Macedonians (Bulgarians)

As Macedonian Bulgarians or Macedonian Bulgarians ( Bulgarian Македонски българи, often referred to simply Македонци / Makedonzi, German Macedonian ), in Bulgaria, in the strict sense of the Bulgarian refugees from the countryside of Macedonia (→ Vilayet Manastır and Salonika vilayet ) in present-day northern Greece ( Greek → Macedonia ) and the present-day Republic of Macedonia, respectively.

In a broader sense, the Bulgarian inhabitants of the present Bulgarian part of the landscape Macedonia call themselves Macedonians in Bulgaria as Bulgarian and form one of the ethnic groups of the country. In the historical context as Macedonian Bulgarians so the numerous members of the Bulgarian Exarchate and the Bulgarian Uniate Church in Macedonia were described in the early 20th century.

Several waves of refugees (after the Ilinden Preobraschenie Uprising ( 1903), according to the treaties of Sevres and Neuilly -sur -Seine (1919), Lausanne (1922 ) and after the Balkan Wars ( 1912-1913 ) and the World Wars ) decimated their numbers in not the Bulgarian lands in Macedonia. Serbian estimates for the year 1913 for the territory of Vardar Macedonia expect a number of 90,000, then 10% of the total population. In the period after the First World War there were over 100,000 as refugees in Bulgaria. Together with the Bulgarian refugees from Thrace ( → Thracian Bulgarians ) they represent a quarter to a third of the population of the state of present day Bulgaria Bulgaria dar. more refugees emigrated to the USA and Australia.