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The medieval Bulgarian Empire had active relations with Eastern Thrace before the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans in the 14th–15th century: the area was often part of the Bulgarian state under its stronger rulers from Krum's reign on, such as Simeon I and Ivan Asen II; the city of Edirne (Adrianople, Odrin) was under Bulgarian control a number of times.
In the Second World War that soon followed, Turkey remained neutral, while Bulgaria cooperated with the Axis powers. After the end of the war, Bulgaria became a Soviet satellite state and part of the Warsaw Pact as the People's Republic of Bulgaria, while Turkey pursued a pro-Western foreign policy and joined NATO. [1]
[4] [5] It has also been suggested that some Turks living today in Bulgaria may be direct ethnic descendants of earlier medieval Pecheneg, Oğuz, and Cuman Turkic tribes. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The Turkish community became an ethnic minority when the Principality of Bulgaria was established after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 .
There is also a diaspora outside Bulgaria in countries such as Turkey, Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Romania, the most significant of which are the Bulgarian Turks in Turkey. Bulgarian Turks are the descendants of Turkish settlers who entered the region after the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans in the late 14th and early 15th ...
Bulgarian sources argue that the Gagauz are Turkified Bulgarians because most of the Gagauz people in Bulgaria consider themselves natives ("Erli"). [24] According to this theory, the Gagauz are either direct descendants of the Medieval Bulgars , or of Slavic origin, being no different than the rest of the Bulgarians, before the Turkic language ...
The Anatolian Bulgarians or Bulgarians of Asia Minor (Bulgarian: малоазийски българи, maloazijski bǎlgari, or shortly, малоазианци, maloazianci) were members of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church who settled in Ottoman-ruled northwestern Anatolia (today in Turkey), possibly in the 18th century, and remained there until 1914.
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