Nowadays there are some 40,000 Roman Catholic Bulgarians in Bulgaria, additional 10,000 in the Banat in Romania and up to 100,000 people of Bulgarian ancestry in South America.

Dec 22, 2025 · Bulgaria - Ethnic Groups, Language, Religion: Ethnically, the population is fairly homogeneous, with Bulgarians making up more than four-fifths of the total.

1 day ago · What is the population of Bulgaria? The official language is Bulgarian, and nearly all inhabitants speak it. About half of the Turkish population speaks Turkish as its mother tongue. …

Bulgarians are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and its neighbouring region, who share a common culture, history and language. They for...

Bulgarians are a South Slavic ethnic group that emerged during the early Middle Ages through the merging of Bulgars and Slavic tribes with remnants of the local Balkan population, primarily …

3 days ago · Bulgaria has long oscillated between oligarchic machine politics and stumbling efforts at reform. Mr Borisov, a former bodyguard with man-of-the-people charm, has run the country on and …

Ethnic Bulgarians trace their ancestry to the merging of Bulgars (or Proto-Bulgarians), a central Asian Turkic people, and Slavs, a central European people, beginning in the seventh century C.E. in what …

Bulgarians (bg|българи|bŭlgari, pronounced as /bg/) are a nation and South Slavic [44][45][46] ethnic group native to Bulgaria and its neighbouring region, who share a common Bulgarian ancestry, …

This article is a survey of important events and people in the history of Bulgaria from ancient times to the present.

Bulgaria's conversion had a political dimension, for it contributed both to the growth of central authority and to the merging of Bulgars and Slavs into a unified Bulgarian people.