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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]
Bulgarian people by ethnographic region (5 C, 4 P) A. Aromanians (11 C, 6 P) Aromanians in Bulgaria (2 C, 2 P) B. ... Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Bulgaria"
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, another part – Turkish ethnic identity. During the 20th century the Pomaks in Bulgaria were the subject of three state-sponsored forced assimilation campaigns – in 1912, the 1940s and the ...
Bulgarian Muslims do not represent a homogenous community and have a multitude of ethnic and religious identities. A clear majority of them (127,350 [7] according to the latest census in 2001) declare themselves to be ethnic Bulgarians of Islamic faith
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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 .