About 89. 4 % of the people of Romania are ethnic Romanians, whose language, Romanian, is an Eastern Romance language, descended primarily from Latin with some Bulgarian, Serbian, German, Greek, Hungarian and Turkish borrowings.

During the Ottoman Tanzimat ( 1839 – 76 ) reforms, nationalism arose in the Empire and in 1870 a new Bulgarian Orthodox Church was established and its separate diocese was created, based on ethnic identity rather than religious principles.

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.

There are many other smaller percentages of several ethnic groups, such as Arab, French, Scottish, Greek, Russian, and Bulgarian, among others.

Different members of the group today declare a variety of ethnic identities: Bulgarian, Pomak, Muslim, Turkish, Albanian and others.

During the 20th century the Pomaks in Bulgaria were the subject of three state-supported assimilation campaigns-in 1912, the 1940s and the 1960s and 1970s which included the change of their Turkish-Arabic names to ethnic Bulgarian ones and in the first campaign conversions from Islam to Eastern Orthodoxy.

The ethnic statistics from the censuses of 1880 and 1884 show a Bulgarian majority in the province.

The academic tradition of interpretation of the wide use of the name " Vlachs " in this particular case as nothing more than a transient substitution and confusion of several medieval authors was affirmed in the second half of the 19th century by the Czech historian Konstantin Josef Jireček in his " History of the Bulgarians ", first published in 1876, in which he ignored the idea of significant ethnic Vlach participation in these processes, and is supported by the contemporary Bulgarian medievalist and researcher of the Asens Ivan Bozhilov.

Born in Štip, Kingdom of Serbia ( then under Bulgarian control ), Gligorov later graduated from the University of Belgrade's Law School and was a participant in the National Liberation War of the ethnic Macedonians from 1941 as a secretary of the Initiative committee for the organization of the Antifascist Assembly of the National Liberation of Macedonia ( ASNOM ) and a finance commissioner in the Presidium of ASNOM.

He had received orders from a former chairman of the Soviet Ukrainian government and current Soviet Ambassador to France, Christian Rakovsky, an ethnic Bulgarian and a revolutionary leader from Romania.

Finally, according to personal evaluation of a leading local ethnic Macedonian political activist, Stoyko Stoykov, the present number of Bulgarian citizens with ethnic Macedonian self-consciousness is between 5, 000 and 10, 000.

The Ottomans managed to keep the Edirne region, where the whole Thracian Bulgarian population was put to total ethnic cleansing by the Ottoman empire.

Nevertheless some of the Macedonian historical scholarship and political élite have reluctantly acknowledged the Bulgarian ethnic character of the insurgents.

In 2002, most of the municipalities of Central Serbia had an ethnic Serb majority, three municipalities ( Novi Pazar, Tutin, and Sjenica ) had Bosniak majority, two municipalities ( Bujanovac and Preševo ) had Albanian majority, one municipality ( Bosilegrad ) had a Bulgarian majority, and one municipality ( Dimitrovgrad ) was ethnically mixed with a Bulgarian relative majority.

Levski looked beyond the act of liberation: he envisioned a " pure and sacred " Bulgarian republic of ethnic and religious equality.

Even though the MRF has been legally a part of Bulgarian political life since then, some Bulgarian ultra-nationalists, particularly the far-right National Union Attack, continue to assert that it is anti-constitutional because it consists mainly of ethnic Turks.

After 1944, the Bulgarian policy on the Macedonian Question was changed under Bulgaria's new communist regime, which was committed to the Comintern policy of supporting the development of a distinct ethnic Macedonian consciousness.

Aiming to enforce the belief Delchev was an ethnic Macedonian, all documents written by him in standard Bulgarian were translated into the standartized in 1945 Macedonian language, and presented as originals.

As result, Delchev was declared an ethnic Macedonian hero, and Macedonian school textbooks began even to hint at Bulgarian complicity in his death.

There aren't any indications suggesting his doubt about the Bulgarian ethnic character of the Macedonian Slavs at that time.

That request clearly indicates his self-identification at that time-As a Bulgarian, I would willingly return to Bulgaria, if there is a need of a scientific research of the fate of the Bulgarian lands, especially Macedonia ..

* May 4 – The leading Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev is killed in a skirmish with the Turkish army.

* May 4 – Gotse Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary ( b. 1872 )

* January 23 – Gotse Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary ( d. 1903 )

The Pomaks living in the Bulgarian part of the Rhodopes speak the Rhodope ( especially the Smolyan, Chepino, Hvoyna and Zlatograd subdialects ) and Western Rup ( especially the Babyak and Gotse Delchev sub-dialects ) dialects.

Georgi Nikolov Delchev ( 1872 – 1903 ) ( Bulgarian / Macedonian: Георги Николов Делчев, known as Gotse Delchev, also spelled Goce Delčev, Cyrillic: Гоце Делчев, originally spelled Гоце Дѣлчевъ ) was an important revolutionary figure in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Thrace at the turn of the 20th century.

As a student Delchev began first to study in the Bulgarian Uniate's primary school and then in the Bulgarian Exarchate's junior high school.

He also read widely in the town's chitalishte, where he was impressed with revolutionary books, and especially Delchev was imbued with the ideas of Bulgarian liberation struggle.

Graduation from a Bulgarian school was faced with few career prospects and Delchev decided to follow the path of his former school-mate Boris Sarafov, entering the military school in Sofia in 1891.

Telegram by the Ottoman authorities to their Embassy in Sofia informing, Delchev, one of the leaders of the Bulgarian Committees, was killed.

The restored grave-place of Delchev near Banitsa during Bulgaria during World War II # Axis Powers | World War II Bulgarian annexation of Northern Greece.

The first biographical book about Delchev, issued in 1904 by the Bulgarian author Peyo Yavorov.

Bulgarian postcard ( 1904 ) representing Delchev and IMARO cheta.

Two of his brothers, Mitso Delchev and Milan Delchev were also killed fighting against the Ottomans as militants in the SMARO chetas of the Bulgarian voivodas Hristo Chernopeev and Krstjo Asenov in 1901 and 1903, respectively.

Despite the efforts of the post-1945 Macedonian historiography to represent Delchev as a Macedonian separatist rather than a Bulgarian nationalist, Delchev himself has stated: "... We are Bulgarians and and all suffer from one common disease the Ottoman rule " and " Our task is not to shed the blood of Bulgarians, of those who belong to the same people that we serve ".

Following the breakup of Yugoslavia and the fall of Communism, some attempts were made from Bulgarian officials for joint celebration with the newly established Republic of Macedonia, of the common IMRO heroes, e. g. Delchev, but they all were rejected as politically unacceptable.

Delchev also used the Bulgarian standard language, and he was in any way interested in the creation of separate Macedonian language.

In English: Peyo Yavorov, " Complete Works ", Volume 2, biography " Delchev ", Publishing house " Bulgarian writer ", Sofia, 1977.

Since 1990, Bulgaria has an unstable party system, in the past two decades differently dominated by the post-communist Bulgarian Socialist Party or by the right Union of Democratic Forces and recently by the new right-oriented party-Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria.

Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language ( collectively forming the East South Slavic languages ), has several characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages: changes include the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article ( see Balkan language area ) and the lack of a verb infinitive ; but it retains and has further developed the Proto-Slavic verb system.

The film has a cosmopolitan cast of characters ( American, French, German, Czech, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Russian and some other nationalities ).

This word has often been employed as an epithet in Eastern European legends ( Sabya Damaskinya or Sablja Dimiskija meaning " Damascene saber "), including the Serbian and Bulgarian legends of Prince Marko, a historical figure of the late 14th century in what is currently the Republic of Macedonia.

In Germany, this game is called " Mensch ärgere dich nicht " which means " Man, don't get irritated ", and has equivalent names in Dutch, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Czech and Slovak.

Macedonian's closest relative is Bulgarian, with which it has a high degree of mutual intelligibility.

Bulgaria has proposed to sign a treaty ( based on that 1999 Joint Declaration ) guaranteeing the good neighbourly relations between the two countries, to enable Bulgarian support for the accession of the Republic of Macedonia to the European Union.

He claims to have received two months of training in weaponry and terrorist tactics in Syria as a member of the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine paid for by the Communist Bulgarian government, although this has been questioned.

The word has also spread to Turkish as pide, and Bulgarian, Croatian and Serbian as pita, Albanian as pite and Modern Hebrew pittāh.

The Serbian form has parallels in virtually all Slavic languages: Bulgarian and Macedonian вампир ( vampir ), Croatian vampir, Czech and Slovak upír, Polish wąpierz, and ( perhaps East Slavic-influenced ) upiór, Ukrainian упир ( upyr < nowiki ></ nowiki >), Russian упырь ( upyr < nowiki >'</ nowiki >), Belarusian упыр ( upyr ), from Old East Slavic упирь ( upir < nowiki >'</ nowiki >).

Old Church Slavonic has some extra features in common with Bulgarian:

* The Ukrainian language, in common with Russian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene and Serbian has simplified the Common Slavic tl and dl into l ( for example, mela – she swept ").

Accordingly, in this context, people born on Saturday were specially designated as sabbatianoí in Greek and sâbotnichavi in Bulgarian ; the term has been rendered in English as " Sabbatarians ".

It has audio tracks in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish and subtitles in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Hindi, Portuguese, Turkish, Danish, Icelandic, Bulgarian, Swedish, Hungarian, Polish, Dutch, Arabic, Finnish, Czech and Greek.

The number system used for numbering the pages, however, has been cracked ( apparently independently ) by Allan C. Wechsler and Bulgarian linguist Ivan Derzhanski, among others.

It has lower intelligibility with the East South Slavic languages Bulgarian and Macedonian, than with Slovene ( although Slovene is part of the West subgroup, it is hindered by differences in vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation to the Serbo-Croatian standard forms, although closer to the Serbo-Croatian Kajkavian and Čakavian dialects ).

In Bulgaria, Discovery has since 2000 – 2001 been displayed with Bulgarian subtitles by all cable providers and since 2010-with Bulgarian doubling for some of the shows.

It has been suggested that the 681 peace treaty with the Byzantine Empire that established the new Bulgarian state was concluded at Varna and the first Bulgarian capital south of the Danube may have been provisionally located in its vicinity — possibly in an ancient city near Lake Varna's north shore named Theodorias ( Θεοδωριάς ) by Justinian I — before it moved to Pliska 70 km to the west.

In retail, the city not only has the assortment of international big-box retailers now ubiquitous in larger Bulgarian cities, but boasts made-in-Varna national chains with locations spreading over the country such as retailer Piccadilly, restaurateur Happy, and pharmacy chain Sanita.

Since December 2006, various sources, including the Bulgarian National Television, national newspapers, research agencies, the mayor's office, and local police, claim that Varna has a population by present address of over 500, 000, making it the nation's second-largest city.

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

The first section of that chapter is entitled " Acquisition of Bulgarian Citizenship by Origin ", and provides at article 9 that " ny person ... whose descent from a Bulgarian citizen has been established by way of a court ruling shall be a Bulgarian citizen by origin.