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The Pomaks: A Religious Minority in the Balkans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Mario Apostolov
Mario Apostolov*
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Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
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A religious minority of Bulgarian-speaking Muslims, the Pomaks now live dispersed in five Balkan countries: Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece, Albania and Turkey. A living legacy of the complexities of Balkan history, the Pomaks represent a perfect case to study interstate political intricacies around the unsettled identity of small inter-communal groups. An examination of this community should enrich the knowledge about the nature of Balkan Islam that stands on the periphery of the Arab-Iranian-Turkic Islamic heartland, the three peoples who carried the major burden of Islamic history.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , December 1996 , pp. 727 - 742
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Copyright © 1996 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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