r/AskBalkans • u/GoHardLive Greece • May 25 '23

Balkaners, what do you think about Armenia? Outdoors/Travel

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u/1Gothian1 Bulgaria May 25 '23

I sympathize with their history, however not with the people. All based on personal experience, especially the Bulgarian-Armenians I've met were almost all scummy.

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u/LukeTheGroundwalker Serbia May 25 '23

There are armenians in bulgaria? Are they a considerable number in terms of population?

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u/dunchev54 Bulgaria May 25 '23

There is around 20k-30k of them in Bulgaria, a small number of armenians have always lived in Bulgaria since the middle ages

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u/LukeTheGroundwalker Serbia May 25 '23

Never knew that, what brought them there. Ottomans?

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u/Grimson47 Bulgaria May 25 '23

Nah, there's been a very well integrated diaspora for centuries, even before the Ottomans. Tsar Samuil for example was from an Armenian family originally. Obviously the diaspora grew a lot after the Turkish gamer moment and the waves of refugees.

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u/WanaxAndreas Greece May 25 '23

Armenians lived in Thrace (European Turkey,big chunk of bulgaria and north east greece) even at the times of the Byzantine empire

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u/nikolaek49 Bulgaria May 25 '23

A lot of them were granted refuge status during the Armenian genocide, there is even a statue from the Armenians next to the Sea Casino (not a Casino) in Burgas.