Bozhidar Dimitrov

Bozhidar Dimitrov Stoyanov (also Bozhidar Dimitrov Stoyanov transliterated, Bulgarian Божидар Димитров Стоянов; born December 3, 1945 in Sozopol ) is a Bulgarian historian and politician. He is director of the National Historical Museum in Sofia. He was a member of the Bulgarian Parliament before he was Minister without Portfolio from 2009 to 2011.

Family

Bozhidar Dimitrov was born in the Black Sea town of Sozopol in a refugee family. His family is from the present-day Turkish Eastern Thrace and belongs to the Thracian Bulgarians, who had to leave the area after the Treaty of Sèvres, Neuilly -sur -Seine and Lausanne and after the Balkan and World Wars.

Bozhidar Dimitrov got married at the age of 33 years, eight years younger actress Marta Kantschewa, divorced her and married later again. The couple has a daughter.

Career

Bozhidar Dimitrov studied from 1970 to 1974 at the University of Sofia History and Archaeology. 1974 to 1975 he studied at the Institute of Palaeography in Paris, from 1977 to 1978 at the Vatican School of Paleography and diplomatics. 1978 to 1999 and again since December 2001 he has been director of the National History Museum. In the period from 1999 to 2001 he worked as a journalist in Burgas and Sofia.

Bozhidar Dimitrov took part in the 15th Congress of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines in 1976 in Athens this.

Since 2002 he has headed the historical mission Pamet Bǎlgarska ( Памет българска ) in the Bulgarian National Television.

Until June 11, 2009 Dimitrov was a member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, which he left in protest against the coalition with the DPS. He then joined the party GERB over and was their candidate in the coastal province of Burgas in the list for the parliamentary elections in 2009. Doing so, he was elected to Parliament and could be the leader of the nationalist party Attaka Volen Siderov behind.

After the election, which was won by the GERB party, Bozhidar Dimitrov was sworn in charge on July 27, 2009 in the government of Boyko Borisov as Minister without Portfolio and for the Bulgarians abroad.

In 2010 it was announced that a large part of the Bulgarian ambassadors and consuls employees of the former Communist State Security ( see # Bulgaria 's foreign policy ) were. In this context and because of the willingness of the Prime Minister Borisov and Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov to part of such employees, Dimitrov resigned as minister. His successor as Minister for Bulgarians abroad was Rosen Ivanov. Bozhidar Dimitrov returned to his work at the National History Museum.

His resignation as minister was confirmed on 4 February 2011 in the Bulgarian Parliament

Bozhidar Dimitrov tells in an interview for the newspaper Retro, he had felt that his work as a minister has been done by some neighboring countries as well as by major EU countries, resistance and refers to articles in the newspapers Le Figaro, The World, The Daily Mail concerning the Bulgarian nationality. His dismissal was due to foreign pressure. The newspapers mentioned so Dimitrov, the numbers twisted: whereas in fact 15,000 people acquired Bulgarian citizenship in 2010, the newspapers had reported over 80,000 people. After his resignation Bozhidar Dimitrov is also not deputy in the Bulgarian Parliament more.

Bozhidar Dimitrov is a former employee of the Bulgarian Communist State Security. There he worked for reconnaissance and for spying.

Politics

According to Bozhidar Dimitrov Serbs and Croats are practically a people who speak the same language - Serbo-Croatian.

According to him, today live in Macedonia, only Bulgarians ( according to the assertion of a spectator that have only lived Bulgarians during the Bulgarian National Revival in Macedonia ), even if today's Bulgarians call themselves different, and to some extent ( " unfortunately largely " ) of a "brainwashing" had been subjected.

Publications (selection)

Bozhidar Dimitrov is the author of more than 20 monographs.

  • With Aksinija D. Džurova: Slavjanski răkopisi, dokumenti i karti za bălgarskata istorija ot Vatikanskata Apostoličeska Biblioteka i Sekretnija Archive na Vatikana [ IX - XVII vek ]. Izdatelstvo Nauka i Izkustvo, Sofia, 1978 ( Translation of title:. Slavic manuscripts, documents and maps Bulgarian history from the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana and the Secret Archives of the Vatican (9th - 17th century ) ).
  • Bulgaria Illustrated History. Sofia 1994, ISBN 954-500-091-0 (2nd edition 2002).
  • The Bulgarians. Propagator of civilization in the world of the Slavs., Borina, Sofia 1994. ISBN 954-500-038-4
  • Християнството в българските земи. Български манастири (from the Bulg Christianity in the Bulgarian lands. Bulgarian monasteries, 2001)
  • Българите и Александър Македонски (from the Bulg: The Bulgarians and Alexander the Great, 2001)
  • Българите - първите европейци (from the Bulg: The Bulgarians - the first Europeans to 2002)
  • България и Папството (from the Bulg: Bulgaria and the Popes, 2002)
  • Аполония Понтика. Един гръцки полис на брега на Черно море. 611-72 г. пр. . Хр / (from the Bulg: Apollonia Pontika A Greek polis on the coast of the Black Sea 611-72 BC.. . ) Publisher Sw. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, 2004. ISBN 954-07-1955-0
  • Седемте древни цивилизации в България (from the Bulg: The seven ancient civilizations of Bulgaria, 2005)
  • Войните на България за национално обединение (from the Bulg: The struggles of Bulgaria for the National Association, 2006)
  • Светослав Тертер. Цар на българите (1300-1321) (from the Bulg: Svetoslav Tartar Tsar of the Bulgarians ( 1300-1321 ), 2006. )
  • 10 - те лъжи на македонизма (from the Bulg: The Ten Lies of Macedonianism, 2006)
  • Десетте лаги на македонизмот, publishing Blaze Konevski, Strumica (2006).
  • 12 мита в българската история (from the Bulg: The Twelve Myths in the Bulgarian history, 2007)
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