* The Holocaust in Macedonia, 1941-1945 7, 000 Jews were deported from Bulgarian annexed Macedonia.

According to Dr. Marinova-Christidi the main reason for the efforts of Bulgarian people to save the Bulgarian Jews during WWII is Bulgaria's history of “ co-existed for centuries with other religions ”-giving it a unique multi-cultural and multi-ethnic history.

Initially, the Bulgarian government, which he controlled, utilized Swiss diplomatic channels to inquire whether possible deportations of the Jews can happen to British-controlled Palestine by ships rather than to concentration camps in Poland by trains, for which the Germans requested a significant amount of money.

The United States Congress proclaimed King Boris III savior of fifty thousand Bulgarian Jews on 12 May 1994.

Over the first decades after liberation, with the departure of most ethnic Turks and Greeks and the arrival of Bulgarians from inland, Northern Dobruja, Bessarabia, and Asia Minor, and later, of refugees from Macedonia, Eastern Thrace and Southern Dobruja following the Second Balkan War and the First World War, ethnic diversity gave way to Bulgarian predominance, although sizeable minorities of Gagauz, Armenians, and Sephardic Jews remained for decades.

T1b * has been observed at low frequencies in the Bulgarian and Ashkenazi Jews as well as in a few Levantine populations.

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Bulgarian soldiers led by foot and freight trains all the 4, 000 Jews in Thrace, including the 589 from Drama, into Bulgarian territory and assembled them in the tobacco warehouses that were empty this time of year.

* A Yellow Star of David Button, Which the Bulgarian Jews were Forced to Wear in 1941 with the Onset of the German Occupation from the Yad Vashem artifacts collection

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( For more information see F. B. Chary, The Bulgarian Jews and the Final Solution ) In June 1944, at which time the Axis war effort was rapidly deteriorating, Bozhilov resigned as prime minister and returned to the Bulgarian National Bank, once again becoming its governor.

Category: Bulgarian Jews

Category: Bulgarian Jews

In his book about the geography of Macedonia ( Материали по изучаванието на Македония, София 1896 ) Gyorche Petrov describes the Slavic people in Macedonia as Bulgarian and considers the term " Macedonians " as regional belonging, explaining that the Macedonian population consists of Bulgarians, Turks, Arnauts, Vlachs, Jews and Gypsies.

The text describes " Metropolitan Kyril " in 1943 confronting the captors of Bulgarian Jews slated to be deported.

Category: Bulgarian Jews

Category: Bulgarian Jews

During the Bulgarian occupation, the Bulgarians ( Nazi allies ) arrested 863 Jews and sent them to the concentration camp of Treblinka where they were exterminated ( 28 survived the Holocaust ).

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Ivan Alexander's rule was also marked by efforts to strengthen the position of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church by pursuing heretics and Jews.

The socialist movement in Thessaloniki ( present Northern Greece ) during the last decade of the Ottoman Empire was divided across ethnic lines between the Sephardi Jews ( who formed the majority of the population ), the Bulgarian and Macedonian Slavs and the Greeks, but all groups united when it came to election time.

The Glagolitic alphabet is believed to have been created by Saints Cyril and Methodius, while the Cyrillic alphabet was invented by the Bulgarian scholar Clement of Ohrid, who was their disciple.

) a total of 12 battalions of opalchentsi who participated in the Liberation war, formed the Bulgarian armed forces.

The 261 Frenchmen who survived were captured by Bulgarian soldiers.

Estimates of the number of people around the world who speak Bulgarian fluently range from about 9 million to 12 million.

The Bulgarian unit that entered Thessaloniki turned out to be a 48, 000-strong division instead of the battalion, something which caused concern among the Greeks, who viewed it as a Bulgarian attempt to establish a condominium over the city.

The Serbian army resisted the sudden night attack, while most of soldiers did not even know who they are fighting with, as Bulgarian camps were located next to Serbs and were considered allies.

His older brother was William Frank Thompson ( 1919 – 1944 ), a British officer in World War II, who was captured and shot aiding the Bulgarian anti-fascist partisans.

The Bulgarian monarch, who had further irritated his Byzantine counterpart by claiming the title " Emperor of the Romans " ( basileus tōn Rōmaiōn ), was eventually recognized, as " Emperor of the Bulgarians " ( basileus tōn Boulgarōn ) by the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos in 924.

It should be noted that after Bulgaria obtained full independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1908, its monarch, who was previously styled " Knyaz ", i. e. Prince, took the traditional title of " Tsar " which in Bulgarian means King and was recognized internationally as such.

In 2010, bones were discovered in the ruins of a Bulgarian church and two years later, after DNA and radio carbon testing proved the bones belonged to a Middle Eastern man who lived in the first century AD, scientists said that the remains could conceivably have belonged to John the Baptist.

The release, in 2007, of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, who had been held since 1999, charged with conspiring to deliberately infect over 400 children with HIV, was seen as marking a new stage in Libyan-Western relations.

Libya blamed the outbreak on five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, who were arrested and eventually sentenced to death ( eventually overturned and a new trial ordered ).

While it is often claimed that Standard Macedonian was codified on the base of those dialects ( i. e. the Prilep-Bitola dialect ) which were most unlike Bulgarian, this interpretation stems from the works of Krste Misirkov who suggested that Standard Macedonian should abstract on those dialects " most distinct from the standards of the other Slavonic languages ".

Around 680 AD the Bulgar group, led by khan Kuber ( who belonged to the same clan as the Danubian Bulgarian khan Asparukh ), settled in the Pelagonian plain, and launched campaigns to the region of Thessaloniki.

They appear to have been originally founded by some soldiers from the Second Crusade, who, on their way back, were converted by a Bulgarian sect, the Bogomils.

At this council Adrian was represented by legates who presided at the condemnation of Photius as a heretic, but did not succeed in coming to an understanding with Ignatius on the subject of jurisdiction over the Bulgarian church.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Skopje had religious leaders from diverse backgrounds, including Bosnian, Italian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Greek friars such as Giacinto Macripodari ( c. 1610 – 1672 ) who administrated from Skopje in the 17th century.

** After 45 years of Communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov, who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.

* Ottoman forces overrun the last domains of Constantine II of Bulgaria, who dies in exile at the Serbian court ; end of the Bulgarian Empire.

In the first place, Basil II guaranteed the indivisibility of Bulgaria in its former geographic borders and did not officially abolish the local rule of the Bulgarian nobility, who became part of Byzantine aristocracy as archons or strategoi.

Bulgarians who converted to Islam, the Pomaks, retained Bulgarian language, dress and some customs compatible with Islam ..

The massacres aroused a broad public reaction led by liberal Europeans such as William Ewart Gladstone, who launched a campaign against the " Bulgarian Horrors ".