Některé problémy adaptace českých usídlenců v severozápadním Bulharsku

Abstract

The main topic of the text is the history of the only Czech village in Bulgaria – Vojvodovo. The article covers the whole “Czech” period of this village from the migration of some twenty Protestant families from Banatian Czech village of Svata Helena to Bulgaria and the foundation of Vojvodovo in 1900, to the post-war period when almost all Czech inhabitants of Vojvodovo left the village and moved to the South-Moravia region in Czechoslovakia. In a rather classic way the author describes the spheres of language, folklore, kinship and economy of the community, and proves that its main core was its religiosity described as the community-differentiating and community-maintaining principle.

Keywords

• Bulgaria
• compatriots
• Vojvodovo
• ethnology
• migration