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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 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 ...
They have been instrumental in transmitting even the national feelings of the older, pro-Bulgarian oriented immigrants from Macedonia. Most of the American-born people of Macedonian-Bulgarian descent had little knowledge of Bulgaria and increasingly have identified during the second half of the 20th century simply as Macedonians.
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.
Bulgarians (Bulgarian: българи, romanized: bŭlgari, IPA: [ˈbɤɫɡɐri]) are a nation and South Slavic [57] [58] [59] ethnic group native to Bulgaria and its neighbouring region, who share a common Bulgarian ancestry, culture, history and language.
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 ...
Bulgarisation (Bulgarian: българизация), also known as Bulgarianisation (Bulgarian: побългаряване) is the spread of Bulgarian culture beyond the Bulgarian ethnic space. Historically, unsuccessful assimilation efforts in Bulgaria were primarily directed at Muslims, most notably Bulgarian Turks , but non-Islamic groups ...
The history of Bulgaria can be traced from the first settlements on the lands of modern Bulgaria to its formation as a nation-state, and includes the history of the Bulgarian people and their origin. The earliest evidence of hominid occupation discovered in what is today Bulgaria date from at least 1.4 million years ago. [1]