Numer 4

Contents

The Early Relations between the Ottoman State and the Orthodox Church: An Instance of "Istimâlet"

Raymond Detrez

Inventing a War. In Search of the Concept of the Last Austro-Turkish War over the Balkans (1788–1791)

Yevhen Horb

The Attitude of Bosnian Muslims Toward the Ottoman Empire in the Years 1850–1914

Tomasz Jacek Lis

“The First Foretaste of the True East” – A Polish Reporter in Post-Ottoman Ruse

Kamen Rikev

A Study on the Sociocultural Life of the Balkan Peoples as Depicted in Mary Adelaide Walker’s Travel Book "Through Macedonia to the Albanian Lakes"

Seda Ağırbaş

The Great Eastern Crisis (1875−1885) as a Balkan Historical Milestone (A Case Study of Article XXIII of the Berlin Treaty)

Maria Pandevska

Turkish Borrowings in Bulgarian Lexis Related to Cuisine and Cooking

Mariola Walczak-Mikołajczakowa