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 The ethnic minority of Turks was subjected to forced cultural assimilation beginning in 1984. In May 1989 Turkey announced its willingness to accept ethnic Turks from Bulgaria. Before August 1989 when Turkey closed the border, 310,000 Bulgarian Turks had fled to Turkey. More than 50,000 returned following the adoption of democratic reforms by a new leadership in late 1989.
-'''Population'''
-The Bulgarian population grew slowly until the 18th century. It stood at 3 million in 1885 when it was augmented by the territory of Eastern Rumelia. There were 8.5 million Bulgarians by 1994. The distribution of the population by ethnic group was 86% Bulgarians, 9% Turks, and 5% Gypsies, Macedonians, Armenians, and Russians.
-Bulgarian is the primary language. It is a southern Slavic tongue and is written in the Cyrillic script. Records were kept in Bulgarian, Turkish, Greek, and Old Church Slavonic.
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