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Bulgarian Americans are Americans of full or partial Bulgarian descent. [ 3 ] For the 2000 United States Census , 55,489 Americans indicated Bulgarian as their first ancestry, [ 4 ] while 92,841 persons declared to have Bulgarian ancestry. [ 5 ]
The most famous Brazilian of Bulgarian origin is President Dilma Rousseff from the Workers' Party. Her father Pétar was born in Gabrovo and, as an active member of the Bulgarian Communist Party in the 1920s, had to flee from Bulgaria in 1929 due to political persecution. Rousseff's wide margin over her rivals sparked a "Dilma fever" in ...
The Bulgarian diaspora includes Bulgarians living outside Bulgaria and its surrounding countries, as well as immigrants from Bulgaria abroad. The number of Bulgarians outside Bulgaria has sharply increased since 1989, following the Revolutions of 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe. Over one million Bulgarians have left the country, either ...
The most notable Brazilian citizen of Bulgarian origin is Dilma Rousseff, former and first female president of Brazil. Her father, Pétar, was born in Gabrovo and, as a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party in the 1920s, he was forced to flee Bulgaria in 1929 due to political persecution.
Nowadays there are some 40,000 Roman Catholic Bulgarians in Bulgaria, additional 10,000 in the Banat in Romania and up to 100,000 people of Bulgarian ancestry in South America. The Roman Catholic Bulgarians of the Banat are also descendants of Paulicians who fled there at the end of the 17th century after an unsuccessful uprising against the ...
With a great majority the delegates supported the proposal for annexation to Bulgaria. In January 1919 after Bulgaria lost the war, a memoir was sent to the Great Powers, submitted by the Macedono-Bulgarian Central Committee in the US. In it was explained the real motives of Bulgaria to enter the war and it demanded Macedonia to join to ...
This category page lists notable citizens of the United States of Bulgarian ethnic or national origin or descent, whether partial or full. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Cyril and Methodius Macedono-Bulgarian [10] Orthodox Parish, which until 1945 remained the only such community in Canada. [11] In 7 March 1957 the Bulgarian Canadian Society was found. [12] A Bulgarian school, funded by the Bulgarian Orthodox community, was founded in Toronto as early as 1914: this was also the first Bulgarian school in the ...