Editor: Mihai Dragnea (University of South-Eastern Norway) Starting from 2020, Hiperboreea is published by the Penn State University Press (PSU Press).
Hiperboreea (ISSN 2688-8211; E-ISSN 2284-5666) is the official journal of the Balkan History Association. It publishes articles in the field of History, written in English and occasionally French, book reviews, and evaluations of scholarly conferences. Our focus is the study of Southeastern Europe, broadly defined as the states situated in the Balkan region. Without limiting its scope to a specifi
c historical period or approach, the journal covers a wide range of topics, such as Cultural History, Political History, Military History, Social History, Economic History, and Archaeology, and encourages work on any historical period and with a multidisciplinary approach. Since its first publication in 2012, Hiperboreea has had a monthly periodicity from January 2012 to March 2013, a quarterly publication until the end of 2013, and, starting 2014, a biannual appearance. According to the ranking system of the National Council of Scientific Research (CNCS) in Romania, the journal is included in category B (Humanities, History and Cultural Studies). The Editorial Board invite submissions from senior scholars and junior researchers who have obtained the doctoral degree. PhD students may also submit articles as co-authors with their supervisors or other senior researchers. The editors will inform authors of the decision on their manuscripts within a few weeks from submission. All articles submitted to our journal are reviewed following a double blind peer-review, which means that the reviewer’s and author’s identities are concealed from each other throughout the review process. Our policy requires at least two reviewers per issue, although it is customary that many more reviewers cooperate on individual articles. Members of the Balkan History Association will receive printed and electronic copies by virtue of their membership. Hiperboreea is one of the few Romanian journals that have built a solid presence in the online environment, being indexed in the following international databases and libraries:
ISI Web of Science (ESCI), EBSCO, Scopus, CEEOL, ERIH PLUS, ProQuest, ProQuest Philosophy Database, Index Copernicus, JSTOR, Ulrich, WorldCat, Regesta Imperii, J-Gate, Persée, Modern Language Association International Bibliography, Bibliographical Information Base in Patristics, International Medieval Bibliography, International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance, Columbia International Affairs Online, Romanian Academy Library, National Library of Australia, Oxford Library, Harvard Library, University of Waterloo Library, State Library of New South Wales University, University of Toronto Libraries etc.
06/03/2025
The volume “Wallachian Mobility and Settlement along the Carpathian Arc“, edited by Mihai Dragnea, Miloš Marek, Grzegorz Jawor, and John Polemikos has just been published by Routledge. The volume discusses various aspects of the Wallachian mobility and settlement along the Carpathian arc between the 14th and 18th centuries. These reflect a fundamental drive to enhance daily life by migrating to new territories. The Wallachian features not only shaped their own existence but also left a lasting impact on the regions they inhabited along the Carpathian Arc. Through their migration they not only became part of a larger narrative of human resilience and adaptability but also reflect humanity’s drive for better opportunity. The volume, which is a project initiated by the Balkan History Association, brings together the research from multinational scholars of various academic disciplines.
Valeria Fol, Eli Filipova, Ivo Topalilov, Kalin Porozhanov, Svetlana Yanakieva, Stoyanka Dimitrova, Todor Chobanov, The Thracians: What You Need to Know (Sofia: 2025) reviewed by Jordan Iliev. Freely available at https://www.balkan-history.com/the-thracians-book/
Asociația de Istorie Balcanică a semnat un acord de cooperare cu Societatea Bibliotecarilor Bucovineni din Cernăuți, Ucraina. Societatea sprijină educația în comunitățile rurale românești din nordul Bucovinei, prin furnizarea de cărți pentru bibliotecile școlare, mobilier și alte resurse necesare pentru bibliotecă. Scopul parteneriatului este de a promova istoria și cultura Bucovinei și de a crea o platformă de cooperare între cercetătorii din România și Ucraina. De asemenea, va facilita un dialog constructiv și va contribui la o mai bună înțelegere a comunităților din Bucovina și a moștenirii lor culturale comune. Acordul a fost semnat de Mihai Dragnea, președintele Asociației de Istorie Balcanică, si de Vladimir Acatrini, președintele Societății Bibliotecarilor Bucovineni.
The Balkan History Association signed a cooperative agreement with the Bukovina Society of Librarians in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, who supports rural education in the Romanian communities of northern Bukovina by providing books for school libraries and additional library equipment. The aim of the partnership is to promote the history and culture of Bukovina and to create a platform for cooperation between researchers in Romania and Ukraine. This will facilitate a constructive dialogue and will contribute to a better understanding of the communities of Bukovina, and their shared cultural heritage. The association is represented by its president, Mihai Dragnea, while the society is represented by its president, Vladimir Acatrini.
A delegation of the Balkan History Association met for the second time with representatives of the Museum of the Moravian Wallachia Region in Vsetín, Czech Republic. The association was represented by its President, Mihai Dragnea, and the Vice-President, Dorina Dragnea. The Museum was represented by Lukáš Spitzer, Deputy Director and Head of Operations (also serving as Data Protection Officer), Ivana Spitzer Ostřanská from the Research and Marketing department, and Pavel Mašláň, Curator and Program Officer. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss various issues for future collaboration on culture and heritage in Moravian Wallachia and along the Carpathian arc.
20/01/2025
10/01/2025
Platforma Formular 230 pentru anul 2025 este activă! Colectarea formularelor se va face până pe 26 mai 2025, iar depunerea se va realiza online în același mod ca și anul trecut. Acesta este cel mai ușor și benefic mod de a sprijini asociația noastră! Vă rugăm să răspândiți afișul. https://formular230.ro/asociatia-de-istorie-balcanica
Vă anunțăm deschiderea platformei Formular 230 pentru anul 2025! Aceasta vine cu câteva schimbări importante, care vă vor ajuta în relația cu contribuabilii individuali cu care veți comunica într-un mod mai simplu și transparent, în conformitate cu noile reglementări legislative.
Contribuabilii au opțiunea de a-și da acordul ca datele lor de indentificare și suma redirecționată să fie comunicate către ONG-ul susținut. Acest pas este esențial pentru ca ANAF să poată transmite dacă sumele au fost virate către organizații.
Colectarea formularelor se va face până pe 26 mai 2025, iar depunerea se va realiza online în același mod ca și anul trecut. Acesta este cel mai ușor și benefic mod de a sprijini asociația noastră! Vă rugăm să răspândiți afișul. Vă mulțumim!
We are pleased to inform you that the latest issue of Hiperboreea, Vol. 11, No. 2 (2024) has been released and is available online through the Scholarly Publishing Collective (managed by Duke University Press). Hiperboreea is published by the Penn State University Press on behalf of the Balkan History Association (BHA).
ARTICLES
“Realm of the Slavs” and the Coronation of Svatopluk, King of the Slavs: Historical Fiction or Fact? A Few Sentences on the Origins of the Political Imagination of Regnum Sclavorum (Martin Hozma, Comenius University, Bratislava)
Five Centuries of Plague Presence in Albania (Fourteenth to Nineteenth Century (Ardian Muhaj, Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana)
Credit, Charity, and the Modernization of Romanians in Transylvania (Late Nineteenth Century to Early Twentieth Century) (Maria A. Pantea, Vasile Goldiș Western University of Arad)
Civic Activism in Rural Transylvania: The Case of Folk Gazettes (gazete poporale), 1867–1914 (Sorin Radu, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu and Alexandru Nicolaescu, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Sibiu, Romanian Academy)
Invisible Spaces: Bucharest Market Hall Basement—A Tool for Modernizing the Food Chain (1872–1914) (Simion Câlția, Faculty of History, University of Bucharest)
The Symbolic “Realms of Memory” in Sofia at the Beginning of Bulgarian Political Transition (1989–1993) (Georgeta Nazarska, University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Sofia)
BOOK REVIEWS
Mihailo Popović (Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences), Achilles C. Emilianides (University of Nicosia), Dimitra Moniou (University of the Peloponnese), Sorin Paliga (University of Bucharest), Efstratia Sygkellou (University of Ioannina), Emina Mostić (Oriental Institute, University of Sarajevo), Viktor Shapoval (Institute of Humanities, Moscow City University), Omer Merzić (Institute for Historical Research, University of London), Anna Batzeli (Democritus University of Thrace), Wolfgang Dahmen (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena).
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Jolanta Sujecka (ed.), The Balkan Jews and the Minority Issue in South-Eastern Europe (Warszawa: Wydawca, 2020) reviewed by Francesco Trupia, PhD, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Freely available at https://hiperboreeajournal.com/balkan-jews/
26/10/2024
"Deportation in East Central Europe in the 20th Century: Snapshots of Invisible Incarceration" is the 13th volume in the Book Series South-East European History, edited by Mihai Dragnea and published by Peter Lang on behalf of the Balkan History Association (BHA). Two of the three editors (Mihaela Martin, Michael D. Sagatis) are members of the Association.
The volume presents a wide-ranging survey of forced deportations by totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe throughout the 20th century. The chapters focus on deportation policies and practices among regimes in Romania, Ukraine, Albania, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, and the former U.S.S.R, collectively highlighting the long-term effects of these policies and their significance to contemporary societies in Eastern Europe. Deportation was a pervasive phenomenon, with socio-economic, demographic, and political implications that have structurally affected the shape and composition of contemporary European societies. Whether considering political repression, ideological clashes, social upheavals, territorial claims, ethnic cleansing, or conflicts within and between societies, deportation was a destabilizing factor across all aspects of twentieth-century East European history. The result of a project initiated by the Association, it will be a crucial resource for researchers, educators and policy makers.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
The Evolution of a Massacre: The Uniqueness of Kamenets-Podolsk (Dorottya Sziszkoszné-Halász)
‘We Are Dragged Off to Siberia!’ Deported Hungarians under Soviet Duress, 1956–1957 (Miklós Horváth)
First ‘Circulating’ and Later ‘Educating’: Enver Hoxha and the Disempowerment of the Techno-Bureaucratic Establishment in Communist Albania (Artan R. Hoxha)
Hungarian Jewish Women in the Sömmerda Forced Labour Camp: Narratives on the Woman’s Body (Heléna Huhák)
Everyday Life of Forced Immigrants on the Territory of Eastern Galicia under the Conditions of the Soviet Totalitarian Regime from 1939 to 1941 (Ilnytskyi Vasyl, Starka Volodymyr)
Deportation of Crimean Tatars: Constructing the Myth of the Lost Homeland (Martin-Oleksandr Kisly)
Operation ‘Thunderstorm’: Deportation to the Kazakh SSR in 1951 (Based on Unpublished Archive Materials of the Former KGB Archive of the Georgian SSR) (Vladimer Luarsabishvili)
Ambiguous Belongings: The 1940 Refugees from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in Oltenia (Diana-Mihaela Păunoiu)
Creating the Enemy: Roma People Between Discrimination and Deportation. The Romanian Case (Daniela Popescu, Manuela Marin)
Mosaic of a Social Memory: How the North Caucasians Recall the Deportation (Victor Shnirelman)
Dealing with ‘The Domestic Enemy’ – Internment of National Minorities in Hungarian Camps During the First World War (László Somogyi)
Vapniarka: Forms of Antifascist Resistance in the Camp of Death (Olga Stefan)
Deportation Routes to Bergen-Belsen from Hungary, 1944–1945: Personal Narratives of Hungarian Jews (András Szécsényi)
Germans or Bulgarians? The German Population in Bulgaria Between Exclusion and Inclusion at the End of the Second World War (Lyubomira Valcheva-Nundloll)
From Greek Macedonia to Asia Minor: Deportation or Forced Migration of Muslims Based on the Lausanne Peace Treaty (Vlasis Vlasidis, Areti Makri, Aikaterini Yannoukakou)
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Hiperboreea (ISSN 2688-8211; E-ISSN 2284-5666) is the official journal of the Balkan History Association. It publishes articles in the field of History, written in English and occasionally French, and book reviews, or evaluations of scholarly conferences. Our focus is the study of Southeastern Europe, broadly defined as the states situated in the Balkan region.
Without limiting its scope to a specific historical period or approach, the journal covers a wide range of topics, such as Cultural History, Political History, Military History, Social History, Economic History, and Archaeology, and encourages work on any historical period and with a multidisciplinary approach.
Since its first publication in 2012, Hiperboreea has had a monthly periodicity from January 2012 to March 2013, a quarterly publication until the end of 2013, and, starting 2014, a biannual appearance.
Starting from 2020, Hiperboreea is published by the Penn State University Press (PSU Press). The editors will inform authors of the decision on their manuscripts within a few weeks from submission. All articles submitted to our journal are reviewed following a double blind peer-review, which means that the reviewer's and author's identities are concealed from each other throughout the review process. Our policy requires at least two reviewers per issue, although it is customary that many more reviewers cooperate on individual articles. Members of the Balkan History Association will receive printed and electronic copies by virtue of their membership.
Hiperboreea is one of the few Romanian journals that have built a solid presence in the online environment, being indexed in the following international databases and libraries:
Web of Science (ESCI), EBSCO, Scopus, CEEOL, ERIH PLUS, ProQuest, ProQuest Philosophy Database, Index Copernicus, JSTOR, Ulrich, WorldCat, Regesta Imperii, Columbia International Affairs Online, J-Gate, Modern Language Association International Bibliography, Bibliographical Information Base in Patristics, International Medieval Bibliography, International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance, Romanian Academy Library, National Library of Australia, Oxford Library, Harvard Library, University of Waterloo Library, State Library of New South Wales University, University of Toronto Libraries, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Villanova University Library, University Library of Tübingen, Marburg University Library, Ghent University Library, Flinders University Library, Regensburg University Library, Lancaster University Library, Mount St. Mary College Library, University Library of KU Leuven, UNSW Sydney Library, Simon Fraser University Library, University of Washington Libraries, Scuola Normale Superiore, Portland State University Library, ACNP of the University of Bologna, Kyushu University Library, KVC of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Hebis, eLIBRARY.RU.
