Арменците в България и техният фолклор
The Folklore of the Armenians in Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: The Armenians who had suffered three times severe genocides tend to retell mainly memorates about unbelievable cruelties, as well about migrations and emigrant life. Their folk narratives, because of the universal need of a specific “narrative atmosphere” in the process of narration, have undergone a radical change: the tale repertoire has been abandoned for the new memorate narratives which already function as epic ones. The latter have their well built structure, thematic and motif differentiation, as well. The group under consideration also performs some old Armenian songs, but without differentiating between artistic and folk ones; important is only the fact that they are Armenian. The Armenians in Bulgaria have their active clubs. They (although not everywhere) have their churches and special educational possibilities to study their mother tongue, too. Three Armenian newspapers are published nowadays in Bulgaria (in Sofia, in Plovdiv and in Burgas) and they are issued simultaneously in Armenian and in Bulgarian. Specific for the Armenians is the fact that they maintain strong social relations within their group, but are also fully integrated in the Bulgarian society where they feel natives.

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