Romanians in Bulgaria

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Ethnic map of the Balkans prior to the First Balkan War by Paul Vidal de la Blache.

Ethnic map of Bulgaria according to the census results from 1892 (Blue denotes regions with a Romanian minority)

Settlements in Serbia and northwestern Bulgaria with a Romanian population prior to the First World War

The Romanian minority in Bulgaria is concentrated in the northwestern part of the country, in Vidin Province, Vratsa Province and Pleven Province. They spek the Oltenian variety of the Romanian language. The Romanians from the Vidin Province are separated into 2 main groups: the "Dunăreni" (who live around the Danube river) and the "Pădureni" (who lived in the higher placed regions with many woods). In southwestern Bulgaria lives also a very small Aromanian population, such as in the village Peshtera.^[1] The territory where the Romanians from Bulgaria live never belonged to Romania and most of them declare themselves "vlasi" (= Vlachs) when asked in Bulgarian (e.g. on the census), though they use the self-designation "rumân" (= Rumanians) in their language. The Romanians in Bulgaria are not recognized as a national minority, but as en ethnic group and they don't enjoy ethnic rights in schools and churches since the Interwar period.^[2]

[edit] Census figures

1. ^  The 2001 census shows 10,566 Vlachs. Most of the Vlachs (Romanians) are Romanian-speakers, but the figure includes some Aromanian-speakers as well.

[edit] See also

• Bulgarianisation

[edit] References

1. ^ Aromanians
2. ^ Romanii Din Bulgaria

• Gheorghe Zbuchea, Cezar Dobre, "Românii timoceni", Bucharest, 2005 ISBN 973-86782-2-6

[edit] Weblinks

[edit] in Romanian

• Românii din Bulgaria
• 35 de sate de români de "mâna a doua"
• Romana, limba de circulaţie internaţională
• Limba română moare pe malul bulgăresc
• "Oltenii" din Bulgaria
• Interviu cu Ivo Gheorghiev, preşedintele Uniunii Etnicilor Români din Bulgaria
• Coloniştii români timoceni din Cadrilater
• Articol despre mănăstirea Bacikovo
• Zilele folclorului românesc în Bulgaria
• Etnicii românii din Bulgaria cer sprijinul Consiliului Europei

[edit] in English

• Eliznik page

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