site.btaBulgarian-Romanian Project Debates History of Dobruja Region

A joint Bulgarian-Romanian project discussed history of Dobruja, said the Institute for Historical Studies with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences on its webpage.

Disputed by both Bulgaria and Romania and hard to divide by a final border under the Treaty of Craiova of 1940, the region between the Danube and the Black Sea divided, antagonized and connected the two neighbouring countries. These historical realities are at the heart of a joint scientific project between the Institute for Historical Studies with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Institute for South East European Studies with the Romanian Academy which looks into Dobruja as a border region of the late Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria and Romania. A second online conference has been held within its framework.

The reports shed light on aspects of the international relations and diplomacy, political and human dimensions of the Dobruja question, historiography and the memory of the Dobruja past. Despite inevitably keeping the different takes in the studies and interpretations, the forum showed that professional historians are called and can eliminate "anger and preferences" in the historical knowledge about disputed territory and minority issues.