A Reconceptualization of the Founding and Settlement of Voyvodovo - From Monogenesis to Polygenesis, From Sites to Networks (Illustrated Through the Papp Family)
Abstract
The main general topic of the paper is a question of the foundation of Voyvodovo - the only Czech village in Bulgaria. Contrary to standard history of the village describing Voyvodovo as a kind of "colony" of another Czech village of Svatá Helena, located in today Romanian part of Banat, the author shows and supports with evidence that among the founders of Voyvodovo there were not only Czechs from Svatá Helena, but other groups, too - Banat Bulgarians (Paulicians), Serbs and Slovaks.
The second part of the paper presents an annotated edition of the text of Katja Jankova Škărpanova (née Papova) - an offspring of a Slovak migrant from (partly) Slovak village in Romania, Nadlac - named "A Pap Family". The editon is accompanied by expanatory commnets in the form of footnotes.
Finally, the paper provides a brief assessment of its place within Voyvodovo research as well as the text's contribution to broader debates.