Kirche in Bardarski Geran
Area: 110,994 km2
Population: 7.4 million
Capital: Sofia
Official language: Bulgarian
Currency: Lev
Bulgarian Tsar brings in Saxon Miners
During the Middle Ages there was a first major wave of settlements by Germans. Saxon miners settled in Bulgaria and were granted their own legal rights by the Bulgarian tsar. With the advance of the Ottomans, however, they withdrew again and the few remaining Germans were assimilated and merged with the local population. It was not until an independent Bulgaria was created in 1878 that Germans settled again in selective areas. In the villages in the north of the country these were mainly farmers from the Banat, Dobruja and Bessarabia, while German merchants found a home in the towns of the lower Danube. As a result of an intergovernmental agreement, most Germans of the country were relocated to areas of the German Reich in 1943.
Deutsche Bevölkerung
1910: 4,807 (0.1percent)
1956: about 700
Literature
Härtel, Hans-Joachim; Schönfeld, Roland: Bulgarien. Vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Regensburg, 1998
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Bohmann, Alfred: Bulgarien. In: Bevölkerung und Nationalitäten in Südosteuropa. Köln 1969, S. 337-354
german
Müller, Florian: Ostdeutsches Schicksal am Schwarzen Meer. Donzdorf 1981. (vergriffen)
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