Abstract :
It is well known that Bulgaria has advanced quickly in the fields of veterinerian organisation, livestock raising and breeding both in the 1878-1908 ‘Chieftainship’ period, when Bulgaria had partial ties with the Ottoman Empire and in the post 1908 ‘Kingdom’ period. Bulgaria, although very similar to Turkey in terms of society and geography, has recorded a significant improvement in veterinarian organisation and livestock raising, in a shorter period. Therefore, this development process is worthwhile to study. These two dimensions of animal husbandry in Bulgaria; the improvements in raising and sanitation fields, is parallel to the historic process of the transition from the traditional veterinary roles in Ottoman Empire to the modern and scientific veterinary educations and institutions. However, Bulgarians completed this transitional period much before the Ottoman example. The importance of following the developments in the fields of veterinary organisation and livestock raising in Europe in the post XVIII. Century can’t be denied in this process. Bulgaria while trying to constitute modern Westernized institutions in accordance with the Western identity, which is trying to be established, kept feeding these intitutions with rich resources of the East, as in the example of stud farm organisations. The Rumelian (Balkan) breed that constitutes the basis of Bulgarian horses both in the Chieftainship and Kingdom periods were fed and bred by the blood of Arabian broodstocks, whose main lands were Ottoman Syria and Iraq.
