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The Banat Bulgarians (Banat Bulgarian: ''palćene'' or ''banátsći balgare''; common (ブルガリア語:банатски българи, ''banatski balgari'')) are a distinct Bulgarian minority group which settled in the 18th century in the region of the Banat, which was then ruled by the Habsburgs and after World War I was divided between Romania, Serbia, and Hungary. Unlike most other Bulgarians, they are Roman Catholic by confession and stem from groups of Paulicians and Roman Catholics from modern northern and northwestern Bulgaria. Banat Bulgarians speak a distinctive codified form of the Eastern Bulgarian vernacular with much lexical influence from the other languages of the Banat. Although strongly acculturated to the Central European region, they have preserved their Bulgarian identity. Since the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, many have returned to Bulgaria and founded separate villages there. == Population == The official Romanian census states that 6,468 people of Bulgarian origin inhabit the Romanian part of the Banat. The Serbian census of 2002 recognized 1,658 Bulgarians in Vojvodina, the autonomous province that covers the Serbian part of the Banat. Bulgarian researchers estimate that 12,000 Banat Bulgarians live in Romania and 3,000 in Serbia.〔 The earliest and most important centres of the Banat Bulgarian population are the villages of Dudeştii Vechi (''Stár Bišnov'') and Vinga, both today in Romania, but notable communities also exist in Romania in Breştea (''Bréšća''), Colonia Bulgară (''Telepa'') and Denta (''Dénta''), and the cities of Timişoara (''Timišvár'') and Sânnicolau Mare (''Smikluš''), as well as in Serbia in the villages of Ivanovo, Konak (''Kanak''), Jaša Tomić (''Modoš''), and Skorenovac (''Gjurgevo'').〔Нягулов, ''Банатските българи'', p. 23.〕 In Bulgaria, returning Banat Bulgarians populated the villages of Asenovo, Bardarski Geran, Dragomirovo, Gostilya, and Bregare,〔 among others, in some of which they coexist or coexisted with Banat Swabians, other Bulgarian Roman Catholics, and Eastern Orthodox Bulgarians.〔Нягулов, ''Банатските българи'', p. 92.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Banat Bulgarians」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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