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Pomak|ˈpəʊmæk|
[Bulg.]
A Muslim Bulgarian.
1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 149/2 Those Bulgarians who have embraced Islam are called Pomaks,—a word of which no satisfactory derivation has been given. 1897E. A. Bartlett Battlefields Thessaly iii. 49 The local militia were mostly Pomaks, or Mussulman Bulgarians. 1900‘Odysseus’ Turkey in Europe viii. 363 The country between Seres and Philippopoli is inhabited by people called Pomaks, who are commonly described as Mohammedan Bulgarians. 1921Contemp. Rev. May 587 It is not unusual to find that in any computation made by the Greeks,..the Pomaks—i.e., Bulgarians who have embraced the Mohammedan faith, are reckoned with the Turks. 1972D. Dakin Unification of Greece 269 The Slav minority, which included 16,000 Pomaks, was about 80,000. |