 Bulgarian, being the official language, is spoken fluently by almost all Armenians in the country.The Armenians that settled between the 6th and the 11th century in the Rhodopes, Thrace and Macedonia were several thousand in number, mostly Paulicians and Tondrakians and had very strong communal ties.They had very strong ties and influenced the Bulgarian sect of the Bogomils and were later assimilated into it, Bulgarianized and later converted to Roman Catholicism ("see Roman Catholicism in Bulgaria") or Islam ("see Pomaks").