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The beginning of the Bulgarian National Revival has been a topic of intensified discussion in the past.

According to contemporaries of the period, it began in the 1820s.

Later Marin Drinov suggested the actual beginning was marked by the writing of Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya by Paisius of Hilendar.

According to an even later assumption by Hristo Gandev, the period began in the beginning of the 17th century.

The prevailing opinion in contemporary historiography is that the Bulgarian National Revival's beginning is marked by the first clear processes of decomposition in the Ottoman Empire.