10 Facts About Fanula Papazoglu

Fanula Papazoglu was a Yugoslav classical scholar, epigrapher and academic.

Fanula Papazoglu was an expert in Ancient history of the Balkans.

Fanula Papazoglu founded the Centre for Ancient Epigraphy and Numismatics in 1970.

Fanula Papazoglu finished secondary school in Bitola, before attending the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy, where she studies classical philology, ancient history, and archeology.

Fanula Papazoglu graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in 1946, and worked at the Department for Ancient History at the Faculty of Philosophy from 1947.

At the Belgrade University Fanula Papazoglu met and married the prominent Yugoslav Byzantologist of Russian origin, George Ostrogorsky, with whom she had a daughter, Tatyana, and a son, Alexander.

Fanula Papazoglu wrote in the same tradition as other archaeologists of her era, culture-historical-evolutionist archaeology.

Fanula Papazoglu's work focused on the subject of the "Central Balkan tribes" which she defined as compact collective groups associated with specific archaeological cultures distinct from other archaeological cultures and defined stable borders throughout antiquity.

Fanula Papazoglu's work was influential in her era, but has been criticized in contemporary archaeology.

Mihailovic notes that Triballi is the name of a pre-Roman people near Roman Oescus for which Fanula Papazoglu constructed a defined territory which in reality is undeterminable via available data.