For Pierre Nora, one can only speak of a lieu de mémoire if there is a prior intent to remember: "Without an intent to remember, lieux de memoire would be lieux d'histoire." The research that I have been conducting for three years on what I call the ignored languages of the Bulgarian literary space bears witness to this lack of intent to remember texts written in languages other than that (in its historical varieties) of the nation state: Bulgarian literary historiography ignores them because, since its constitution at the end of the nineteenth century, it has been based on appropriateness: one nation, one literature, one language, and therefore proposes a national, monolingual and masculine canon. The notion of literary space (unlike that of literature or literary field), which is central to my argument, is not limited to a territory bounded by the borders of the national: Istanbul, Bucharest, Braila, Odessa, for example, are part of the Bulgarian literary space in the nineteenth century. It is a space where people, ideas and texts written in several languages circulated, (Armenian, Ottoman, Turkish, Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish, Arabic and Persian), a space with a multiplicity of identities in territories that were for five centuries incorporated into the Ottoman Empire. The brief cartography that I am going to present, which excludes Old Slavonic, Slavonic, Bulgarian and Greek, the language of the educated Slavic elite in the 18th and early 19th centuries, is only one element in the current state of my research, which is made difficult by the lack of intent to remember this subject in Bulgaria and by the dispersion of information: it is therefore a work in progress.