Topic: Islamization of rhodopes

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The Ottomans and the Balkans : Fikret Adanır, Prof. Suraiya Faroqhi

http://books.google.com.tr/books?id=4gNQtt2s1wMC&pg=PA261&lpg=PA261&dq=islamization+of+rhodopes&source=bl&ots=25-0Kv1pDU&sig=61NaToqxQzFvtlvv5kdoqplkC8s&hl=tr&ei=HPJmStvrMqKInQOyvdyjDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2



A history of Islamic societies : Ira Marvin Lapidus

http://books.google.com.tr/books?id=I3mVUEzm8xMC&pg=PA253&lpg=PA253&dq=islamization+of+rhodopes&source=bl&ots=0Vv2V3DomK&sig=Hs7mWQwMnLE_43KTFv7rRJ0F0qk&hl=tr&ei=GutmSuXRM5igngON_7z4Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9

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Book:Turkish and other Muslim minorities in Bulgaria
Author: Ali Eminov, Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs

"Most conversations to Islam in Bulgaria were of the individual variety. A few large-scale conversations occurred 1660 s and again in the beginning of the eighteenth century in the Rhodope region of the southeastern Bulgaria. According to Vryonis (1972:172), some 74 villages in the Rhodope region of Bulgaria converted to İslam. However there is no reliable evidence to support the claim of Vryonis (1972: 168) that these conversations were “occasioned by the pressures of war and accompanied by the presence of expeditionary armies and heavy tax extortions.”

http://books.google.com.tr/books?id=q9ZS0B0dYHMC&pg=PA44&dq=islamization+of+rhodopes&ei=NydnSqHWJY3WygSLypW5BA