UNRECOGNIZED POPULATION CENSUSES IN THE HISTORY OF BULGARIAN STATISTICS

Ivan Balev

Abstract: This article has statistical and historical character. It is dedicated to the two population censuses conducted at the end of XIX century in the autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia, constituted by the Great Powers in the Treaty of Berlin (1878). Used are collected and published rich statistical data that clearly and explicitly present the picture in that detached part of Bulgaria. The data illustrate the ethnic composition of the population. Regardless to the missing methodological framework the data precisely reproduce the situation in Eastern Rumelia on spatial distribution of different ethnic groups, as well as the existence of "pure" settlements inhabited only by representatives of one ethnic group, as well as settlements, which have been jointly inhabited by representatives of three and more ethnic groups. The author defends the thesis about the recognition of these population censuses as part of the history of Bulgarian statistics.

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Date published: 2014-11-06