Bulgarian
An ethnic group living mainly in Bulgaria. There are 8–8.5 million speakers of Bulgarian, a Slavic language belonging to the Indo-European family. The Bulgarians use the Cyrillic alphabet.
Known in Eastern Europe since the 6th century AD, the Bulgarians were unified under Kurt or Kubrat in the 7th century. In 864 Boris I adopted the Eastern Orthodox faith. Between 1018 and 1185 the Bulgarians were ruled by the Byzantines, and between 1396 and 1878 by the Ottomans. To suppress an uprising against the Ottoman Empire 1876 the Turks massacred thousands of Bulgarians.
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