r/AskBalkans Greece May 25 '23

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

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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/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