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The stories - subject of this book - were invented in different latitudes during different historical periods, from different societies and different political situation. They tell about the same process - the adoption of Islam in the Balkans, thought somewhere and once as a liberation and national awareness elsewhere and at other times - as a catastrophe. The only official history tells many fragmented stories produced by larger or smaller groups, by more or less people. The stories are alike and not alike. They sometime match. And sometime they repel each other. Or disagree.

Jorge Kosikov is a Brazilian lawyer and writer of Bulgarian origin. Among the Bulgarians in South America, Jorge Kosikov is known as a missionary of Bulgarian history and culture. Jorge Kosikov is a descendant of two waves of immigration - one from Bessarabia during the Ottoman rule in the late 18th and early 19th century and the other from Bessarabia to South America in the early 20th century. In this book the author explores and describes the Bessarabian Bulgarians and Gagauz colonies in four Brazilian states: ""Aurora"", ""Baliza"", ""Concordia"" (""Buri""), ""Esperanza"", ""Fethiseiro"", ""New Bessarabia"", ""Page"", ""Prata"", ""Setenta"", ""Concordia"" (Parana), ""Terra Rica"", ""Colonia Velha"", ""Lajeado Enrique"", as well as the Uruguayan ""Concordia""