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Bulgaria Information - Country Guides

The population of Bulgaria is made up of 85 percent of ethnic Bulgarian and 9 percent of Turkish people. The remaining 6 percent is made up of small groups of Armenians, Roma (Gypsies), Greeks, and Macedonian Slavs. Around 67 percent of these people live in urban areas. The official language is Bulgarian and is spoken by about 90 percent of the population while Turkish is also widely spoken by the minority groups.

Traditional Bulgarian music includes folk songs and plain chants in the Greek mode for church services. The chief native musical instruments consists of the gaida (bagpipe) and the kaval (a wooden shepherd's flute). The folk dances include hora, a round chain dance, and the ruchenitsa, a lively dance of two couples. Modern Bulgarian orchestral and operatic compositions have occasionally gained recognition in other countries. Among leading 20th-century composers are Petko Stainov and Pancho Vladigerov.

Introduction and Background to Bulgaria
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