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The Romanians of Bulgaria have several organizations of their own, one of them being the AVE Union of Romanian Ethnicities of Bulgaria (AVE Uniunea Etnicilor Români din Bulgaria), presided by Ivo Gheorghiev, which often organizes cultural events. [6] One example are celebrations for the Romanian Language Day organized in Vidin by this ...
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.
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 ...
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 .
Bulgarian–Romanian relations are foreign relations between Bulgaria and Romania. Bulgaria has an embassy in Bucharest. Romania has an embassy in Sofia and three honorary consulates (in Burgas, Silistra and Vidin). There are 7,336 Bulgarians who are living in Romania and around 4,575 Romanians living in Bulgaria. The countries share 608 km of ...
The population of undisputed Bulgarian origin aside, Bulgarian researchers also claim that the Hungarian minority of the Székely in central Romania is of Magyarized Bulgar (Proto-Bulgarian) origin [2] [6] and the Șchei of Transylvania were Romanianized Bulgarians [2] [7] (a view also supported by Lyubomir Miletich [8] and accepted by Romanian ...
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]