Pomaks (Bulgarian: Помаци, romanized: Pomatsi; Macedonian: Помаци Greek: Πομάκοι, romanized: Pomáki; Turkish: Pomaklar) are Bulgarian-speaking Muslims inhabiting Bulgaria, northwestern Turkey, and northeastern Greece. [9]

A religious minority of Bulgarian-speaking Muslims, the Pomaks now live dispersed in five Balkan countries: Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece, Albania and Turkey.

波马克人 （保加利亚语： Помаци Pomatsi， 希腊语： Πομάκοι Pomáki， 土耳其语： Pomaklar）是指居住在 保加利亚 、信仰伊斯兰教的 斯拉夫人。 亦称 保加利亚裔穆斯林。 ^ Minahan, James. Encyclopedia of the stateless nations 3, L-R 1. publ. Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press. 2002: 1516. ISBN 978-0-313-32111-5. ^ Ethnologue, Languages of Greece.Bulgarian.. [2012-12-17]. （原始内容 存档 于2013-07-05）.

Bulgarian-speaking Muslims, commonly known as Pomaks, are most probably descendants of Bulgarian Christians who converted to Islam during the period of Ottoman rule, while retaining the Bulgarian language as well as certain Orthodox practices.

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 ...

The term "Pomak" refers to Bulgarians who converted to Islam during the Ottoman occupation, beginning in the latter portion of the 1300s. During the Communist period of forced assimilation in Bulgaria (1970s and 1980s), the term disappeared from official use.

Pomaks represent a Muslim minority which can be found in several states in the South-Eastern Europe region. This paper will focus on their position in Bulgaria and Greece. In Bulgaria, Pomaks are mainly residing in the central parts of the Rhodope Mountains, while in

Pomaks are Bulgarian-speaking Muslims inhabiting Bulgaria, northwestern Turkey, and northeastern Greece. The c. 220,000 strong ethno-confessional minority in Bu...

‘Pomak’ is one of the designations and self-designations of Muslim Bulgarians which came to be used in public discourse during the National Revival in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Over the past several decades, the modernization of transportation and communications have drawn the Pomaks more and more into mainstream Bulgarian life, but they have maintained some degree of distinctiveness nonetheless.