Pomaks
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Pomaks are Bulgarian-speaking Muslims inhabiting Bulgaria, northwestern Turkey, and northeastern Greece. The c. 220,000 strong ethno-confessional minority in Bulgaria is recognized officially as Bulga
Pomaks in the early 20th century
Tuhovishta's Mosque
Medusa Pomak village, Xanthi, Thrace, Greece
Muhacir
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Muhacir is a term referring to Ottoman Muslim citizens and their descendants born after the onset of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Muhacirs overwhelmingly self-identified as Muslims and their
Pomaks
…designation, including also the Slavic Muslim populations of North Macedonia and Albania. Most Pomaks today live in Turkey, where they have settled as muhacirs as a result of escaping previous ethnic cleansing in Bulgaria. Bulgaria recognizes their language as a Bulgarian dialect, whereas in Greece and Turkey…
Muhacirs arriving in Istanbul crossing the Galata Bridge, Ottoman Empire, in 1912, with the New Mosque in the background
Turkish immigrants from Bulgaria arriving in Anatolia in 1912
A Turkish Cypriot family who migrated to Turkey in 1935
A Muslim family from Crete who settled in Smyrna (currently Izmir), 1923