THE BULGARIAN NORTHWEST IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND LITERATURE, compil. by Prof. Alexandre Kostov, Dr. habil., Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia: IK Tendril, 2025, 218 p. ISBN 978-619-7812-00-8.

The collection "The Bulgarian Northwest in Scientific Research and Literature" is the sixth publication in a row of proceedings from the annual conferences organized by the IBSCT-BAS Branch in the city of Montana (Bulgaria) focusing on Northwest Bulgaria. The volume dedicated to scholarly research and literature includes ten articles by researchers from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Regional History Museum in Montana, the State Archives - Montana, the New Bulgarian University and the University of Forestry. For another year, scholarly works by doctoral students and academics, research presenting unpublished archival material and analyses of the cultural achievements of significant figures from the Northwest have been collected in one place.

The collection "The Bulgarian Northwest in Scientific Research and Literature" follows the tradition of popularizing the history of Northwest Bulgaria by not only introducing unknown or little-known archival materials into scholarly parlance, but also revealing the cultural wealth of the region. The presented collection of publications includes texts written by four academics, which is a clear sign for the importance that the series on the Bulgarian Northwest has acquired in recent years. This sixth volume also clearly shows the growth of young researchers who have been given the opportunity to publish their scholarly works in the last years.