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The Banat Bulgarians (

Roman Catholic by confession and stem from groups of Paulicians (who eventually adopted Catholicism) and Roman Catholics from modern northern and northwestern Bulgaria.[5]

Banat Bulgarians speak a distinctive codified form of the Eastern Bulgarian vernacular with much lexical influence from the other languages of the Banat. Although strongly acculturated to the Pannonian region (remote from Bulgaria's mainland), they have preserved their Bulgarian identity;[6] however, they consider themselves Bulgarians among other ethnic groups but self-identify as Paulicians when compared to ethnic Bulgarians.[4][5]

Identity

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 contrasted to "you" of Bulgarian ethnonym (being exonym). Their Bulgarian identification is inconsistent and rather used when compared to other ethnic groups.

Cyrillic alphabet. In the 1990s was again argued if they are a distinctive group or part of Bulgarian national, cultural and linguistic unity. On the other part, in Serbia the community was not in touch with such political influence and was accepted Paulician ethnonym, and only since 1990s became more in contact with other Bulgarian communities and institutions. According to 1999 research by Nyagulov, the people consider themselves to be partly of Bulgarian ethnos, but not on an individual level, only as a community, which is characterized by Catholic faith, specific literature and language practice as well as elements of traditional material heritage and spiritual culture.[5]

History

Origin and migration north of the Danube

The origin of the Bulgarian Roman Catholic community is related to the

Roman Catholic Bosnian Franciscans in the late 16th and early 17th century managed to convert them to Catholicism.[5][7] It is believed that the Banat Bulgarian community was formed from two groups in different regions; one from missionary activities of the Roman Catholic Church in the 17th century among merchants and artisans from Chiprovtsi, not only of Paulician origin as included "Saxon" miners among others,[8][9] and other from Paulician peasants of villages from Svishtov and Nikopol municipalities.[5]

In 1688, the members of the community organized the unsuccessful

civil rights and tax exemption.[13]

After Oltenia was occupied by

Maria Theresa of Austria again confirmed their privileges received in Oltenia.[18]

Austrian and Hungarian rule

Around a hundred Paulicians from the region of

Konak and Stari Lec (1820), Belo Blato (1825), Bréšća, Dénta, and Banatski Dvor (1842), Telepa (1846), Skorenovac (1866), and Ivanovo (1866-1868).[16][20]

After they settled, the Banat Bulgarians began to take care of their

Ausgleich of 1867, the Hungarian authorities gradually intensified the Magyarization of the Banat. Until World War I, they imposed Hungarian as the main language of education.[22]

Interwar Romanian and Serbian Banat

After World War I, Austria-Hungary was dissolved and Banat was divided between Romania and Serbia. Most Banat Bulgarians became citizens of the Kingdom of Romania, but many fell inside the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In Greater Romania, the Banat Bulgarians' identity was distinguished in censuses and statistics.[23] The main language of education was changed to Romanian and the Bulgarian schools were nationalized. A Romanian geography book of 1931 describes the Bulgarians in the county of Timiș-Torontal as "foreigners", and their national dress as "not as beautiful" as the Romanian one,[24] but in general the Banat Bulgarians were more favourably treated than the larger Eastern Orthodox Bulgarian minority in interwar Romania.[25]

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia denied the existence of any Bulgarian minority, whether in the Vardar Banovina, the Western Outlands, or the Banat. Official post-World War I statistics provide no data about the number of the Banat Bulgarians.[26] In comparison with the Eastern Orthodox Bulgarians in Yugoslavia, the Banat Bulgarians were treated better by the Yugoslav authorities,[27] although Serbo-Croatian was the only language of education.[28]

In the 1930s, the Banat Bulgarians in Romania entered a period of cultural revival led by figures such as Ivan Fermendžin, Anton Lebanov, and Karol Telbis (Telbizov).[29] These new cultural leaders emphasized the Bulgarian identity at the expense of the identification as Paulicians and Roman Catholics, establishing contacts with the Bulgarian government and other Bulgarian communities in Romania, particularly that in Dobruja. The organs of this revival were the newspaper Banatsći balgarsći glasnić (Banat Bulgarian Voice),[29] issued between 1935 and 1943, and the annual Banatsći balgarsći kalendar (Banat Bulgarian Calendar), issued from 1936 to 1940. There was a plan to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the settlement in the Banat which was the most significant manifestation by Banat Bulgarians in that period. It was partially spoiled by the Romanian authorities, but still attracted much attention among intellectuals in Bulgaria.[30] The Bulgarian Agrarian Party, a section of the National Peasants' Party, was founded in 1936 on the initiative of Karol Telbizov and Dr. Karol Manjov of Stár Bišnov,[31] with Petar Telbisz as its chairman,[32] and the Bulgarian National Society in the Banat, also headed by Telbisz, was established in 1939.

Bulgaria and Yugoslavia improved their relations in the 1930s, leading to indirect recognition of the Banat Bulgarian minority by the Yugoslav government. Still, the Banat Bulgarian revival was much less perceivable in the Serbian Banat. The Banat Bulgarian population in Yugoslavia was only partially affected by the work of Telbizov, Lebanov, and the other cultural workers in the Romanian Banat.[33]

Emigration to Hungary, the United States and Bulgaria

Some Banat Bulgarians migrated again, mainly to Hungary and the

National Assembly, such as Petar Dobroslav, whose son László Dobroslav (László Bolgár) was a diplomat, and Georgi Velčov.[36]

During the Interwar period, the Banat Bulgarian communities in Romania were among those experiencing the greatest emigration to the US, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s.[37] An organized Bulgarian community was established in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, where the Banat Bulgarians were mostly farmers.[38]

A significant number of Banat Bulgarians returned to Bulgaria since 1878, called as "Banaćani" ("those from Banat").

Ilfov.[39] This migration would be final, although some did return to Banat.[5]

World War II and later

Location of the main Banat Bulgarian villages in Bulgaria

On the eve of World War II, the authoritarian regime of Carol II of Romania and the fascist government under Ion Antonescu widely discriminated against the Bulgarian minority in the Romanian Banat. Bulgarians were often deprived of property and land, subjected to anti-Bulgarian propaganda, and their villages had to shelter Romanian and Aromanian refugees from Northern Transylvania and Southern Dobruja.[40]

In May 1941, the Bulgarians in the Romanian Banat contributed to the release of ethnic Bulgarian prisoners of war from the

Axis, from a camp near Timișoara. Communicating with the Bulgarian state, Banat Bulgarian leaders headed by Anton Lebanov negotiated the prisoners' release and transportation to Bulgaria, after the example of the release of captured Hungarian soldiers from the Yugoslav Army. They temporarily accommodated these Bulgarians from Vardar Macedonia and the Serbian Banat and provided them with food until they could be taken to Bulgaria.[41]

The Serbian Banat was conquered by Nazi Germany on 12 April 1941, and was occupied for much of the war.[42] In late 1942, the German authorities allowed Bulgarian minority classes to be created in the Serbian schools in Ivanovo, Skorenovac, Konak, Belo Blato, and Jaša Tomić.[43] However, the sudden change in the war and German withdrawal from the Banat forced education in Bulgarian to be discontinued after the 1943–44 school year.[44]

After the war, Banat Bulgarians in Romania and Yugoslavia were ruled by communist regimes. In the Romanian Banat, some were deported in the Bărăgan deportations in 1951, but most of those were allowed to return in 1956–57.[45] A Bulgarian school was founded in Dudeștii Vechi in 1948, and in Vinga in 1949. Others followed in Breștea, Colonia Bulgară, and Denta, but these were briefly closed or united with the Romanian schools after 1952, and Bulgarian remained an optional subject.[46]

The

Bulgarian Union of the Banat — Romania (Balgarskotu družstvu ud Banát — Rumanija), led formerly by Karol-Matej Ivánčov and as of 2008 by Nikola Mirkovič,[47] and Bulgarian remained an optional subject in the schools.[48] In post-war Yugoslavia, the existence of a Banat Bulgarian minority was formally recognized, but they were not given the same rights as the larger Bulgarian minority in eastern Serbia. Unlike other minorities in Vojvodina, they were not allowed education in their mother tongue, only Serbo-Croatian.[49]

Language

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    Banat Bulgarian language

    The vernacular of the Bulgarians of Banat can be classified as a Paulician dialect of the Eastern Bulgarian group. A typical feature is the "ы" (*y) vowel, which can either take an etymological place or replace "i".[2] Other characteristic phonological features are the "ê" (wide "e") reflex of the Old Church Slavonic yat and the reduction of "o" into "u" and sometimes "e" into "i": puljé instead of pole ("field"), sélu instead of selo ("village"), ugništi instead of ognište ("fireplace").[2] Another characteristic feature is the palatalization of final consonants, which is typical for other Slavic languages, but found only in non-standard dialects in Bulgarian (Bulgarian den ("day") sounds like and is written as denj).[50]

    Lexically, the language has borrowed many words from languages such as

    family name followed by given name) and the female ending "-a" is often dropped from family names. Thus, Marija Velčova would become Velčov Marija.[54] Besides loanwords, the lexis of Banat Bulgarian has also acquired calques and neologisms, such as svetica ("icon", formerly used ikona and influenced by German Heiligenbild), zarno ("bullet", from the word meaning "grain"), oganbalváč ("volcano", literally "fire belcher"), and predhurta ("foreword").[50]

    The Banat Bulgarian language until the mid-19th century used

    Gaj's Latin Alphabet), and preserves many features that are archaic in the language spoken in Bulgaria. The language was codified as early as 1866 and is used in literature and press, which distinguishes it from plain dialects.[50]

    Alphabet

    The following is the Banat Bulgarian Latin alphabet:[55][56]

    Banat Bulgarian Latin
    Cyrillic equivalents
    IPA
    Ъ

    /ɤ/
    А

    /a/
    Б

    /b/
    Ц

    /t͡s/
    Ч

    /t͡ʃ/
    Ќ
     (кь)
    /c/
    Д

    /d/
    Ѕ
     (дз)
    /d͡z/
    Џ
     (дж)
    /d͡ʒ/
    Е

    /ɛ/    		 É é
    Ѣ
    /e/
    Latin
    Cyrillic
    IPA
    Ф

    /f/
    Г

    /ɡ/
    Ѓ
     (гь)
    /ɟ/
    Х

    /h/
    И

    /i/
    Ь

    /j/
    К

    /k/
    Л

    /l/
    Љ
     (ль)
    /ʎ/
    М

    /m/
    Н

    /n/
    Latin
    Cyrillic
    IPA
    Њ
     (нь)
    /ɲ/
    О

    /ɔ/
    П

    /p/
    Р

    /r/
    С

    /s/
    Ш

    /ʃ/
    Т

    /t/
    У

    /u/
    В

    /v/
    З

    /z/
    Ж

    /ʒ/

    Examples

    The Lord's Prayer in Banat Bulgarian:[57]
    Banat Bulgarian Literary Bulgarian [58] English
    Baštá náš, kojtu si na nebeto: Imetu ti da se pusveti. Отче наш, който си на небесата, да се свети името Твое, Our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name.
    Kraljéstvotu ti da dodi. Olete ti da badi, да дойде царството Твое, да бъде волята Твоя, Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,
    kaćétu na nebeto taj i na zemete. както на небето така и на земята. as in heaven so on earth.
    Kátadenjšnija leb náš, dáj mu nám dnés. Хляба наш насъщен дай ни днес, Give us this day our daily bread.
    I uprusti mu nám náša dalgj, и прости нам дълговете наши, And forgive us guilty as we are,
    kaćétu i nija upráštemi na nášte dlažnici. както и ние прощаваме на длъжниците ни, as we also forgive our debtors.
    I nide mu uvižde u nápas, и не въведи ни в изкушение, Also do not bring us into temptation,
    negu mu izbávej ud zlo. но избави ни от лукавия, But free us from this evil.
    • Inscription about bishop Nikola Stanislavič in the Dudeștii Vechi church
      Inscription about
      bishop
      Nikola Stanislavič in the Dudeștii Vechi church
    • Bilingual Banat Bulgarian (written in Latin letters)-Romanian plaque in Vinga
      Bilingual Banat Bulgarian (written in Latin letters)-Romanian plaque in Vinga
    • A rare occasion of Banat Bulgarian written in Cyrillic letters in Gostilya, Bulgaria
      A rare occasion of Banat Bulgarian written in Cyrillic letters in Gostilya, Bulgaria

    Culture

    Banat Bulgarians have engaged in literary activity since they settled in the Banat. Their earliest preserved literary work is the historical record Historia Domus (Historia Parochiae Oppidi Ó-Bessenyö, in Diocesi Czanadiensi, Comitatu Torontalensi), written in Latin in the 1740s. The codification of the Banat Bulgarian vernacular in 1866 enabled the release of a number of school books and the translation of several important religious works in the mid-19th century.[59] There was a literary revival in the 1930s, centered around the Banatsći balgarsći glasnić newspaper. Today, the Bulgarian Union of the Banat – Romania issues the biweekly newspaper Náša glás and the monthly magazine Literaturna miselj.[60] The regional television station TVR Timișoara airs a monthly programme in the Banat Bulgarian language.[61]

    The music of the Banat Bulgarians is classed as a separate branch of Bulgarian folk music, with several verbal and musical peculiarities. While the typically Bulgarian

    Bulgarian Christmas carols have been superseded by urban-type songs. Roman Catholicism has exerted considerable influence, eliminating certain types of songs and replacing them with others.[62] Similarly, Banat Bulgarians have preserved many Bulgarian holidays but also adopted others from other Roman Catholic peoples.[63] One of the most popular holidays is Faršángji, or the Carnival.[64] In terms of dances, Banat Bulgarians have also heavily borrowed from the neighbouring peoples, for example Hungarian csárdás.[62]

    The women's national costume of the Banat Bulgarians has two varieties. The costume of Vinga is reminiscent of those of sub-Balkan cities in Bulgaria; the one of Stár Bišnov is characteristic of northwestern Bulgaria. The Vinga costume has been particularly influenced by the dress of Hungarians and Germans, but the Stár Bišnov costume has remained more conservative.[65] The Banat Bulgarian women's costume is perceived as particularly impressive with its crown-like headdress.[62]

    • A formal Banat Bulgarian female costume dating to the 19th century
      A formal Banat Bulgarian female costume dating to the 19th century
    • Historia Domus, the earliest chronicle of the Banat Bulgarians
      Historia Domus, the earliest chronicle of the Banat Bulgarians
    • Liturgy in the Bulgarian church in Dudeștii Vechi
      Liturgy in the Bulgarian church in Dudeștii Vechi

    Demography

    The Banat Bulgarian Roman Catholic church in Bardarski Geran, Bulgaria
    The Roman Catholic Church in Vinga, Romania
    Ivanovo, Serbia

    In 1963 was estimated that approximately lived 18,000 Banat Bulgarians in Banat, of which 12,000 in Romanian, and 6,000 in Serbian part of the region. In 2008 was estimated half of the previous population in Serbia,[2][5] while in 2013 between 4,000-4,500 people.[3] However, according to Romanian 2002 census circa 6,468 people of Banat Bulgarian origin inhabited the Romanian part of the region,[66] of which 3,000 in Stár Bišnov, making it half of 1963's estimation.[3] The Serbian 2002 census recognized 1,658 Bulgarians in Vojvodina, the autonomous province that covers the Serbian part of the Banat.[67] However it includes Orthodox Bulgarians and hence the number of Catholic Bulgarians is smaller by two-thirds compared to previous estimation.[3] The 2011 census are even more vague to understand the actual numbers, but the numbers are probably declining.[3]

    The earliest and most important centers of the Banat Bulgarian population are the villages of

    Dudeştii Vechi (Stár Bišnov) and Vinga, both today in Romania,[68]
    but notable communities also exist in Romania in
    Jaša Tomić (Modoš), Skorenovac (Gjurgevo), as well cities of Pančevo, Zrenjanin, Vršac and Kovin.[5][69]

    In Bulgaria, returning Banat Bulgarians populated the villages of Asenovo, Bardarski Geran, Dragomirovo, Gostilya, and Bregare,[10] among others, in some of which they coexist or coexisted with Banat Swabians, other Bulgarian Roman Catholics, and Eastern Orthodox Bulgarians.[70]

    In Banat, the people mainly intermarried within the group, and only since the 1940s began intensive marriages with other nationalities, because of which many got assimilated, especially according to confessional factor (among Slovaks and Hungarians, while few among Croats, Serbs and so on).[71]

    Historical population

    According to various censuses and estimates, not always accurate, the number of the Banat Bulgarians varied as follows:[72]

    Source Date Population Notes
    Romania Serbia
    Jozu Rill 1864 30,000–35,000
    Hungarian statistics 1880 18,298
    Hungarian statistics 1900 19,944
    Hungarian statistics 1910 13,536 "evidently underestimated"[69]
    Various authors second half
    of the 19th century    		 22,000–26,000 "sometimes including the Krashovani"[69]
    Romanian census 1930 10,012 Romanian Banat only
    Dimo Kazasov 1936 3,200 Serbian Banat only; estimated
    Romanian census 1939 9,951 Romanian Banat only
    Karol Telbizov 1940 12,000 Romanian Banat only; estimated
    Mihail Georgiev 1942 up to 4,500 Serbian Banat only; estimated[73]
    Romanian census 1956 12,040 Romania only[74]
    Yugoslav census 1971 3,745 Serbian Banat only[75]
    Romanian census 1977 9,267 Romania only[74]
    Romanian census 2002 6,486 Romania only[1]
    Serbian census 2002 1,658 Serbia only[76]

    Notable figures

    See also

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    43. ^ ЦДА, ф. 166к, оп. 1, а.е. 503, л. 130-130а.
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