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In Ottoman Bulgaria (1396–1878), like elsewhere in the Ottoman Empire, populations were classified according to the millet (approximately "religious nation") system by religion rather than by ethnicity, and therefore Bulgarian Orthodox Christians were grouped together with Orthodox Christians of other ethnicities in the so-called Rum Millet ...
The question on ethnicity was voluntary and 10% of the population did not declare any ethnicity, [47] thus the figure is considered an underestimation. Ethnic Bulgarians are estimated at around 6 million, 85% of the population. [48] ^ b: Estimates [49] [50] of the number of Pomaks whom most scholars categorize as Bulgarians [51] [52]
Bulgarian people by ethnographic region (5 C, 4 P) A. Aromanians (11 C, 6 P) Aromanians in Bulgaria (2 C, 2 P) B. ... Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Bulgaria"
The preservation of paganism among the Bulgars and the Slavs, the ethnic groups that formed, along with the local, Romanized (later called Vlachs) or Hellenized Christian Thracian population, the Bulgarian people and nation brought another disadvantage — the pagan and Christian ethnic groups' unification was hampered by their different ...
In Bulgaria, the term Bulgaromans; (Bulgarian: българомани, romanized: bălgaromani; Romanian: bulgaromani) refers to non-Slavic people such as Aromanians [6] with a Bulgarian self-awareness. [7] In the 20th century, Bulgarophiles in neighboring Yugoslavia and Greece were considered enemies of the state harboring irredentist ...
There are considerable differences in the share of illiterate persons amongst the three main ethnic groups. Amongst the Bulgarian ethnic group the share of illiterate is 0.5%, amongst the Turkish - 4.7% and amongst the Roma ethnic group - 11.8%. [89] About 81 thousand people aged seven or more never visited school. [90]
Due to the multitude of different ethnic and religious identities of the Muslim Bulgarians, it is extremely difficult to calculate the exact number of the members of the community in Bulgaria. An inquiry conducted by the Bulgarian Ministry of the Interior in 1989 estimated their number at 269,000.
Officially no ethnic Pomaks are recorded, while 67,000 declared Muslim and ethnic Bulgarian identity, [4] down from 131,000 who declared Muslim Bulgarian identity at the 2001 census. [77] Unofficially, there may be between 150,000 [ 21 ] and 250,000 [ 1 ] Pomaks in Bulgaria, though maybe not in the ethnic sense as one part declare Bulgarian ...