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The main ethnic elements which blended to produce the modern Bulgarian ethnicity are: Thracians – a native ancient Balkan Indo-European people who left a cultural and genetic legacy. [ 65 ] [ 66 ] [ 67 ] Approximately 55% of Bulgarian autosomal genetic legacy is of Paleo-Balkan and Mediterranean origin and can be attributed to Thracian and ...
While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or religious factors for classification. Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups, which ...
Dominant ethnicities in Bulgaria in 2011. Bulgaria enumerated people by mother tongue in 1880 and 1887 and used this info to determine their ethnicities. [91] Bulgaria directly enumerated people by ethnicity from 1900 all the way up to its most recent census in 2011, with the exception of the 1985 census. [92]
There are considerable differences in the share of illiterate persons amongst the three main ethnic groups. Amongst the Bulgarian ethnic group the share of illiterate is 0.5%, amongst the Turkish - 4.7% and amongst the Roma ethnic group - 11.8%. [89] About 81 thousand people aged seven or more never visited school. [90]
Municipalities where Bulgarians represent a majority of the population, according to the census of the population in 2011 (red color). Places where Bulgarians represent a majority of the population, according to the census of the population in 2011 (purple color). Number and share of Bulgarians according to the census over the years: [2]
Some 100,000 Bulgarian troops are killed, one of the most severe per capita losses of any country involved in the war. 1939-45 World War Two: Soviet army invades German-occupied Bulgaria in 1944 ...
Historical contribution of donor source groups in European peoples according to Hellenthal et al., (2014). Polish is selected to represent Slavic-speaking donor groups from the Middle Ages that are estimated to make up 97% of the ancestry in Belarusians, 80% in Russians, 55% in Bulgarians, 54% in Hungarians, 48% in Romanians, 46% in Chuvash and 30% in Greeks.
Macedonian Bulgarians (5 C, 181 P) P. Pomaks (4 C, 11 P) T. Thracian Bulgarians (11 C, 21 P) Pages in category "Bulgarian people by ethnographic region"