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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Coat_of_arms_of_Bulgaria.svg/130px-Coat_of_arms_of_Bulgaria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="130" height="109" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Coat_of_arms_of_Bulgaria.svg/195px-Coat_of_arms_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Coat_of_arms_of_Bulgaria.svg/260px-Coat_of_arms_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="810" data-file-height="679" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em 0; border-top:1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Bulgaria" title="Culture of Bulgaria">Culture</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="padding:0 0.4em 0.6em; border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_literature" title="Bulgarian literature">Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Bulgaria" title="Music of Bulgaria">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Bulgaria#Visual_art" title="Culture of Bulgaria">Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_Bulgaria" title="Cinema of Bulgaria">Cinema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_name" title="Bulgarian name">Names</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_cuisine" title="Bulgarian cuisine">Cuisine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_folk_dance" title="Bulgarian folk dance">Dances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_national_garb" title="Bulgarian national garb">Costume</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sport_in_Bulgaria" title="Sport in Bulgaria">Sport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Bulgaria" title="Public holidays in Bulgaria">Public holidays in Bulgaria</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em 0; border-top:1px solid #aaa;"> By country</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="padding:0 0.4em 0.6em; border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_Albania" title="Bulgarians in Albania">Albania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Australians" title="Bulgarian Australians">Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Canadians" title="Bulgarian Canadians">Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_Croatia" title="Bulgarians in Croatia">Croatia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_Czechoslovakia" title="Bulgarians in Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_France" title="Bulgarians in France">France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_Germany" title="Bulgarians in Germany">Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavic_speakers_of_Greek_Macedonia" title="Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia">Greece</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_Hungary" title="Bulgarians in Hungary">Hungary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_Italy" title="Bulgarians in Italy">Italy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_Kazakhstan" title="Bulgarians in Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_Lebanon" title="Bulgarians in Lebanon">Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_North_Macedonia" title="Bulgarians in North Macedonia">North Macedonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_Romania" title="Bulgarians in Romania">Romania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_Serbia" title="Bulgarians in Serbia">Serbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_Spain" title="Bulgarians in Spain">Spain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_South_America" title="Bulgarians in South America">South America</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Brazilians" title="Bulgarian Brazilians">Brazil</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_Turkey" title="Bulgarians in Turkey">Turkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_Ukraine" title="Bulgarians in Ukraine">Ukraine</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Crimean_Bulgarians" title="Crimean Bulgarians">Crimea</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Bulgarians in the United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">United States</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em 0; border-top:1px solid #aaa;"> Subgroups</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="padding:0 0.4em 0.6em; border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anatolian_Bulgarians" title="Anatolian Bulgarians">Anatolian Bulgarians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banat_Bulgarians" title="Banat Bulgarians">Banat Bulgarians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bessarabian_Bulgarians" title="Bessarabian Bulgarians">Bessarabian Bulgarians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dobrujan_Bulgarians" title="Dobrujan Bulgarians">Dobrujan Bulgarians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macedonian_Bulgarians" title="Macedonian Bulgarians">Macedonian Bulgarians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pomaks" title="Pomaks">Pomaks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C8%98chei" title="Șchei">Șchei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shopi" title="Shopi">Shopi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thracian_Bulgarians" title="Thracian Bulgarians">Thracian Bulgarians</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em 0; border-top:1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Bulgaria" title="Religion in Bulgaria">Religion</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="padding:0 0.4em 0.6em; border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Orthodox_Church" title="Bulgarian Orthodox Church">Bulgarian Orthodox Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Muslims" title="Bulgarian Muslims">Islam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Bulgaria" title="Catholic Church in Bulgaria">Catholic Church</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Greek_Catholic_Church" title="Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church">Greek-Catholics</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protestantism_in_Bulgaria" title="Protestantism in Bulgaria">Protestant denominations</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em 0; border-top:1px solid #aaa;"> Language</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="padding:0 0.4em 0.6em; border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_language" title="Bulgarian language">Bulgarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_dialects" title="Bulgarian dialects">Dialects</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Balkan_dialects_of_Bulgarian" title="Balkan dialects of Bulgarian">Balkan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banat_Bulgarian_dialect" title="Banat Bulgarian dialect">Banat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rup_dialects" title="Rup dialects">Ruptsi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torlakian_dialects" title="Torlakian dialects">Torlakian</a></li></ul></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em 0; border-top:1px solid #aaa;"> Other</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="padding:0 0.4em 0.6em; border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Bulgarians" title="List of Bulgarians">List of Bulgarians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:People_of_Bulgarian_descent" title="Category:People of Bulgarian descent">People of Bulgarian descent</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar" style="padding-top:0;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Bulgarians" title="Template:Bulgarians"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Bulgarians" title="Template talk:Bulgarians"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Bulgarians" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Bulgarians"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Bulgarian Americans</b> are <a href="/wiki/Americans" title="Americans">Americans</a> of full or partial <a href="/wiki/Bulgarians" title="Bulgarians">Bulgarian descent</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For the <a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2000 United States Census">2000 United States Census</a>, 55,489 Americans indicated Bulgarian as their first ancestry,<sup id="cite_ref-USCensus_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USCensus-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while 92,841 persons declared to have Bulgarian ancestry.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Those can include Bulgarian Americans living in the United States for one or several generations, dual Bulgarian American citizens, or any other Bulgarian Americans who consider themselves to be affiliated to both cultures or countries. </p><p>Bulgarian Americans include persons born in <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>, in the United States, and in other countries with ethnic Bulgarian population. Because some Bulgarians are not American citizens, others are dual citizens, and still others' ancestors moved to the U.S. several generations ago, some of these people consider themselves to be simply Americans, Bulgarians, Bulgarians living in the United States or American Bulgarians. </p><p>After the 2000 U.S. census, the population grew significantly — according to the general assessments of <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgarian</a> diplomatic representations in the US for 2010, there were 250,000 <a href="/wiki/Bulgarians" title="Bulgarians">Bulgarians</a> residing in the country, and more than 30,000 students.<sup id="cite_ref-www.mfa.bg_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-www.mfa.bg-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Americans&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bulgarian <a href="/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Immigration to the United States">immigration to the United States</a> began in the mid 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Mihaela Robila they tended to settle in Slavic enclaves in the Midwest or Northeast.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David Cassens has published a study of 'The Bulgarian Colony of Southwestern Illinois 1900-1920'.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/To_Chicago_and_Back" title="To Chicago and Back">To Chicago and Back</a>,</i> (<a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_language" title="Bulgarian language">Bulgarian</a>:"До Чикаго и назад") by the eminent Bulgarian author <a href="/wiki/Aleko_Konstantinov" title="Aleko Konstantinov">Aleko Konstantinov</a>; first published in 1894 mostly concerns attendance at a <a href="/wiki/Trade_fair" class="mw-redirect" title="Trade fair">trade fair</a>, not emigration per se. </p><p>The United States has one of the highest numbers of Bulgarians of any country in the world. As many as 250,000<sup><a href="#Population_data">1</a></sup> Bulgarians live in the country. From the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_European" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern European">Eastern European</a> countries, <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a> has the second highest number of students who study in the United States, after <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Americans&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The state with the largest number of Bulgarians is <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>, followed by <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>, <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>. <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>, more specifically <a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston</a>, also has a growing population. According to the <a href="/wiki/2000_US_census" class="mw-redirect" title="2000 US census">2000 US census</a> the cities with the highest number of Bulgarian Americans are <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>, <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a> and <a href="/wiki/Miami" title="Miami">Miami</a>. Approximately 60% of Bulgarian Americans over the age of 25 hold a bachelor's degree or higher.<sup id="cite_ref-GASbulgmarket_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GASbulgmarket-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2015, out of 61,377 ethnic Bulgarians born outside the United States, 57,089 were born in Bulgaria, 37 in North Macedonia and 46 in Greece.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bulgarian Americans have an annual median household income of $76,862.<sup id="cite_ref-GASbulgmarket_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GASbulgmarket-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the 2000 US census when Bulgarians were 50-100,000, during the last 10 years their number has grown significantly to over 250,000.<sup id="cite_ref-www.mfa.bg_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-www.mfa.bg-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bulgarian-born_population">Bulgarian-born population</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Americans&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Bulgarian-born population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bulgarian-born population in the US since 2010:<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" style="width:80px;">Year </th> <th scope="col" style="width:160px;">Number </th></tr> <tr align="center"> <td>2010 </td> <td>62,684 </td></tr> <tr align="center"> <td>2011 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>65,202 </td></tr> <tr align="center"> <td>2012 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>64,964 </td></tr> <tr align="center"> <td>2013 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>67,941 </td></tr> <tr align="center"> <td>2014 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>63,318 </td></tr> <tr align="center"> <td>2015 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>67,377 </td></tr> <tr align="center"> <td>2016 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>70,800 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Language">Language</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Americans&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Language"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bulgarian_church_in_USA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Bulgarian_church_in_USA.jpg/220px-Bulgarian_church_in_USA.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Bulgarian_church_in_USA.jpg/330px-Bulgarian_church_in_USA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Bulgarian_church_in_USA.jpg/440px-Bulgarian_church_in_USA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>A Bulgarian church (<a href="/wiki/Saint_Climent_of_Ohrid" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Climent of Ohrid">Saint Climent of Ohrid</a>) in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Angeles, California">Los Angeles, California</a></figcaption></figure> <p>According to the 2000 US Census, 28,565 people indicated that they speak <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_language" title="Bulgarian language">Bulgarian</a> at home. But in the recent years the number grew significantly to over 250,000 people.<sup id="cite_ref-www.mfa.bg_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-www.mfa.bg-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some Bulgarian Americans speak <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Language" class="mw-redirect" title="Bulgarian Language">Bulgarian</a>, especially the more recent immigrants, while others might not speak the language at all, or speak Bulgarian mixed with English to a lesser or greater extent. </p><p>Some Bulgarian Americans understand Bulgarian even though they might not be able to speak the language. There are cases where older generations of Bulgarians or descendants of Bulgarian immigrants from the early part of the 20th century are fluent in the Bulgarian language as well. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Americans&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table style="border-collapse:collapse;text-align:center;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;margin:auto;width:700px"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width:70px;text-align:center;border:1px #aaa solid"><div style="display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle;width:70px;height:80px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sophia_Popov_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Sophia_Popov_%28cropped%29.jpg/57px-Sophia_Popov_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="57" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Sophia_Popov_%28cropped%29.jpg/85px-Sophia_Popov_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Sophia_Popov_%28cropped%29.jpg/114px-Sophia_Popov_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2054" data-file-height="2885" /></a></span></div><div style="padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/Sophia_Popov" title="Sophia Popov">Sophia Popov</a></div></td><td style="width:70px;text-align:center;border:1px #aaa solid"><div style="display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle;width:70px;height:80px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Maria_Popova.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Maria_Popova.jpg/70px-Maria_Popova.jpg" decoding="async" width="70" height="47" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Maria_Popova.jpg/105px-Maria_Popova.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Maria_Popova.jpg/140px-Maria_Popova.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1120" data-file-height="747" /></a></span></div><div style="padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/Maria_Popova" title="Maria Popova">Maria Popova</a></div></td><td style="width:70px;text-align:center;border:1px #aaa solid"><div style="display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle;width:70px;height:80px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Rita_Wilson_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Rita_Wilson_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg/58px-Rita_Wilson_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="58" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Rita_Wilson_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg/87px-Rita_Wilson_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Rita_Wilson_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg/116px-Rita_Wilson_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2693" data-file-height="3700" /></a></span></div><div style="padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/Rita_Wilson" title="Rita Wilson">Rita Wilson</a></div></td><td style="width:70px;text-align:center;border:1px #aaa solid"><div style="display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle;width:70px;height:80px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Carolyn_Christov-Bakargiev_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Carolyn_Christov-Bakargiev_2010.jpg/60px-Carolyn_Christov-Bakargiev_2010.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Carolyn_Christov-Bakargiev_2010.jpg/90px-Carolyn_Christov-Bakargiev_2010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Carolyn_Christov-Bakargiev_2010.jpg/120px-Carolyn_Christov-Bakargiev_2010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="1067" /></a></span></div><div style="padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/Carolyn_Christov-Bakargiev" title="Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev">Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev</a></div></td><td style="width:70px;text-align:center;border:1px #aaa solid"><div style="display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle;width:70px;height:80px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:10.2.10AlexMaleevByLuigiNovi1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/10.2.10AlexMaleevByLuigiNovi1.jpg/70px-10.2.10AlexMaleevByLuigiNovi1.jpg" decoding="async" width="70" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/10.2.10AlexMaleevByLuigiNovi1.jpg/105px-10.2.10AlexMaleevByLuigiNovi1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/10.2.10AlexMaleevByLuigiNovi1.jpg/140px-10.2.10AlexMaleevByLuigiNovi1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1058" data-file-height="1094" /></a></span></div><div style="padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/Alex_Maleev" title="Alex Maleev">Alex Maleev</a></div></td><td style="width:70px;text-align:center;border:1px #aaa solid"><div style="display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle;width:70px;height:80px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Rusev_2018_HOF_(cropped)_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Rusev_2018_HOF_%28cropped%29_2.jpg/53px-Rusev_2018_HOF_%28cropped%29_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="53" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Rusev_2018_HOF_%28cropped%29_2.jpg/80px-Rusev_2018_HOF_%28cropped%29_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Rusev_2018_HOF_%28cropped%29_2.jpg/107px-Rusev_2018_HOF_%28cropped%29_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="779" data-file-height="1164" /></a></span></div><div style="padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/Rusev_(wrestler)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rusev (wrestler)">Miroslav Barnyashev</a></div></td><td style="width:70px;text-align:center;border:1px #aaa solid"><div style="display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle;width:70px;height:80px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Angela_Nikodinov.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Angela_Nikodinov.jpg/32px-Angela_Nikodinov.jpg" decoding="async" width="32" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Angela_Nikodinov.jpg/49px-Angela_Nikodinov.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Angela_Nikodinov.jpg/65px-Angela_Nikodinov.jpg 2x" data-file-width="233" data-file-height="569" /></a></span></div><div style="padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/Angela_Nikodinov" title="Angela Nikodinov">Angela Nikodinov</a></div></td><td style="width:70px;text-align:center;border:1px #aaa solid"><div style="display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle;width:70px;height:80px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:TechCrunch_Disrupt_NY_2016_-_Day_2_(26867775421)_(2)_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/TechCrunch_Disrupt_NY_2016_-_Day_2_%2826867775421%29_%282%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/55px-TechCrunch_Disrupt_NY_2016_-_Day_2_%2826867775421%29_%282%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="55" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/TechCrunch_Disrupt_NY_2016_-_Day_2_%2826867775421%29_%282%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/83px-TechCrunch_Disrupt_NY_2016_-_Day_2_%2826867775421%29_%282%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/TechCrunch_Disrupt_NY_2016_-_Day_2_%2826867775421%29_%282%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/111px-TechCrunch_Disrupt_NY_2016_-_Day_2_%2826867775421%29_%282%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="667" data-file-height="962" /></a></span></div><div style="padding:1px"><a href="/wiki/Vlad_Tenev" title="Vlad Tenev">Vlad Tenev</a></div></td><td style="width:70px;text-align:center;border:1px #aaa solid"></td><td style="width:70px;text-align:center;border:1px #aaa solid"></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Vincent_Atanasoff" title="John Vincent Atanasoff">John Vincent Atanasoff</a> (1903–1995) – inventor of the first automatic electronic digital <a href="/wiki/Computer" title="Computer">computer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rusev_(wrestler)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rusev (wrestler)">Miroslav Barnyashev</a> – <a href="/wiki/Professional_wrestling" title="Professional wrestling">professional wrestler</a> who worked as "Rusev" and currently, "Miro"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christo_and_Jeanne-Claude" title="Christo and Jeanne-Claude">Christo</a> – world-famous artist known for projects such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gates" title="The Gates">The Gates</a></i> and <i>The Wrapped Reichstag</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carolyn_Christov-Bakargiev" title="Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev">Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev</a> – writer, art historian, and curator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stoyan_Christowe" title="Stoyan Christowe">Stoyan Chrstowe</a> – author, journalist and noted Vermont political figure<sup id="cite_ref-:0_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Danoff" title="Bill Danoff">Bill Danoff</a> – singer-songwriter [Bill does not have Bulgarian heritage, despite the name, according to the man himself.]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiradjieff_brothers" title="Kiradjieff brothers">Kiradjieff brothers</a>, creators of <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_chili" title="Cincinnati chili">Cincinnati chili</a><sup id="cite_ref-:0_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephane_Groueff" title="Stephane Groueff">Stephane Groueff</a> (1922–2006) – writer and journalist who wrote the book <i>Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assen_Jordanoff" title="Assen Jordanoff">Assen Jordanoff</a> (1896–1967) – aviation constructor with a global recognition<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Kolov" title="Dan Kolov">Dan Kolov</a> (1892–1940) – early 20th century <a href="/wiki/Wrestling" title="Wrestling">wrestler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ted_Kotcheff" title="Ted Kotcheff">Ted Kotcheff</a> – film and television director and producer (<i><a href="/wiki/First_Blood" title="First Blood">First Blood</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Weekend_at_Bernie%27s" title="Weekend at Bernie's">Weekend at Bernie's</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leah_LaBelle" title="Leah LaBelle">Leah LaBelle</a> (1986–2018) – singer and finalist on <i><a href="/wiki/American_Idol" title="American Idol">American Idol</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Maleev" title="Alex Maleev">Alex Maleev</a> – <a href="/wiki/Comic_book" title="Comic book">comic book</a> <a href="/wiki/Illustrator" title="Illustrator">illustrator</a> and <a href="/wiki/Artist" title="Artist">artist</a> best known for the <a href="/wiki/Marvel_Comics" title="Marvel Comics">Marvel Comics</a>' series <i><a href="/wiki/Daredevil_(Marvel_Comics_series)" title="Daredevil (Marvel Comics series)">Daredevil</a></i> (vol. 2), collaborating with writer <a href="/wiki/Brian_Michael_Bendis" title="Brian Michael Bendis">Brian Michael Bendis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_P._Mintchev" title="Martin P. Mintchev">Martin P. Mintchev</a> – engineering professor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angela_Nikodinov" title="Angela Nikodinov">Angela Nikodinov</a> – <a href="/wiki/Figure_skating" title="Figure skating">figure skater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Ninov" title="Victor Ninov">Victor Ninov</a> – <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_physics" title="Nuclear physics">nuclear physicist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Petroff" title="Peter Petroff">Peter Petroff</a> (1919–2003) – inventor, engineer, <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> scientist, and adventurer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Popova" title="Maria Popova">Maria Popova</a> – writer, critic, and blogger; named among the "100 Most Creative People in Business" by <i><a href="/wiki/Fast_Company" title="Fast Company">Fast Company</a></i> in 2012</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svetla_Protich" title="Svetla Protich">Svetla Protich</a> – classical <a href="/wiki/Pianist" title="Pianist">pianist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Tenev" class="mw-redirect" title="Vladimir Tenev">Vladimir Tenev</a> – billionaire, co-founder of <a href="/wiki/Robinhood_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robinhood (company)">Robinhood</a>, entrepreneur</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_the_Giant" title="André the Giant">Andre Roussimoff</a> (1946–1993) – professional wrestler known as André the Giant</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dimitar_Sasselov" title="Dimitar Sasselov">Dimitar Sasselov</a> – <a href="/wiki/Astronomer" title="Astronomer">astronomer</a> and professor at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyril_Vassilev" title="Kyril Vassilev">Kyril Vassilev</a> (1908–1987) – <a href="/wiki/Portrait_painting" title="Portrait painting">portrait painter</a> of royalty and American society during the mid-20th century</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Voinoff" title="Sam Voinoff">Sam Voinoff</a> (1907–1989) – college golf coach at <a href="/wiki/Purdue_University" title="Purdue University">Purdue University</a>, with 10 <a href="/wiki/Big_Ten" class="mw-redirect" title="Big Ten">Big Ten</a>, and 1 <a href="/wiki/NCAA" class="mw-redirect" title="NCAA">NCAA</a> championships.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sophia_Popov" title="Sophia Popov">Sophia Popov</a> – professional golfer, of Bulgarian and German ancestry</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_George" title="Pete George">Pete George</a> – <a href="/wiki/Olympic_weightlifting" title="Olympic weightlifting">weightlifter</a> and Olympic and World champion<sup id="cite_ref-:0_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_George_(weightlifter)" title="Jim George (weightlifter)">Jim George</a> – weightlifter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralitsa_Vassileva" title="Ralitsa Vassileva">Ralitsa Vassileva</a> - former anchor at <a href="/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a> from 1992 to 2014,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> now university teacher at <a href="/wiki/Grady_College_of_Journalism_and_Mass_Communication" class="mw-redirect" title="Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication">Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Americans&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{clear:left;float:left;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/32px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/48px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/64px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Bulgaria" title="Portal:Bulgaria">Bulgaria portal</a></span></li><li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/32px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/48px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/64px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:United_States" title="Portal:United States">United States portal</a></span></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Eastern_Orthodox_Diocese_of_the_USA,_Canada_and_Australia" title="Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada and Australia">Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada and Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Americans" title="European Americans">European Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macedonian_Patriotic_Organization" title="Macedonian Patriotic Organization">Macedonian Patriotic Organization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._John_of_Rila_Church_(Chicago)" title="St. John of Rila Church (Chicago)">St. John of Rila Church (Chicago)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="Bulgaria–United States relations">Bulgaria–United States relations</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Americans&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1041539562">.mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}</style><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_1"><b><a href="#ref_1">^</a></b></span> <span style="font-size:100%;">Estimates of the Agency for Bulgarians Abroad for the numbers of ethnic Bulgarians living for the country in question based on data from the Bulgarian Border Police, the Bulgarian Ministry of Labour and reports from immigrant associations. The numbers include members of the diaspora (2nd and 3rd generation descendants of Bulgarian immigrants), legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, students and other individuals permanently residing in the country in question as of 2004.</span> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-:0-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_13-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Also considered as <a href="/wiki/Macedonians_(ethnic_group)" title="Macedonians (ethnic group)">Macedonian</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Americans&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=PEOPLE%20REPORTING%20ANCESTRY&t=Ancestry&d=ACS%201-Year%20Estimates%20Detailed%20Tables&tid=ACSDT1Y2019.B04006&hidePreview=false">"PEOPLE REPORTING ANCESTRY. 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Palo Alto, Calif.: Ragusan Press, 1979.</li> <li>Auerbach, Susan (ed.). <i>Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism</i>. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1994.</li> <li>Carlson, Claudia and David Allen. <i>The Bulgarian Americans</i>. New York: Chelsea House, 1990. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87754-865-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-87754-865-X">0-87754-865-X</a></li> <li>Moody, Suzanna, Joel Wurl; Rudolph J Vecoli (eds.). <i>The Immigration History Research Center: A Guide to Collections</i>. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.</li> <li>Riggs, Thomas. <i>Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, Vol. 1</i>. 3rd ed. Farmington Hills: Gale, 2000.</li> <li>Yankoff, Peter Dimitrov. <i>Peter Menikoff: The Story of a Bulgarian Boy in the Great American Melting Pot</i>. Nashville, Tenn.: Cokesbury Press, 1928.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Americans&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Bu-Dr/Bulgarian-Americans.html">"Bulgarian Americans" by Eleanor Yu. Material on Everyculture.com</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gergananyc.com">Bulgarian Children's Chorus and School <i>Gergana</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.helpinghandsbulgaria.net/">Helping Hands Bulgaria</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lib.umn.edu/ihrca">Immigration History Research Center Archives</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lib.umn.edu/">University of Minnesota Libraries</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7593926/">The 90th Birthday of Professor Raphael Mechoulam, a Top Cannabinoid Scientist and Pioneer</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output 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