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  2. Bulgarians - Wikipedia

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    Bulgarians as well as Albanians nod the head up and down to indicates "no" and shake to indicate "yes". They may wear the martenitsa (мартеница)—an adornment made of white and red yarn and worn on the wrist or pinned on the clothes—from 1 March until the end of the month. Alternatively, one can take off the martenitsa earlier if ...

  3. Music of Bulgaria - Wikipedia

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    One of the most distinctive features of Bulgarian folk music is the complexity of its rhythms in comparison to Western music. Although it uses Western meters such as 2 4, 3 4, and 4 4, Bulgarian music also includes meters with odd numbers of beats per measure, sometimes called asymmetric meters. These can be understood as combinations of groups ...

  4. Chalga - Wikipedia

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    Chalga (Bulgarian: чалга; often referred to as pop-folk, short for "popular folk" or ethno-pop, short for "ethnic pop") [2] [3] is a Bulgarian pop-folk music genre. Chalga or pop-folk is essentially a folk-inspired dance music genre, [4] with a blend of Bulgarian music (Bulgarian ethno-pop genre) [5] and also primary influences from Greek, Serbian, Turkish and Arabic, as well as American ...

  5. Slavs - Wikipedia

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    The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages.Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Northern Asia, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, [1] [2] and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the ...

  6. Culture of Bulgaria - Wikipedia

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    Bulgarian folk costume A decorated horse, prepared for a race. Horseraces take place each year to mark Todorovden (St. Theodore's day). Bulgarians often give each other a martenitsa (мартеница) — an adornment made of white and red yarn and worn on the wrist or pinned on the clothes — from March 1 until the end of the month ...

  7. Bulgars - Wikipedia

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    According to linguist and academician Albina G. Khayrullina-Valieva Bulgar language was the first fully proved Turkic language that came into direct contact with South Slavs. [200] The Danubian Bulgars were unable to alter the predominantly Slavic character of Bulgaria, [ 201 ] seen in the toponymy and names of the capitals Pliska and Preslav ...

  8. Music of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    hide This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Music of Brazil" – news · newspapers · books ...

  9. Macedonians (ethnic group) - Wikipedia

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    Bulgarian cartographer Anastas Ishirkov countered Cvijić's views, pointing to the involvement of Macedonian Slavs in Bulgarian nationalist uprisings and the Macedonian origins of Bulgarian nationalists before 1878. Although Cvijic's arguments attracted the attention of Great Powers, they did not endorse at the time his view on the Macedo-Slavs.