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Bulgarian books and libraries in Hungary.

HARGITAINÉ SZIMEONOVA Rajna

Bulgaria and Hungary committed themselves to develop Bulgarian-Hungarian cultural relations for the first time in 1941, in an agreement between ministries of culture. The Bulgarian Cultural and Information Centre has then, however, been already operating for 7 years. Besides the Library of the Centre, scientific, Bulgaristics literature and fiction are to be found in the Bulgarian Cultural Association, in the Library of the Bulgarian Primary and Secondary School and in the Slavic Department of the Loránd Eötvös University. The Centre is a publisher too: its bilingual publication, the "Hungaro-Bulgarica" contains the materials of conferences organized by the Centre, Works on issues of philology and literary scholarship. The Centre is self-sufficient from 1974 on. Its expenses are covered from the incomes of its two shops. Before the system change the Centre had contacts only with the cultural institutes of socialist countries. An example of the changes is that the meeting on environmental protection, initiated by the Goethe-Institut, will take place in the Bulgarian Cultural and Information Centre in 1992. (PP. 410-411)

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