Romanians in Bulgaria

[4] The German linguist Gustav Weigand dealt in the most detailed and concrete way with the Vlach population south of the Danube.

In 1905 he undertook a special trip through Bulgaria to establish where the Vlach settlements are located and to characterize their language.

According to Weigand, the largest group of Vlach population moved to the Bulgarian lands in the 1830s, when the so-called Organic statute (1831), was introduced in Walachia, by virtue of which men were subject to mandatory military service.

Using the data from the population census in the Principality of Bulgaria in 1900, he pointed out that, at the end of the 19th century, 86,000 Vlachs were registered in Bulgaria, of which 11,708 (about 15%) were born north of the river, which means that they moved south of the Danube in the second half of the 19th century.

[7] According to the Treaty of Craiova of 1940, Bulgaria and Romania exchanged a large part of the minorities living on their territory.