JHAR 2025/2–3

Contents

G. Kovachev. Regarding the Donkeys, the Baskets and the Capturing of Fortresses. A Stratagem Reflected in the Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

N. Sirakov. Secret Aristocratic Societies in Ancient Thrace According to Archaeological Finds from the Sliven Region

M. Bonkina. The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca and the Bulgarian Historiography

T. Kovács. An Independent Ukraine? Additional Considerations to the Issue of Ukraine’s Independence After World War I (Based on the Official Documents of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

D. Sandevа. Satellite Eyes and Human Steps: Mapping Archaeological Remains on the Ludogorsko Plateau without Excavation

P. Peev. Mediaeval and Post Mediaeval Small-Scale Fishing along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

G. Stoimenov. The Bulgarian Development of the Auxiliary Historical Science of Genealogy

K. Krastanova. The Carpet – Blessings for Weekdays and Holidays (Dora Kurshumova. Stories Woven into Kotlen Carpets. Sliven, 2024, 224 pp., with coloured illustrations)

List of Authors