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n. (plural of Bulgarian English)

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Bulgarians

The Bulgarians (, bǎlgari, ) are a South Slavic ethnic group who are native to Bulgaria and neighbouring regions.

Bulgarians (disambiguation)

Bulgarians may refer to:

  • Citizens of Bulgaria, a country in the Balkans in Southern Europe
  • Ethnic Bulgarians
    • Bulgarian people, persons of Bulgarian ancestry
    • Bulgarian diaspora - Bulgarian emigrants and their descendants, and also minorities of Bulgarians outside Bulgaria, which are not emigrants

Specific Bulgarians, collectively. See Lists of Bulgarians.

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Usage examples of "bulgarians".

They unleashed the Bashibazouks—murderous bands of Bulgarians converted to Islam—who burned and hacked to death 5,000 Orthodox Christians, nearly the whole population of Batak.

Above 600 years before Christ, a tribe of Bulgarians, driven from their native possessions beyond the Caspian, occupied a part of Armenia, north of the Araxes.

Malte-Brun, on the contrary, conceives that the Bulgarians took their name from the river.

He survived this impious menace, sailed into the mouth of the Danube, trusted his person in the royal village of the Bulgarians, and purchased the aid of Terbelis, a pagan conqueror, by the promise of his daughter and a fair partition of the treasures of the empire.

An army of Bulgarians was attracted from the Danube by the gifts and promises of Leo.

It was unworthy of the learning of the editor to mistake the Russian nation, for a war-cry of the Bulgarians, nor did it become the enlightened patriarch to accuse the Sclavonian idolaters.

To Bulgarians, this changes nothing: "The land remembers every one, even the murdered unborn babies who have no names," cried MacDermott, Delchev's pro-Bulgarian hagiographer.

To suppose that Bulgarians have ever forgiven Stalin or the Russians for this act is to have no understanding of the passions that rule the Balkans.

And again, Serb and Greek resistance forces, aided by the British, drove the Bulgarians back to the hated borders established in August 1913 at the conclusion of the Second Balkan War.

Why will the Serbs, the Greeks, and the Bulgarians not recognize our church?

Knowing that the Bulgarians were about to assert sovereignty over southern Dobruja, Carol sold the late Queen Marie's summer home there—where his mother's heart lay buried in a gold casket—to the state.

Yet it was obvious to me that the Bulgarians, as poor as they were, were economically better off than the Romanians, as well as having more personal freedom.

And who better to handle the contract for the Pope's elimination than the Bulgarians, whose Sigurnost—more than any other East European secret service—was KGB-dominated, and had, courtesy of their Turkish smuggling links, access to a network of obscure "right-wing" assassins who would be nearly impossible to trace back to Moscow?

The Balkans is a region of narrow visions, and because the Bulgarians had suffered the most under the Turks, their world view was narrower still.

This was the cold that Bulgarians were gearing up for, as they faced the economic aftershocks of the Gulf crisis—which had begun the previous August when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait—and the collapse of Communism.