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Ispolin, the Glossary

The ispolin (исполин, plural исполини ispolini) is a legendary giant in Bulgarian mythology.^[1]

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Bulgarian folklore
Giants

Anathema

The word anathema has two main meanings.

Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Balkans

The Balkans, corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions.

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The blackberry is an edible fruit produced by many species in the genus Rubus in the family Rosaceae, hybrids among these species within the subgenus Rubus, and hybrids between the subgenera Rubus and Idaeobatus.

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Bulgarians

Bulgarians (bŭlgari) are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and its neighbouring region, who share a common Bulgarian ancestry, culture, history and language.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Cyclopes

In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, the Cyclopes (Κύκλωπες, Kýklōpes, "Circle-eyes" or "Round-eyes"; singular Cyclops; Κύκλωψ, Kýklōps) are giant one-eyed creatures.

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Cynocephaly

The characteristic of cynocephaly, or cynocephalus, having the head of a canid, typically that of a dog or jackal, is a widely attested mythical phenomenon existing in many different forms and contexts.

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Dwarf (folklore)

A dwarf is a type of supernatural being in Germanic folklore.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Etymology

Etymology (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the scientific study of words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".) is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.

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First Bulgarian Empire

The First Bulgarian Empire (blŭgarĭsko tsěsarǐstvije; Първо българско царство) was a medieval state that existed in Southeastern Europe between the 7th and 11th centuries AD. It was founded in 680–681 after part of the Bulgars, led by Asparuh, moved south to the northeastern Balkans.

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Giant

In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: gigas, cognate giga-) are beings of humanoid appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance. Ispolin and giant are giants.

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Goths

The Goths (translit; Gothi, Gótthoi) were Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.

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Greeks

The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..

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Ihtiman

Ihtiman (Ихтиман) is a town in western Bulgaria, part of Sofia Province.

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Italic peoples

The concept of Italic peoples is widely used in linguistics and historiography of ancient Italy.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Kievan Rus'

Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus,.

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Kourbania

Kourbania (το κουρμπάνι, pl. -ια from kurban and ultimately from qurbān, sacrificial rite analogous to Jewish qorban) is a Christianized animal sacrifice in parts of Greece. Ispolin and Kourbania are Bulgarian folklore.

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Malko Tarnovo

Malko Tarnovo (Малко Търново, "Little Tarnovo"; as opposed to Veliko Tarnovo) is a town in Burgas Province, southeastern Bulgaria, 5 km from the Turkish border.

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Max Vasmer

Max Julius Friedrich Vasmer (Maksimilian Romanovich Fasmer; 28 February 1886 – 30 November 1962) was a Russian and German linguist.

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Myth

Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.

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Natural History (Pliny)

The Natural History (Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder.

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Old Church Slavonic

Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic is the first Slavic literary language.

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Origin myth

An origin myth is a type of myth that explains the beginnings of a natural or social aspect of the world.

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Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Samokov

Samokov (Самоков) is a town in Sofia Province in the southwest of Bulgaria.

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Slavic dragon

A Slavic dragon is any dragon in Slavic mythology, including the Russian zmei (or zmey; змей), Ukrainian zmiy, and its counterparts in other Slavic cultures: the Bulgarian zmey (змей), the Slovak drak and šarkan, Czech drak, Polish italic, the Serbo-Croatian zmaj (змај), the Macedonian zmej (змеј) and the Slovene zmaj. Ispolin and Slavic dragon are Bulgarian folklore.

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Veliko Tarnovo

Veliko Tarnovo (Veliko Tŭrnovo,; "Great Tarnovo") is a city in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ispolin

Also known as Ispolin (Bulgarian mythology).