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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 11,400[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Sofia,Plovdiv,Varna,Burgas | |
| Languages | |
| Arabic language Bulgarian language | |
| Religion | |
| Islam andChristianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Arab people,Arab diaspora,Arab Americans,Arab Argentine,Arab Brazilian,Arab Canadians,Arab Mexican |
Arabs in Bulgaria (Bulgarian:Араби в България,Arabic:العرب في بلغاريا) are the people fromArab countries, particularlyLebanon,Syria, thePalestine,Iraq, andJordan and also small groups fromEgypt,Algeria,Tunisia,Morocco,Libya andSudan, who emigrated from their native nations and currently reside in Bulgaria. In the over forty-year history of this community, 11,400 Arabs have migrated to Bulgaria.[1] According to other data from two teams of anthropologists and sociologists, the number of Arabs in Bulgaria who are legal residents and officially have work permits was 17,000 in 2004. (the number 17,000 includes not only Arabs but also Kurds, Afghans, Berber and others.)[2][3]
In addition, Bulgaria has people from Arab countries, who have the status of refugees (refugees of the Syrian civil war, but only 10% of them are Syrian Arabs, the other 90% of them areSyrian Kurds)[4] or illegal immigrants trying to immigrate to Western Europe.
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