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Turkey is one of Bulgaria's top 5 trading partners and accounts for almost 8 percent of total foreign trade. Between 2020 and 2022, the bilateral trade volume rose from $4.8 to $7.4 billion. 1,500 Turkish companies are active in Bulgaria and have invested more than two billion US dollars in the country.
The Bulgaria–Turkey border (Bulgarian: Българо-турска граница, romanized: Būlgaro-turska granitsa,Turkish: Bulgaristan–Türkiye sınırı) is a 259 km (161 mi) long international border between the Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic of Turkey.
[4] [5] It has also been suggested that some Turks living today in Bulgaria may be direct ethnic descendants of earlier medieval Pecheneg, Oğuz, and Cuman Turkic tribes. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The Turkish community became an ethnic minority when the Principality of Bulgaria was established after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 .
There is also a diaspora outside Bulgaria in countries such as Turkey, Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Romania, the most significant of which are the Bulgarian Turks in Turkey. Bulgarian Turks are the descendants of Turkish settlers who entered the region after the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans in the late 14th and early 15th ...
The medieval Bulgarian Empire had active relations with Eastern Thrace before the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans in the 14th–15th century: the area was often part of the Bulgarian state under its stronger rulers from Krum's reign on, such as Simeon I and Ivan Asen II; the city of Edirne (Adrianople, Odrin) was under Bulgarian control a number of times.
See Bulgaria–Turkey relations. Bulgaria has an embassy in Ankara, 2 general consulates in Istanbul and Edirne, and a chancellery in Bursa. [145] Turkey has an embassy in Sofia and 2 general consulates in Plovdiv and Burgas. [146] Both countries are full members of the Council of Europe and NATO. Bulgaria is an EU member and Turkey is an EU ...
Articles about Bulgarian Turks in Turkey, a community of Bulgarian Turks, who immigrated over the years from Bulgaria to Turkey.They are notable in Turkey that they managed over the years to continue to keep their linguistic and cultural connections with Bulgaria and [1] [2] [3] moreover, part of them continue to be dual citizens of Bulgaria and Turkey, which makes them a natural bridge ...
Bulgaria–Turkey border (1 C, 3 P) Bulgaria–Ottoman Empire relations (2 C, 5 P) Bulgarian people of Turkish descent (2 C, 76 P) C. Bulgarian Orthodox churches in ...