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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 ...
Thracians [1] or Thracian Bulgarians [2] (Bulgarian: Тракийски българи or Тракийци) are a regional, ethnographic group of ethnic Bulgarians, inhabiting or native to Thrace. Today, the larger part of this population is concentrated in Northern Thrace , but much is spread across the whole of Bulgaria and the diaspora .
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]
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 ...
Bulgarians are the main ethnic group in Bulgaria, according to the census of the population in 2024 they are 7,000,000 people, or 86% of the country's population. [ 1 ] Number and share
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 ...
Rather there exists a genetic gradient, running mostly in a southeast to northwest direction. A study compared all Slavic nations and combined all lines of evidence, autosomal, maternal and paternal, including more than 6000 people for and at least 700 Bulgarians from previous studies, of which 13 were used for autosomal analysis (right image).
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 ...