Planning Capital Cities

Hristo Ganchev, Grigor Doytchinov

achievement of the governmental sovereignty, marked by the Unification of the
Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia in 1885^14 and the Independence
Declaration in 1908,^15 which establishes the unity of nation and state. The
Bulgarian National Revival is in the European context a delayed transition from
the Middle Ages to the modernity and combines the Renaissance, the Age of
Enlightenment and the Bourgeois Revolution at once.^16

Fig. 2

The cadastral map of the

ottoman settlement made by

Russian military engineers,

1878. (Museum of Sofia)