Thracian Bulgarians
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Thracians
Until the beginning of the twentieth century the Thracian Bulgarians were scattered in the whole of
The last flow of Thracian refugees into Bulgaria was as the Bulgarian Army pulled out of the Serres-Drama region in late 1944.[4]
With the accession of Bulgaria into the European Union, Bulgarian authorities appear to revisit the issue as a precondition for Turkey's membership to the Union.[5]
Some Thracian Bulgarians still live in East Thrace in Turkey, descended from the people and families who converted to Islam in order to stay and avoid being deported during the Destruction of the Thracian Bulgarians in 1913.[6]
See also
- Bulgarians
- The Destruction of Thracian Bulgarians in 1913
- Internal Thracian Revolutionary Organisation
References
- ^ The Thracian and His World. Proceedings of the eighth National Conference of Bulgarian Ethnologists, Haskovo 1995. Sofia, 1 Publication: ETHNOLOGIA BULGARICA. Yearbook of Bulgarian Ethnology and Folklore (2/2001), Stamenova, Jivka; Language: English Subject: Anthropology, Issue: 2/2001, Page Range: 141-143
- ^ Groups of Bulgarian population and ethnographic groups, Bulgarian Ethnology (March 1987), Simeonova, Gatya; Language: Bulgarian, Subject: Anthropology, Issue: 3/1987, Page Range: 55-63.
- ^ V, Joseph. The Communist Party of Bulgaria; Origins and Development, 1883-1936. Columbia University Press. p. 126.
- ^ Migrattsionni protsesi v Bŭlgariiia sled Vtorata svetovna voina, Boika Vasileva, Univ. izd-vo "Sv. Kliment Okhridski", 1991, str. 138-146.
- ^ Bulgaria: Bulgaria Backs Thrace Refugees in Claiming Compensations from Turkey - Sofia News Agency
- ^ "Tukrish attrocities committed against Thracian Bulgarians. Dr Lyubomir Miletic on the ruin of the Thracian Bulgarians in 1913".