Between Two Motherlands – Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgar…

Between Two MotherlandsNationality and Emigration Among the Greeks of Bulgaria, 19001949\nAuthor(s): Theodora Dragostinova\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801449451, 978-0801449451\nSynopsis\nIn 1900, some 100,000 people living in Bulgaria2 percent of the country's populationcould be described as Greek, whether by nationality, language, or religion. The complex identities of the populationproud heirs of ancient Hellenic colonists, loyal citizens of their Bulgarian homeland, members of a wider Greek diasporic community, devout followers of the Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul, and reluctant supporters of the Greek government in Athensbecame entangled in the growing national tensions between Bulgaria and Greece during the first half of the twentieth century. \n\n In Between Two Motherlands, Theodora Dragostinova explores the shifting allegiances of this Greek minority in Bulgaria. Diverse social gro.