Summary
Arabs in Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Араби в България, Arabic: العرب في بلغاريا) are the people from Arab countries, particularly Lebanon, Syria, the Palestine, Iraq, and Jordan and also small groups from Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and Sudan, who emigrated from their native nations and currently reside in Bulgaria. In the over forty-year history of this community, 11,400 Arabs have migrated to Bulgaria.[1] According to other data from two teams of anthropologists and sociologists, the number of Arabs in Bulgaria who are legal residents and officially have work permits was 17,000 in 2004. (the number 17,000 includes not only Arabs but also Kurds, Afghans, Berber and others.)[2][3]
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 11,400[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, Burgas | |
| Languages | |
| Arabic language Bulgarian language | |
| Religion | |
| Islam and Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Arab people, Arab diaspora, Arab Americans, Arab Argentine, Arab Brazilian, Arab Canadians, Arab Mexican |
In addition, Bulgaria has people from Arab countries, who have the status of refugees (refugees of the Syrian civil war, but only 10% of them are Syrian Arabs, the other 90% of them are Syrian Kurds)[4] or illegal immigrants trying to immigrate to Western Europe.
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- ^ a b "Arab in Bulgaria".
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 December 2008. Retrieved 23 December 2008.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "ИМИГРАЦИЯТА В БЪЛГАРИЯ" (PDF). ruslantrad.com (in Bulgarian). 2005. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
- ^ 90% от бегълците от Сирия са кюрди Standart News (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 17 April 2023