Book on Bulgarian and Greek refugees to be presented in Yambol

Professor Ivan Kanev’s book Bulgarians from Thrace and Greeks from the Aegean – Refugees in Bulgaria will be presented in Yambol on 3 November at a meeting with the author. The event begins at 5 p.m. at the House of Science and Technology, BTA reported, citing the organisers from the local Thracian association, Trakia.

The book traces three waves of migration: Bulgarians fleeing Ottoman Thrace in 1913; Bulgarians leaving Western Thrace, mainly in 1924; and Greeks from the Aegean who, over the centuries, settled along the Black Sea coast and in towns in southern Bulgaria along the Maritsa, Arda and Tundzha rivers and their tributaries. Professor Kanev draws on material from Bulgaria’s Central State Archives for his research.

Edited by Miglena Ivanova