Pomak

The Pomak is a Bulgarian language with Turkish loanwords dialect speaking group, who adopted Islam at the time of the Ottoman empire. Pomak Men are circumcised , mostly in a big mass sünnet ceremony , Their Ancestors are said once was the Thracians. They live in the Rhodope Mountains at the Smolyan Province, in their own villages with Tobacco farms. They hold on a strictly Endogamy Arranged marriage. Mostly Pomaks are tall, have blond hair and blue eyes.

Pomaks live in Bulgaria in the Rhodope Mountain, in Greece and in Turkey.

They hold many old own traditions, music, and folk songs.

Pomak Media

• Bayryam (Eid) in the village of Vaklinovo in the beginning of the 20th century.

• Ethnographic map of European Turkey from the late 19th century, showing the regions largely populated by Pomaks in brown.

• Джамията в село Туховища

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  Medusa Pomak village, Xanthi, Thrace, Greece