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During the Byzantine Empire Armenians were present in the Balkans in relatively large numbers. Some of the rulers of Byzantium and Bulgaria for example were of Armenian descent (eg. Basil I the Macedonian, Tsar Samuel...). There was even a Armenian division of the Macedono-Adrianople Volunteer Corps that fought in the 2nd Balkan war. Does anyone know how/why they came to live in the Balkans, and what happened to them after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. It seems strange that they do not appear as a minority in any of the modern Balkan states.
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