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Bulgarisation (or Bulgarization, Bulgarianisation or Bulgarianization; Bulgarian: побългаряване or българизация) is a term used to describe a cultural change in which something ethnically non-Bulgarian is made to become Bulgarian.
During the Communist period of Bulgarian history, the Turkish minority in the south-east of the country was forced to change their names from Turkish to Bulgarian in 1984-1985, during the authoritarian rule of Todor Zhivkov. This violation of human rights met forceful resistance and was soon abandoned due to large-scale protests, international pressure and cases of terrorism. The Bulgarian government has since apologized on multiple occasions for those events. Communist Bulgaria began as the Peoples Republic of Bulgaria (PRB) in 1944, and ended in 1991. ... Todor Zhivkov Todor Hristov Zhivkov (Bulgarian: Toдор Xpиcтoв Живков; pronounced ; (September 7, 1911–August 5, 1998) was the Communist leader of Bulgaria from March 4, 1954 until November 10, 1989. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...
Swept by the Hunnish wave at the beginning of the 4th century AD, other Bulgartribes broke loose from their settlements in centralAsia to migrate to the fertile lands along the lower valleys of the Donets and the Don rivers and the Azov seashore, assimilating what was left of the Sarmatians.
After the defeat of the Huns in the Battle of Chalons on September 20, 451, and the subsequent disintegration of the Hunnish empire, the Bulgartribes dispersed mostly to the eastern and southeastern parts of Europe.
The khan’s eldest son, Batbayan (Bayan, Boyan), remained the ruler of the land north of the Black and the Azov Seas, which was, however, soon subdued by the Khazars.
After the utter defeat of the Huns in the Battle of Chalons on September 20, 451 AD, the Bulgars redirected their attention to Byzantium where consecutive raids were undertaken in the end of the 5th century and the beginning of the 6th century.
United under Kubrat (Kurt) of the Dulo clan, they broke loose from the khanate and formed an independent state between the lower course of the Danube to the west, the Black and the Azov Seas to the south, the Kuban river to the east, and the Donets river to the north.
The Bulgars converted to Judaism in the 9th century, along with the Khazars, and were eventually assimilated.
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