Monography profile

The book presents the first steps and initial stages in the development of Roma civil emancipation, beginning during the period of the Bulgarian National Revival within the Ottoman Empire and continuing to actively evolve in the context of the newly independent Bulgarian state up until the end of the Second World War. The focus of the study is on the individuals whose activities most clearly reflect, in a synthesized form, the foundational concepts of the Roma civil emancipation process, and through whom its essence and main characteristics can best be understood. The individual chapters are not merely biographies of specific figures (Ilia Naumchev, Atanas Dimitrov, Dr. Marko Markov, Gyulish Mustafa, Shakir Pashov, Pastor Petar Minkov, and others), but rather a presentation—through the lives and work of these leading figures—of the broader development of Roma civil emancipation, including its various directions and stages.