Editing Pomaks (section)

=== Bulgaria ===
{{Main|Bulgarian Muslims}}
The Pomaks in Bulgaria are referred to as ''[[Bulgarian Muslims]]'' (българи-мюсюлмани ''Balgari-Myusyulmani''), and under the locally used names ''Ahryani'' (pejorative, meaning "infidels"<ref name="Nitsiakos2008">{{cite book|author=Basilēs G. Nitsiakos|title=Balkan Border Crossings: First Annual of the Konitsa Summer School|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M0NjLLVK18cC&pg=PA189|year=2008|publisher=LIT Verlag Münster|isbn=978-3-8258-0918-8|page=189}}</ref>), Pogantsi, Poturani, Poturnatsi, Eruli, Charaklii, etc.<ref name="Apostolov2001">{{cite book|author=Mario Apostolov|title=Religious Minorities, Nation States, and Security: Five Cases from the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qr0nAAAAYAAJ|date=1 January 2001|publisher=Ashgate|isbn=978-0-7546-1677-1}}</ref> They mainly inhabit the [[Rhodope Mountains]] in [[Smolyan Province]], [[Kardzhali Province]], [[Pazardzhik Province]] and [[Blagoevgrad Province]]. There are Pomaks in other parts of Bulgaria as well. There are a few Pomak villages in [[Burgas Province]], [[Lovech Province]], [[Veliko Tarnovo Province]] and [[Ruse Province]].<ref name="geo bound">{{cite book
|last=Raichevsky |first=Stoyan|title=The Mohammedan Bulgarians (Pomaks) |others=Pencheva, Maya (translator)|publisher=National Museum of Bulgaria|location=Sofia|isbn=978-954-9308-41-9|chapter=Geographical Boundaries|year=2004}}</ref> Officially no ethnic Pomaks are recorded, while 67,000 declared [[Muslim Bulgarians|Muslim and ethnic Bulgarian]] identity,<ref name=nsi2011/> down from 131,000 who declared Muslim Bulgarian identity at the 2001 census.<ref>{{cite web| title = Structure of the population by religion| work = Census 2001| publisher = National Statistical Institute| url = http://www.nsi.bg/Census/StrReligion.htm| language = bg| access-date = 4 November 2008| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091225163107/http://www.nsi.bg/Census/StrReligion.htm| archive-date = 25 December 2009| url-status = dead}}</ref> Unofficially, there may be between 150,000<ref name=pomaks1>{{cite book|author=Janusz Bugajski|title=Ethnic Politics in Eastern Europe: A Guide to Nationality Policies, Organizations, and Parties|url=https://archive.org/details/ethnicpoliticsin0000buga|url-access=registration|year=1994|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=978-1-56324-282-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ethnicpoliticsin0000buga/page/235 235]–}}</ref> and 250,000<ref name=pomaks/> Pomaks in Bulgaria, though maybe not in the ethnic sense as one part declare Bulgarian, another part – Turkish ethnic identity. During the 20th century the Pomaks in Bulgaria were the subject of three state-sponsored forced assimilation campaigns – in 1912, the 1940s and the 1960s and 1970s which included the change of their Turkish-Arabic names to ethnic Bulgarian Christian Orthodox ones and in the first campaign conversions from Islam to Eastern Orthodoxy. The first two campaigns were abandoned after a few years, while the third was reversed in 1989. The campaigns were carried out under the pretext that the Pomaks as ancestral Christian Bulgarians who had been converted to Islam and who therefore needed to be repatriated back to the national domain. These attempts were met with stiff resistance by many Pomaks.<ref>DIMITROV, VESSELIN: [http://www.ecmi.de/uploads/tx_lfpubdb/JEMIE01Dimitrov10-07-01.pdf "In Search of a Homogeneous Nation: The Assimilation of Bulgaria's Turkish Minority, 1984–1985"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718112057/http://www.ecmi.de/uploads/tx_lfpubdb/JEMIE01Dimitrov10-07-01.pdf |date=18 July 2011 }}, London School of Economics, UK 23 December 2000</ref>