My ancestors lived along the Danube river in small villages. They had turkish names there yet ethnically it seemed that they were Bulgarians? Am I getting a bulgarian approval haha ?
by PlayfulMinimum863
My ancestors lived along the Danube river in small villages. They had turkish names there yet ethnically it seemed that they were Bulgarians? Am I getting a bulgarian approval haha ?
by PlayfulMinimum863
6 comments
Yes!
Congrats ! You are one of hundreds of thousands ethnic bulgarians whose ancestors were forcibly converted and given muslim names after the ottoman empire occupied the balkans. No hard feeling of course but history is wild sometimes !
Clearly, you don’t own an air fryer
Is this my heritage? Use 23andme better for more precise results. Anyway a lot of Bulgarian turks are ethnically much more Bulgarian tham Turkish, they just changed religion and so started being considered Turkish
Clearly you’re not a commie, so 500years is all good 👌
When the Ottoman empire ruled over Bulgaria many children were taken forcefully away from their homes.