The Bulgarian History Podcast
By Eric Halsey
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Podcast by Eric Halsey
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252 Darkness Descends
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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251 A Deal Between Devils
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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250 A Tightening Grip
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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249 The Death Knell of The Post-War Order
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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248 A Tidy & Disciplined Democracy
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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247 The First Test
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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History of The Lev
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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246 The Adversary in The House
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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245 To Reign and Govern
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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244 Checkmate
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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243 By Decree
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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242 Zveno's Strike
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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241 Storm Clouds Gather
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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240 Another Shot at Democracy
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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239 Love and Depression
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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238 Looking Back on The Experiment, Part 2
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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237 Looking Back on The Experiment, Part 1
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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236 Twilight of The Experiment
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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235 Under Pressure
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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234 Triumph of the Moderates?
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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233 The Terror
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May 31, 2025 |
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232 Holy Sunday
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May 27, 2025 |
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231 Strange Bedfellows
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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230 The September Uprising
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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229 The Agrarian Regime in Retrospect
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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228 The Long-Awaited Blow
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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227 A Brilliant Triumph
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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226 Blood on the Streets
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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225 A Drop in the Ocean
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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224 Knife Sharpening
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Podcast Update + Q&A
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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223 Enemies Foreign and Domestic
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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222 Building the ‘Model Agricultural State’
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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221 Looking Back on The National Catastrophes, Part 2
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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220 Looking Back on The National Catastrophes, Part 1
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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219 The Second National Catastrophe
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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218 Stamboliiski Takes Charge
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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217 The Dust Settles
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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216 Armistice and Abdication
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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215 The Peasant and the Tsar
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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214 Breakthrough
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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213 The Spoils
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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212 Eastern Victories?
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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211 The Balkan Verdun
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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210 The Romanian Collapse
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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209 War on Two Fronts
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May 30, 2024 |
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208 The End of the Balkan Stalemate
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May 28, 2024 |
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207 Occupation
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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206 A Dream Realized?
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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205 The Die Is Cast
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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204 The Bulgarian Summer
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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203 Settling Into Stalemate
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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202 The Great War Begins
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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201 Resistance and Acceptance
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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200 The Balkan Wars in Retrospect
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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199 The First National Catastrophe
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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198 One Against All
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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197 The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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196 The Fortresses Fall
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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195 The War Resumes
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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194 The Chataldzha Armistice
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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193 A Wave Against the Rocks
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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192 The Great Race
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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191 Lost Victories
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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190 The Early Stages of The First Balkan War
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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189 Looking Back on The Calm Before the Storm, Part 2
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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188 Looking Back on The Calm Before the Storm, Part 1
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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187 The Balkan League
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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186 Return to Resistance
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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185 Back to Reality
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May 28, 2023 |
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184 The Death of a Principality and Birth of a Kingdom
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May 26, 2023 |
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183 Stamboliiski and the Young Turks
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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182 Snowballs, Bullets, and Wedding Bells
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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181 The Final Rupture
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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180 Massacres on Land and at Sea
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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179 The Year of Congresses
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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178 The World Shakes
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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177 The Ilinden Uprising
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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176 The Boatmen of Thessaloniki
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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175 The Gorna Dzumaya Uprising
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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174 A Government Without Options
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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173 The Miss Stone Affair
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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172 A Violent Start to a Violent Century
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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171 The Agrarians Arrive
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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170 A New Balkan War
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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169 The Cusp of a New Era
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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168 Muslims in Late 19th Century Bulgaria
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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167 Looking Back on Independence, Part 2
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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166 Looking Back on Independence, Part 1
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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165 The End of an Era
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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164 Revolutionary Deja Vu
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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163 The Changing of the Guard
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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162 An Heir and the Fall of Stambolov
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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161 To Chicago and Back
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May 31, 2022 |
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160 Murders and Wedding Bells
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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159 The Knife, the Gavel, and the Noose
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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158 A Royal Ruckus and the Panitsa Plot
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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157 Rebels and Railways
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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156 The Stambolovshtina Begins
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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155 Coronation
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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154 Ferdinand Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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153 "Friendly Advice"
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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152 The End of Alexander Battenberg
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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151 The Serbo-Bulgarian War, Part 2
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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150 The Serbo-Bulgarian War, Part 1
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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149 Unification
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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148 Some Kind of Normalcy
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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147 A Punch in The Nose
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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146 Burned Bridges Everywhere
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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145 The Bomb and the Coup
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Sep 25, 2021 |
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144 The Liberals Get Their Chance
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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143 Politics at its Best and Worst
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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142 An Inauspicious Start
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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141 A Constitution and a Prince
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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140 Hope and Despair
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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139 Looking Back on Bulgarian Awakening, Part 2
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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138 Looking Back on Bulgarian Awakening Part 1
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May 30, 2021 |
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137 The Congress of Berlin
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May 25, 2021 |
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136 The Russo-Turkish War, Part 3
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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135 The Russo-Turkish War, Part 2
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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DIscussion on US-BG History with Ambassador Mustafa
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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134 The Russo-Turkish War, Part 1
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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133 Aftermath
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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132 Botev and Batak
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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131 The April Uprising
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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130 Prelude
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Jan 30, 2021 |
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129 Disaster and Depression
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Jan 23, 2021 |
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128 The Apostle
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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127 The Exarch
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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126 An Exarchate and An Empire
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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125 Bloody Buzludzha
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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124 Time of The Cheti
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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123 Alliances, Confederations, and Empires
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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122 The "Model" Vilayet
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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121 Travel in 19th Century Bulgaria
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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120 Drawing Lines
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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119 Mutually Assured Excommunication
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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118 Balkan Smoke and Unifications
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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117 Soft Power
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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116 In the European Style
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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115 The Crimean War
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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114 The End of The Concert
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May 31, 2020 |
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113 The Spring of Nations
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May 16, 2020 |
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112 Tanzimat
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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111 Rebellions All the Way Down
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Apr 26, 2020 |
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110 “The start of the Balkan tragedy”
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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109 The Auspicious Incident
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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108 The Greek War of Independence
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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107 The Congress of Vienna
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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106 Karađorđe
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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105 Looking Back on Ottoman Decline, Part 2
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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104 Looking Back on Ottoman Decline, Part 1
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Dec 28, 2019 |
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103 An Aristocracy of Pig Farmers
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Dec 23, 2019 |
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102: Revolutions, Rebellions, and Reforms
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Nov 30, 2019 |
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101 Küçük Kaynarca
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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100 The Long Peace and the Brutal War
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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099 Hanging On
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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098 The Tulip Era
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Sep 29, 2019 |
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097 A New Century
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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096 Uprisings, Enlighteners, and the Great Turkish War
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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095 The Second Tarnovo Uprising
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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094 The Siege of Vienna
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Jul 28, 2019 |
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093 March to Europe
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Jul 20, 2019 |
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092 The Reign of Köprülü
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Jun 29, 2019 |
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091 Palace Intrigue
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Jun 22, 2019 |
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090 Sunni vs Shiite, Protestant vs Catholic
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May 26, 2019 |
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089 The Mad King and The Mad Sultan
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May 24, 2019 |
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088 The Changing Empire
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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087 The First Tarnovo Uprising
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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086 The Revenge of the Vassals
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Mar 30, 2019 |
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085 The Principalities Wither
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Mar 10, 2019 |
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084 Lepanto
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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083 Pirates and The World’s Greatest Con Man
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Feb 23, 2019 |
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082 Looking Back on Ottoman Domination, Part 2
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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081 Looking Back on Ottoman Domination, Part 1
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Jan 27, 2019 |
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080 Bulgarians in the Early Years of Ottoman Domination
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Dec 23, 2018 |
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079 Crescendo
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Dec 02, 2018 |
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078 A New Frontier
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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077 A Hungarian Requiem
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Nov 18, 2018 |
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076 Suleiman the Magnificent
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Oct 28, 2018 |
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075 The Fall of the East
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Oct 14, 2018 |
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074 A Return to Conquest
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Sep 29, 2018 |
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073 The Second Ottoman-Venetian War
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Sep 25, 2018 |
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072 A Game of Crowns
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Aug 26, 2018 |
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071 Brother vs Brother
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Aug 25, 2018 |
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070 Go West
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Jul 30, 2018 |
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069 The Fall of Albania
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Jul 16, 2018 |
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068 Scorched Earth
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Jun 30, 2018 |
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067 Skanderbeg
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Jun 14, 2018 |
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066 The Ottoman Venetian War
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May 24, 2018 |
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065 Mehmed the Conqueror
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May 17, 2018 |
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064 The Siege of Belgrade
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Apr 28, 2018 |
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063 The Death of Byzantium
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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062 A Final Crusade
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Mar 31, 2018 |
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061 The Crusade of Varna
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Mar 24, 2018 |
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060 Conquest
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Feb 27, 2018 |
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059 When Peace Won’t Come
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Feb 25, 2018 |
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058 War in the House of Osman
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Jan 28, 2018 |
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057 Timur
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Jan 14, 2018 |
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056 Looking Back on the Second Bulgarian Empire, Part 2
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Dec 30, 2017 |
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055 Looking back on the Second Bulgarian Empire, Part 1
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Dec 28, 2017 |
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054 Looking Back on Byzantine Domination
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Nov 27, 2017 |
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053 The End of Empires
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Nov 19, 2017 |
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052 Bayezid, The Lightning Bolt
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Oct 30, 2017 |
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051 Resistance
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Oct 21, 2017 |
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050 Vassals
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Sep 21, 2017 |
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049 A Wasted Golden Age
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Sep 06, 2017 |
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048 A Disunited Front
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Aug 31, 2017 |
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Podcast Extra 1
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Aug 28, 2017 |
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047 When All Wars Are Civil Wars
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Aug 26, 2017 |
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046 Tsar of the Serbs and the Greeks
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Jul 25, 2017 |
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045 Rise of the Shishmani
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Jul 18, 2017 |
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044 Osman
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Jun 30, 2017 |
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043 The Tatars Reign
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Jun 21, 2017 |
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042 A Swineherd Takes No Prisoners
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May 22, 2017 |
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041 The Empire Returns
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May 15, 2017 |
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040 The Mongols and The Boy Tsars
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Apr 29, 2017 |
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039 Kingdom to Empire, Empire to Dust
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Apr 19, 2017 |
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038 The Bloody House of Asen
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Mar 25, 2017 |
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037 The Roman Slayer
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Mar 13, 2017 |
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036 The Queen of Cities
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Feb 26, 2017 |
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035 Three Brothers, Three Tsars
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Feb 17, 2017 |
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034 A New Empire
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Jan 30, 2017 |
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033 Dreams Of A New Empire
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Jan 29, 2017 |
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031 Deja Vous All Over Again
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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032 The Komnenian Restoration
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Dec 28, 2016 |
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030 Cumans and Crusaders
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Nov 29, 2016 |
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029 The West Returns
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Nov 23, 2016 |
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028 Nikephorus Nikephorus Nikephorus Nikephorus
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Oct 29, 2016 |
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027 Heavy Are The Crowns
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Sep 29, 2016 |
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026 If Byzantium Is The Sheep Who Is The Wolf?
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Aug 30, 2016 |
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025 Domination, Rebellion, Domination
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Aug 01, 2016 |
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024 Looking Back On The First Bulgarian Empire - Part 2
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Jun 29, 2016 |
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023 Looking Back On The First Bulgarian Empire - Part 1
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Jun 05, 2016 |
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022 The Fall Of The First Bulgarian Empire
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Apr 15, 2016 |
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021 The Bulgar Slayer
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Dec 19, 2015 |
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020 The Tightening Noose
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Dec 06, 2015 |
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019 The Comet Burns The West
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Oct 20, 2015 |
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018 Farewell To The Dynasty, Farewell To The East
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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015 An Emperor Beyond The Wall
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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017 The Hermit and The Heretic
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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016 A Peaceful Man Stands Alone
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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014 – A Master of The Balkans
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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012 Saint and Tsar
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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013 - Bulgaria Reborn
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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011 The Pagan Twilight and the Serbian Dawn
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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010 - The Builder
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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009 Khan Krum
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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008 Blood and Boyars (Part 2)
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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007 Blood and Boyars (Part 1)
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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006 – The Fall of The House of Dulo
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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005 – A Savior of Europe
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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004 – The New State and The Eternal Challenges
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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003 - Crossing the "Rubicon"
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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002 Whose 5th Century Horse Tribe is it Anyway?
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Sep 12, 2015 |
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000 Introduction
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Sep 10, 2015 |
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001 - The Balkan Context
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Sep 07, 2015 |