERSION:
Page 41 and 42: (such as John Locke) held the right
Page 43 and 44: fulfillment of a national state of
Page 45 and 46: that while the concept of nation-st
Page 47 and 48: crucial period, when the nascent Bu
Page 49 and 50: a cultural image of their own becau
Page 51 and 52: subject of rather emotional interpr
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after the Balkan Wars. Complicit wi
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Serbs did not consider themselves t
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priest, and teachers who were part
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1912 and September 1913, the advanc
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[T]he Pomak population continues to
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in the Rhodopes, Thrace, and Macedo
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Pomak dignitaries from neighboring
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Ultimately, the Christianization of
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Figure 2-3: Pokrastvane in the vill
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2.1. The Killings in Oral History C
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he dealt a kick to the face of the
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Figure 2-6: A commemorative marble
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themselves out of the ditch and to
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Christians of Slavic (Bulgarian) de
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entering the village, the Serbian a
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emember where you lived?’ ‘I do
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her family, but all she remembered
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however, spared Mustafa Barutev’s
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To obtain release, Muslim POWs peti
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convert if “their sons, husbands,
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Further, a protocol of the Holy Syn
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civilian aides carried out the pokr
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evoked and relieved of their duties
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groups; and the more closely affili
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The revival process was the last fo
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this distinctiveness alone was goin
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Pre-communist Bulgaria was a turbul
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Apparently, the government first en
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The communist leadership’s last f
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shrewd leadership of the communist
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conceivable document. Those lacking
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assumed purpose of the question or
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one. In other words, more members o
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culture.” 41 That is why culture
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political and national unit. During
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concealed, negative attitude of the
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group, nor sufficiently different a
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only pushes the national sentiment
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equired by law to look after the in
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was overwhelmingly peasant. There w
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party’s stance about Organization
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Last night we organized groups with
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women /mostly old ones/ still stick
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for me]. I believe that every citiz
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‣ to persuade the Pomaks of an an
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mock court trials to frighten the w
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Ninth, whereas Pomaks who resisted
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and in most Pomak villages, the com
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a fierce resistance to the revival
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Kornitsa on an impromptu stretcher
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nobody rename us.” This tense sta
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However, the majority of Pomak stud
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If the letter is authentic, it posi
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ethnic Turks of 1984-1985 created a
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When Zhivkov promised to let all Mu
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and respect for the religious belie
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training Janissaries” and sending
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Potentially, people’s realization
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I met Ramadan in May 2007 while in
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anguish of one man’s life. He sto
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forced to formally renounce their I
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having witnessed the pre-communist
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As a member of the communist party,
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ain. 18 It was a group of these ref
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Whereas most ordinary people, espec
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in the factory and they are getting
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a different story to tell. “They
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eaten into signing declaration to c
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slept in shifts: while some slept,
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seemed to me like—a whole crowd -
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prisoners in Stara Zagora (a city i
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containers. They had not found anyt
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calling: “Get me out! Get me out
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emembered the last forced conversio
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Conclusion The last decade of commu
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group of 170 people collectively de
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on the farm, served largely by blac
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etween the wedding traditions of Ri
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Rhodopes, barely an hour away from
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I returned to Ribnovo in early 2009
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When bTV, a leading television medi
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keeping with age-old traditions whe
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the form of food, money, and variou
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While wearing the make-up, she keep
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interpret the elaborate “veiling
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Pomak traditions were altogether di
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Figure 5-16: Wedding Figure of 5-0-
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As the above oral and photographic
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Figure 5-26: Veiling the bride - St
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Like the mask and bridal attire, th
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Figure 5-31: Cheiz III Refrigerator
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✔Communal feasting is a vital com
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observable in Delta Wedding, howeve
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The authors contend that all humans
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Indeed, the passage from one stage
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wedding rite. This is clearly indic
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As documentary producers, journalis
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freedom. Of course, there never was
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wedding provides them with an oppor
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Mountains. What the people of Ribno
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The fundamental unifying characteri
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just awakening to the process of sh
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Muslim population of the Rhodopes,
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size of this one and destroyed in 1
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Whereas his rather independent rule
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into ashes, took property, women an
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Figure 6-3: The Smolyan Waterfall,
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early as the 1890s. Unfortunately,
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The works of Dechov, Haytov, and Ma
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site is occupied by the old army co
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Salih’s Family Tree Salih Aga was
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Raykovo [now a Smolyan’s suburb]
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Figure 6-8: Inscribed metal dish A
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ut in the konak only my wife’s or
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One day, Sofa, who took care of Adj
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horse and rider collapsed into the
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Atanass P. Raychev from Paşmaklı
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Figure 6-11: Scene II Scene from th
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Figure 6-13: Scene IV Krum Savov’
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them good. ... Listen, all! While m
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Figure 6-16: An arched bridge leadi
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The news has arrived from the Great
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poor Christian and Muslim peasantry
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“After the death of Salih Aga,”
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of furthering the Rhodopean cultura
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when young Mehmed was conducting hi
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Indeed, as my father had said, the
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ecause their exoticism is more like
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do in a politically charged reality
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Beyond fulfilling academic obligati
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traitorous to a national identity o
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Appendix 2.2: Report of Pazardjik a
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Appendix 2.3: Excerpts from the Car
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Appendix 3.1: Broken Tombstones Mus
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Appendix 3.2A: Applications for emi
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Appendix 3.2C: Statistics on Pomak
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Chart 3.3.2b 11 Villages and hamlet
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Mopeds 5 2 3 - Houses 427 4 6 8 Fur
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Appendix 6.1: Ballad about the kill
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Appendix 6.2 1 : Salih Aga’s Seal
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Hayes, Carlton J. H. The Historical
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Lekov, Daniel. “Lovets na migove:
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