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