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In Bulgaria, the local Romanians are commonly referred to as "Vlachs". This term is also applied to the Aromanians of the country, [ 3 ] as well as to Romanian-speaking Boyash Gypsies . [ 4 ] The German linguist Gustav Weigand dealt in the most detailed and concrete way with the Vlach population south of the Danube.
According to the 2011 census of the population of Bulgaria, there are 325,343 Romani in Bulgaria, [1] or 4.4 percent. 180,266 of these are urban residents and 145,077 rural. [ 61 ] Most of the Roma, 66%, are young children and adults up to 29 years old, the same group constitutes 37% among ethnic Bulgarians, while 5% of Roma are 60 years and ...
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Romani music plays an important role in central and eastern European countries such as Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania, and the style and performance practices of Romani musicians have influenced European classical composers such as Franz Liszt and ...
During the 19th century, the idea of federalization was on the minds of both Romanians and Bulgarians. Romanians wanted to accomplish the independence, liberation and unification of the Romanian nation [14] from the Habsburg (or Austrian or Austro-Hungarian), Russian [22] and Ottoman empires, [23] and some thought of using this idea to achieve these aims.
The population exchange between Bulgaria and Romania was a population exchange carried out in 1940 after the transfer of Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria by Romania. It involved 103,711 Romanians , Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians living in Southern Dobruja and 62,278 Bulgarians from Northern Dobruja .
Ethnic and religious makeup of Southern Dobruja as of 1930. The Treaty of Craiova finally crystallized in a return to the 1912 borders. The southern part of the Dobruja, which had been conquered by Romania during the Second Balkan War, [2] was returned to Bulgaria and assumed for Romania the loss of a territory with an area of 7,142 km 2 (2,758 sq mi) and a population of which ethnic Romanians ...
A Romanian geography book of 1931 describes the Bulgarians in the county of Timiș-Torontal as "foreigners", and their national dress as "not as beautiful" as the Romanian one, [24] but in general the Banat Bulgarians were more favourably treated than the larger Eastern Orthodox Bulgarian minority in interwar Romania. [25]