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A prelude of Ottoman genocides: The tragedy of Thracian Bulgarians
Thrace is a historical region in the southeastern Balkans, bounded by the Maritsa River, the Aegean Sea, the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara and the Sredna Gora mountain range. Today, the area is divided between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece, which control Northern, Eastern and Western Thrace, respectively. From the 15th to the early 20th century, the region was part of the Ottoman Empire, under whose rule a multicultural and multiethnic environment flourished. According to estimates published in th
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The Turks, then as now, have been among the most oppressive and cruelest rulers to have reigned on Earth. The list of ethnic groups and nations they ruled, oppressed, exploited, enslaved, persecuted, massacred, and attempted to annihilate is long: Bulgarians, Greeks, Albanians, Serbs, Croats, Romanians, Hungarians, Ukrainians, Circassians, Georgians, Laz, Abkhazians, Ubykh, Ossetians, Gagauz (Christian Orthodox Turks), Arabs, Assyrians, Kurds, and of course Armenians. The “legacy” of the Turks is one of centuries-long exploitation and massacres of all subjugated peoples who struggled to break free from their tyrannical rule.