Eric D. Halsey 3 days ago 4 min 124 Time of The Cheti After years of writing, planning, and organizing, it's finally time for Georgi Rakovski to send bands of cheti into Bulgaria to begin sti...
Eric D. Halsey 4 days ago 3 min 123 Alliances, Confederations, and Empires As Bulgarian revolutionaries prepare for greater action against the Ottomans, the Austro-Prussian War sends Europe into a tailspin, remak...
Eric D. Halsey Sep 24 2 min 122 The "Model" Vilayet As Midhat Pasha takes over the newly formed Danube Vilayet intent on modernizing and transforming it into a model for the Empire, far off...
Eric D. Halsey Sep 24 1 min 121 Travel in 19th Century Bulgaria This special episode is based on Marco Sholler's new book “This Unknown Land, how Geographers, Pharmacists, Novelists, Plant Hunters, War...
Eric D. Halsey Aug 31 4 min 120 Drawing Lines As Russia tries to position itself to set up a final agreement between advocates for an independent Bulgarian church and the Patriarchate...
Eric D. Halsey Aug 27 5 min 119 Mutually Assured Excommunication As the battle between supporters of an independent Bulgarian church and the Patriarchate heats up, the Uniate church becomes an even bigg...
Eric D. Halsey Jul 24 3 min 118 Balkan Smoke and Unifications Tobacco and coffeehouses are growing in importance as markers of social status and places to plan political change. Meanwhile, two new co...
Eric D. Halsey Jul 24 3 min 117 Soft Power Following Russia's defeat in the Crimean War, it's forced to change its geopolitical strategy in the Balkans. Shut out of the ability to ...
Eric D. Halsey Jun 29 1 min 116 In the European Style As the Crimean War draws to a close, nothing much is changing and yet everything is changing. The war has helped bring even more European...
Eric D. Halsey Jun 8 3 min 115 The Crimean War With the outbreak of the Crimean War, Bulgarians rush to see how they can aid the Russian cause and appeal to the Tsar for assistance aga...
