Editing Pomaks (section)

=== North Macedonia ===
The [[Macedonian Muslims]] (or ''Torbeši''), are also referred to as Pomaks, especially in historical context.<ref>[http://www.kroraina.com/knigi/en/carnegie/chapter1_1.html Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars, published by the Endowment Washington, D.C. 1914, p.28, 155, 288, 317], Поп Антов, Христо. Спомени, Скопje 2006, с. 22–23, 28–29, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=bosnia;cc=bosnia;idno=ahy8710.0001.001;size=l;frm=frameset;seq=249;page=root;view=image Дедиjeр, Jевто, Нова Србија, Београд 1913, с. 229], Петров Гьорче, Материали по изучаванието на Македония, София 1896, с. 475 (Petrov, Giorche. Materials on the Study of Macedonia, Sofia, 1896, p. 475)</ref><ref>[http://www.greekhelsinki.gr/pdf/cedime-se-macedonia-muslims.PDF Center for Documentation and Information on Minorities in Europe – Southeast Europe (CEDIME-SE). Muslims of Macedonia. p. 2, 11]</ref><ref>Лабаури, Дмитрий Олегович. Болгарское национальное движение в Македонии и Фракии в 1894–1908 гг: Идеология, программа, практика политической борьбы, София 2008, с. 184–186, [http://www.promacedonia.org/vk/vk_1_b2.htm Кънчов, Васил. Македония. Етнография и статистика, с. 39–53 (Kanchov, Vasil. Macedonia — ethnography and statistics Sofia, 1900, p. 39-53)], [http://www.kroraina.com/knigi/gall/ls/title.html Leonhard Schultze Jena. «Makedonien, Landschafts- und Kulturbilder», Jena, G. Fischer, 1927]</ref><ref>Fikret Adanir, Die Makedonische Frage: ihre entestehung und etwicklung bis 1908., Wiessbaden 1979 (in Bulgarian: Аданър, Фикрет. Македонският въпрос, София 2002, с. 20)</ref><ref>[http://www.digitalna.nb.rs/wb/NBS/casopisi_pretrazivi_po_datumu/glasnik_srpskog_geografskog_drustva/1921/b005#page/131/mode/1up Смиљанић, Тома. Пастирски живот код Миjака, Гласник српског географског друштва, Свеска 5, Београд, 1921, с. 232.]</ref><ref>Матов, Милан. За премълчаното в историята на ВМРО. Спомени, Второ издание София 2011, с. 58.</ref> They are a minority religious group in [[North Macedonia]], although not all espouse a [[ethnic Macedonian|Macedonian]] national identity and are linguistically distinct from the larger Muslim ethnic groups in the country, [[Albanians in North Macedonia|Albanians]] and [[Turks in North Macedonia|Turks]]. However the estimated 100,000 Pomaks in North Macedonia maintain a strong affiliation to the Turkish identity.<ref name=pomaks/>