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Wikipedia: The Banat Bulgarians are a distinct Bulgarian minority group which settled in the 18th century in the region of the Banat, which was then ruled by the Habsburgs and after World War I was divided between Romania, Serbia, and Hungary. Unlike most other Bulgarians, they are Roman Catholic by confession and stem from groups of Paulicians and Roman Catholics from modern northern and northwestern Bulgaria. Banat Bulgarians speak a distinctive codified form of the Eastern Bulgarian vernacular with much lexical influence from the other languages of the Banat.
![[Liturgy in the Bulgarian church in Dudeştii Vechi]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Star_beshenov_liturgiq_s.jpg "Liturgy in the Bulgarian church in Dudeştii Vechi")
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![[A rare occasion of Banat Bulgarian written in Cyrillic letters in Gostilya, Bulgaria]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Gostilya_plaque_s.jpg "A rare occasion of Banat Bulgarian written in Cyrillic letters in Gostilya, Bulgaria")
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 from Svetlana Karadzhova |
from Svetlana Karadzhova |
![[Inscription about [[Bishop (Catholic Church)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Star_beshenov_cyrkva_nadpis_1_s.jpg "Inscription about [[Bishop (Catholic Church)")
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![[The Roman Catholic Church in Ivanovo, Serbia]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Ivanovo_serbia_1_s.jpg "The Roman Catholic Church in Ivanovo, Serbia")
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from Svetlana Karadzhova |
from Svetlana Karadzhova |
![[A formal Banat Bulgarian female costume dating to the 19th century]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Vratsa_ethnomuseum_Banat_female_festive_costume_s.jpg "A formal Banat Bulgarian female costume dating to the 19th century")
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