In the time of his reign (Anastasius), the Thracian Vitalian kept under some pretense by using of the exiled bishops, and he took Thrace, Scythia and… - Gančo Cěnov

In his present volume, Tsenov gives a careful and interesting account of the complex historical events in the second half of the first century, which preserves its value even if one disagrees with some of his claims.

If historians who are able to check the facts admit their allegiance, we will have to change some of our beliefs about the origins of Germanism. We have to add that this book is abundant with documents and that some explanations, to say the Christianization of the Goths and the Huns, are very well documented and deserve serious attention.

"The Turkish and Greek tyrants had reduced the Bulgarian people to the lowest level of human culture, but their Bulgarians could not be rooted out. Under the consciousness of the people, there were still embryos of national sense. The Bulgarian people realized that it was a people and had its own independent state, and it even managed to win its people's church. Russia freed part of the Bulgarian people. The liberated Bulgarians were called for autonomous rule, but they were divided into two factions.... One of them, the Slavophiles, thought that Bulgaria should be placed under Russia's protectorate because it could rule itself.... The other faction, the Patriots, wanted an independent Bulgaria. The fierce struggles between both factions filled the history of Bulgaria from its independence to the world war. Russophiles grew up with various modern trends, such as communists, socialists, and other truths that did not give birth to tobacco and native tobacco. The fatherland was considered a vice for backwardness. It is hard to say that one is a patriot."''