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Bulgarians are a South Slavic people from southeast Europe. There are around 7.3 million Bulgarian nationals. The Bulgarians speak the Bulgarian language and most of them live in Bulgaria. There is also a large diaspora of Bulgarians in Germany, Ukraine, Spain, UK and USA.

Culture

Language

The Bulgarian language is a South Slavic language that is very similar to the Macedonian language. It is spoken by around 9 million people. There are some notable differences in the Bulgarian language that set it apart from other Slavic languages. For example, Bulgarian lost almost all of the noun cases. The language also developed a definite article.

The Bulgarian language is written with the Cyrillic script. The Cyrillic script was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire, and is now used in 12 other languages.

Religion

Bulgarian Orthodoxy has been the prominent religion in Bulgaria since 870 AD. There are also a small amount of Bulgarians who converted to Islam during Ottoman rule.

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Bulgarian folk dancers in a national costume.

Images for kids

  • 05 633 Book illustrations of Historical description of the clothes and weapons of Russian troops

    Officers from Bulgarian hussar regiment in Russia (1776–1783)

  • Ocslavonic

    Cyrillic alphabet of the medieval Old Bulgarian language

  • Bulgarian-Exarchate-1870-1913

    Map of the Bulgarian Exarchate (1870–1913). The Ottomans required a threshold of two thirds of positive votes of the Orthodox population to include a region into this jurisdiction.

  • Кукери

    Kukeri from the area of Burgas

  • Lazarki from Gabra

    Girls celebrating Lazaruvane from Gabrа, Sofia Province

  • VolkBalk-1908

    Map of A. Scobel, Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas, 1908

  • The Balkan Peninsula, Distribution of Races. EB 1911

    Distribution of the Balkan peoples in 1911, Encyclopædia Britannica

  • Ethnicturkey1911

    Ethnic groups in the Balkans and Asia Minor by William R. Shepherd, 1911

  • Ethnic map (1914)

    Distribution of European peoples in 1914 according to L. Ravenstein

  • Carte Ethnographique de L'Europe

    Swiss ethnographic map of Europe published in 1918 by Juozas Gabrys

  • Mother language in 1965 Turkey census - Pomak

    Percentage of Pomaks by first language according to the 1965 Census excluding Bulgarian

  • Odeska2001bulgarians

    Distribution of Bulgarians in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine according to the 2001 census

  • Zaporizka2001bolgarian

    Distribution of Bulgarians by first language in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine according to the 2001 census

  • Ethnic composition of Bulgaria, 2011

    Distribution of predominant ethnic groups in Bulgaria according to the 2011 census

  • Bulgari Romania (2002)

    Distribution of Bulgarians in Romania according to the 2002 census

  • Ponderea bulgarilor în Republica Moldova la nivel de comune

    Distribution of Bulgarians in Moldova according to the 2004 census

See also

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