Northern Thrace
Northern Thrace or North Thrace (
The climate ranges from subtropical to transitional continental and mountainous. The highest temperature recorded in Bulgaria occurred here: it was 45.2 °C (113.4 °F; 318.3 K) at Sadovo in 1916. The main rivers of the region are the Maritsa and its tributaries. Notable cities include Plovdiv, Burgas, Stara Zagora, Sliven, Haskovo, Yambol, Pazardzhik, Asenovgrad, Kardzhali, Dimitrovgrad, Kazanlak and Smolyan. Northern Thrace has an area of 42,073 km2.
The Ottoman Empire created the autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia in Northern Thrace in 1878. The region was annexed by the Principality of Bulgaria in 1885.[1]
Demographics
The ethnic composition of the population of Eastern Rumelia.
| Ethnic group | census 1880 | census 1884 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | |
| Bulgarians | 573,560 | 70.3% | 681,734 | 70.0% |
| Turks | 174,700 | 21.4% | 200,489 | 20.6% |
| Greeks | 42,456 | 5.2% | 53,028 | 5.4% |
| Roma (Gypsies) | 19,149 | 2.3% | 27,190 | 2.8% |
| Jews | 4,177 | 0.5% | 6,982 | 0.7% |
| Armenians | 1,306 | 0.1% | 1,865 | 0.2% |
| Total | 815,951 | 975,030 | ||
The population's ethnic composition in the Bulgarian provinces of Burgas, Haskovo, Kardzhali, Pazardzhik, Plovdiv, Sliven, Smolyan, Stara Zagora and Yambol.
| Ethnic group | census 2001 | census 2011 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | |
| Bulgarians | 2,247,532 | 80.94% | 1,856,647 | 72.91% |
| Turks | 315,858 | 11.37% | 258,757 | 10.16% |
| Roma (Gypsies) | 155,954 | 5.62% | 141,538 | 5.56% |
| Russians | 5,185 | 0.19% | 16,538 | 0.65% |
| Armenians | 5,163 | 0.19% | ||
| Greeks | 1,432 | 0.05% | ||
| Jews | 253 | 0.01% | ||
| Others | 8,473 | 0.31% | ||
| Undeclared | 36,958 | 1.33% | 273,151 | 10.73% |
| Total | 2,776,808 | 2,546,631 | ||
See also
- Eastern Thrace
- Western Thrace
References
- ISBN 0-313-32111-6, p. 1518.
42°15′00″N 26°00′00″E / 42.2500°N 26.0000°E
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