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Some observations on the administrative terminology of the second Bulgarian empire (13th-14th centuries)*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Ivan Biliarsky
Ivan Biliarsky*
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St. Andrews, Scotland
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Abstract

The paper presents some aspects of the juridical terminology in the Second Bulgarian Empire: the appellations of the titles of the hierarchical system and those of the administrative services. The use of the statistical methods offers some impressive results in regard to the correlation between the terms of Byzantine origin (translated or transliterated from Greek) and those that derive from Bulgar language, either purely Slavonic terms or ones of other derivation. About three quarters of the terminology derives from the juridical language of the Eastern Roman Empire! These results might be supported by the observations on the fiscal terms, the appellations of the territorial units and so on. Needless to say that these results are not unexpected — they confirm again the affiliation of the mediaeval Bulgaria to the East Roman or byzantine civilisation.

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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , Volume 25 , 2001 , pp. 69 - 89
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Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 2001

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I completed this article at the University of St. Andrews/Scotland during my tenure of a fellowship granted by Royal Society of Edinburgh/Caledonian Research Foundation.

To the memory of N. Oikonomidès

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35. The main data on the kephaliai derive from the Virginska and Vitoša charters and from the inscription of Bozhenitsa — Biliarsky, Iv., ‘Sluzhbata na kephaliite po vreme na Vtoroto bulgarsko carstvo’, Târnovska knizhovna shkola, 5 (1994) 553–562 Google Scholar; Biliarsky, Institutiite na srednovekovna Bulgaria, 286-292.

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41. This service is known from the texts of the Rila and Vitoša charters — Il’inskij, , Gramoty bolgarskih carej, 27 (54)Google Scholar, 29 (9); Dujčev, , Rilskata gramola, 52 (54)Google Scholar; Biliarsky, Institutiite na srednovekovna Bulgaria, 314-317.

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44. See the texts of the Rila and Vitoša charters — Il’inskij, , Gramoty bolgarskih carej, 27 (54)Google Scholar, 29 (9); Dujčev, , Rilskata gramota, 52 (54)Google Scholar; Biliarsky, Institutiite na srednovekovna Bulgaria, 355-357.

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68. We know this service from the text of the Rila and Vitoša charters — Il’inskij, , Gramoty bolgarskih carej, 27 (54)Google Scholar, 29 (9); Dujčev, , Rilskata gramota, 52 (54)Google Scholar; Biliarsky, Institutiite na srednovekovna Bulgaria, 361-364 with the cited previous literature. Thus I would like to ameliorate my text (cited above) on this institution.

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79. Cited in the Virginska, Mračka, Rila and Vitoša charters — Il’inskij, , Gramoty bolgarskih carej, 18 (99)Google Scholar, 19 (101-102), 25 (29), 27 (53-54); Dujčev, , Rilskata gramola, 53 (53–54)Google Scholar; Andreev, , Vatopedskata gramota, 193 (9–10)Google Scholar; Oikonomidès, , Fiscalité et exemption fiscale, 99, 103 Google Scholar; Biliarsky, Institutiite na srednovekovna Bulgaria, 364-366.

80. Cited in the Rila and Vitoša charters — Il’inskij, , Gramoty bolgarskih carej, 27 (56)Google Scholar, 29 (12); Dujčev, , Rilskata gramota, s. 52 (56), 65 Google Scholar; Biliarsky, Institutiite na srednovekovna Bulgaria, 366-368.

81. Cited in the Mračka and Rila charters — Il’inskij, , Gramoty bolgarskih carej, 25 (30)Google Scholar, 27 (57); Dujčev, , Rilskata gramota, 52 (57)Google Scholar; Biliarsky, Institutiite na srednovekovna Bulgaria, 368-370.

82. Cited in the Mračka and Rila charters — Il’inskij, , Gramoty bolgarskih carej, 25 (29)Google Scholar, 27 (57); Dujčev, , Rilskata gramota, 52 (57)Google Scholar; Biliarsky, Institutiite na srednovekovna Bulgaria, 382.

83. Cited only in the Rila charter — Il’inskij, , Gramoty bolgarskih carej, 27 (57)Google Scholar; Dujčev, , Rilskata gramota, 52 (57)Google Scholar; Biliarsky, ‘Trois institutions méconnues …’, 98 sq.; idem, Institutiite na srednovekovna Bulgaria, 383-384.

84. Cited only in the Mračka charter — Il’inskij, , Gramoty bolgarskih carej, 25 (29)Google Scholar; Biliarsky, ‘Trois institutions méconnues …’, 102-103; idem, Institutiite na srednovekovna Bulgaria, 384-385.

85. Cited only in the Rila charter — Il’inskij, , Gramoty bolgarskih carej, 27 (57)Google Scholar; Dujčev, , Rilskata gramota, 52 (57)Google Scholar; Biliarsky, Institutiite na srednovekovna Bulgaria, 392-393.

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