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Pomaks Are
People The
World Forgot
(By Daniel De Luce)
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On the Greco-Bulgarian Fron- j
tier—They are a people that the
world forgot. They live in a no
man's land where the only law is
a gun.
The Pomaks are an example of
Communism socking the poor. (
Of this “lost race” inside Eu
rope, historians confess that noth
ing of its origin is certain. Po
maks are not even mentioned in
most famous encyclopaedias.
There are, however, 350,000 Po
maks along both sides of the Gre
co-Bulgarian border, clinging to
tiny, rocks farms in the Rodope
mountains which their forefathers
settled before a Norman conquer
or set food in England.
They are Moslems but seem to
have no blood kinship with the
Turks, although they once fough* (
for the Ottoman Empire. Many
have blond hair, blue eyes and al
most Nordic features.
Their females are veiled from
the cradle to the grave. Elders
have visited Mecca cry the words
of Mohammed from needle-point
ed minarets, but most of the faith
ful have never been farther than
25 miles from where they were
born.
Much of the mountain territory
sprinkled with Pomak villages is,
by default, under Communist con
trol in the Creek civil war. "Tax
es" of corn, donkeys and home
woven clothing are collected with
sub-machine guns.
In one afternoon, I saw half the
population of Pachni, a mile from
Bulgaria, flee to Glavki, a village
four miles deeper within Greece,
because Greek rebels demanded a
ton of corn.
Taking advantage of the rebels'
daylight absence, the villagers
trekked off with wives, children
and winter food reserves, since at
Glavki they could be protected by
an outpost of 90 Royalist troops.
Glavki was quiet. Soldiers doze.I
at lookout stations while young,
bare-bottomed Pomaks begged r
share of their American rations.
Old women trudged in with huge
bundles of firewood on their
stooped backs. Tobacco was hung
out to dry on racks beside sagging
stone-and-timber houses.
At dusk, the village locked it
self in. All windows were shuttered
and doors bolted. A new squad,
more alert, took over the lookout
duty. Night belongs to the rebels.
Pomaks, some students theorize,
may be originally of Bulgar stock
or a tribe—Kumans or Pecenegn
—which wandered south across
the Danube in the 11th Century
to halt in the peaks of Thrace.
Fifty thousand are under the
Greek flag, 300,000 in Bulgaria.
When western statesmen, in
1878, carved up the Sultan's do
main in Europe. 21 Pomak villages
fought off the acquisitive Bulgars
and set up an independent repub
lic. Bulgaria annexed it in 1886
and that was the last of Pomak
self-rule.
Perhaps with tongue in cheek,
Greece sent a Pomak delegation to
the Paris peace conference Iasi
year. Bulgaria was demandin'
Greek Thrace. The Pomaks claim
ed part of Bulgaria. The confer
ence snubbed both.
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