Mary Neuburger, “The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria (Cornell UP, 2004)
New Books in Eastern European Studies
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The Pro-Mox and the Origins of the Turkish Name
Todor Jipuk was grasping for some strand of legitimacy in a period when legitimacy was waning. Even though they have Turkish schools, those were being slowly organized. Other kind of Turkish rituals were being discouraged or outlawed over the period. And so I think for him, this was part of that. We can't put get there until we do this, until we are all, you know, European, Bulgarian, integrated, modern socialization.
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