Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki
The Sts. Cyril and Methodius Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki[1] (Bulgarian: Солунска българска мъжка гимназия „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“, Solunska balgarska mazhka gimnazia „Sv. sv. Kiril i Metodiy“) [2] was the first Bulgarian high school in Macedonia. One of the most influential Bulgarian educational centres in Macedonia, it was founded in autumn 1880[3] in Ottoman Thessaloniki (today in Greece) and existed until 1913.[4]
Foundation
The first
Further development
The high school began holding classes in 1880 in a building in the same neighborhood. In 1910, the school had eight classrooms, twelve teachers, and 133 students.
Among the initiators, principals and teachers at the high school were noted Bulgarian intellectuals, scientists, and public figures such as Kuzman Shapkarev, Vasil Kanchov, Grigor Parlichev, and Konstantin Velichkov. The school's graduates include Gotse Delchev, Dame Gruev, Todor Aleksandrov, Andrey Lyapchev, Ivan Mihaylov, Petar Darvingov, Anton Ketskarov and other key figures of the Bulgarian revolutionary movement and politics of the early 20th century.
Honours
Solun Glacier on Loubet Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica is named "after the Bulgarian High School of Solun (Thessaloniki), a major Bulgarian education centre during the late 19th and early 20th century; presently located in Blagoevgrad, Southwestern Bulgaria".[9]
On 5 March 2014 the Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris unveiled a commemorative plaque at the site of the high school, 99 Olymbou St., together with Petar Stoyanovich, Bulgarian Minister of Culture.
See also
- Bulgarian Men's High School of Adrianople
- Education in the Ottoman Empire
- Bulgarian High School of Bolgrad
- Bulgarian Girls' High School of Thessaloniki
Notes
- ^ ″The Exarchate eventually yielded, and the St Cyril and St Methodius Bulgarian High School opened in Thessaloniki in the spring of 1880; followed two years later by the Annunciation Bulgarian Girls' High School.″ Hidryma Meletōn Chersonēsou tou Haimou, p. 71.
- ^ direkzija Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bozhinov, p. 73
- ^ Mazover p. 279.
- ^ a b Vanchev, p.66
- ^ Shatev, p.342
- ^ Demetriades, p. 401
- ^ "NL33_2: The War of Numbers".
- ^ Solun Glacier. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
References
- Vanchev, Yordan (1970). Plamakat na Solunskia Svetilnik (in Bulgarian). Sofia: Narodna Prosveta.
- Shatev, Pavel (1934). Sbornik "Solun" (in Bulgarian). Sofia.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Bozhinov, Voin (1982). Българската просвета в Македония и Одринска Тракия 1878-1913 (Bulgarian Education in Macedonia and Adrianopole Thrace 1878-1913) (in Bulgarian). Sophia: Izd-vo na Bŭlgarskata akademii︠a︡ na naukite. p. 73.
- Demetriades, Vasiles (1983). Topographia tēs Thessalonikēs kata tēn epochē tēs Tourkokratias, 1430-1912 (Topography of Thessaloniki in the Age of the Turkokratia). Makedonikē Bibliothēkē (in Greek). Vol. 61. Thessaloniki: Hetaireia Makedonikōn Spoudōn. p. 401.
- Salonica, city of ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950, Vintage Series, Mark Mazower, 2006, ISBN 0375727388.
- Balkan Studies: Biannual Publication of the Institute for Balkan Studies, volume 42, Hidryma Meletōn Chersonēsou tou Haimou (Thessalonikē, Greece) The Institute, 2001.