What is Bulgarians?
{{Infobox ethnic group | group = Bulgarians | native_name = българи<br>{{small|balgari}} | image = | caption = | population = {{circa}} '''7-8 million'''<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vf4TBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA271 |title=Native Bulgarian people's of the World |work=google.bg|isbn=9781317464006 |last1=Danver |first1=Steven L. |date=2015-03-10 |publisher=Routledge }}</ref><ref name=Cole>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M9fDifnkMJMC&pg=PA55 |title=Ethnic Groups of Europe: An Encyclopedia|work=google.bg|isbn=9781598843033|last1=Cole|first1=Jeffrey E.|author-link1=Jeffrey Cole|date=2011-05-25|publisher=Abc-Clio }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UM3BMtn6TmcC&pg=PA16 |title=On the Margins of Nations |work=google.bg|isbn=9780953824861 |last1=Conference |first1=Foundation for Endangered Languages |last2=Argenter |first2=Joan A. |last3=McKenna Brown |first3=R. |year=2004 |publisher=Institut d'Estudis Catalans }}</ref> [[File:Map of the Bulgarian Diaspora in the World.svg|center|frameless|260x260px]] | popplace = {{flagcountry|Bulgaria}} 5,500,000 (2021) | region1 = {{flag|Germany}} | pop1 = 410,885[ }} '''Bulgarians''' are a [[South Slavs|South Slavic]]<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/topic/Slav Slavs]</ref><ref>{{cite book| last = Minahan| first = James| title = One Europe, Many Nations: A Historical Dictionary of European National Groups| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=NwvoM-ZFoAgC&pg=PA134| accessdate = 2011-11-13| year = 2000| publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group| isbn = 978-0-313-30984-7 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.academia.edu/32675557/Cultural_Proximity_of_the_Slavic_Nations |title=Cultural Proximity of the Slavic Nations |access-date=2018-08-26 |archive-date=2019-12-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191208053220/https://www.academia.edu/32675557/Cultural_Proximity_of_the_Slavic_Nations |url-status=dead }}</ref> people from southeast [[Europe]].