The Crimean Bulgarians (Bulgarian: кримски българи, krimski balgari) are a historical ethnic Bulgarian minority in Crimea, a peninsula in Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea. As of 2014, there are officially 1,868 Bulgarians in Crimea,[1] although the leader of the Bulgarian community estimates up to 2,500 families, including mixed marriages.[2] Crimean Bulgarians are a small subgroup of the much larger Bulgarian minority in Ukraine.
History
Kishlav (Kurske)
Staryi Krym
Koktebel
Map of the most significant Crimean Bulgarian localities
However, the modern Bulgarian population in Crimea dates to several waves of migration from Ottoman-ruled Bulgaria beginning in the early 19th century. In 1802, 63 Bulgarian families founded a Bulgarian colony in Staryi Krym. In August 1804, 220 Bulgarians from the Adrianople vilayet landed at Sevastopol and established the village of Kishlav (today Kurske, Bilohirsk Raion).[6] These first settlers stemmed from the Strandzha localities of Gramatikovo, Kondolovo, Stoilovo and Malko Tarnovo. In Kishlav and Bolgarshchina, the Bulgarian neighbourhood of Staryi Krym, historic Bulgarian houses and churches can still be found.[7]
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