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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 ...
Ostensibly, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church was granted a foremost status, and in 1945, under the pressure of Moscow and alongside the establishment of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (1945–1990), the Patriarchate of Constantinople recognised the church's autocephaly, and the metropolitan of Sofia was elected as Exarch Stefan I (1878–1957 ...
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.
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]
[83] [25] [76] [84] He founded the Old Great Bulgaria (Magna Bulgaria [85]), also known as Onoğundur–Bulğars state, or Patria Onoguria in the Ravenna Cosmography. [86] [76] [36] Little is known about Kubrat's activities. It is considered that Onogur Bulgars remained the only steppe tribes in good relations with the Byzantines. [85]
Irreligion is uncommon in Bulgaria, as most citizens are Eastern Orthodox or Muslim. In the 2011 Bulgarian census, 9.3% of Bulgarians declared that they were irreligious, [1] a significant increase from 3.88% in 2001. [8] Eurobarometer found the number of irreligious Bulgarians to be 5% in 2019, with an additional 4% undeclared. [9]
The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages.Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Northern Asia, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, [1] [2] and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the ...
The ethnic group in scholarly literature is called as Banat Bulgarians, Bulgarians Roman Catholics, Bulgarians Paulicians, or simply Paulicians (Pavlićani or Pavlikijani with dialectic forms Palćani, Palčene, Palkene). The latter ethnonym is used by the group members as self-identification (being endonym), and to express "I / we" which is ...