Hadji Hassan Mahala
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Hadji Hassan Mahala is the third biggest Roma ghetto
in Plovdiv
, Bulgaria
. With a population
of 8,000, residents generally regard themselves as being of the Turkish
ethnicity. They do not identify themselves as part of the communities living in Stolipinovo
and Sheker Mahala
.
Ghetto
A ghetto is a section of a city predominantly occupied by a group who live there, especially because of social, economic, or legal issues.The term was originally used in Venice to describe the area where Jews were compelled to live. The term now refers to an overcrowded urban area often associated...
in Plovdiv
Plovdiv
Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia with a population of 338,153 inhabitants according to Census 2011. Plovdiv's history spans some 6,000 years, with traces of a Neolithic settlement dating to roughly 4000 BC; it is one of the oldest cities in Europe...
, Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
. With a population
Population
A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...
of 8,000, residents generally regard themselves as being of the Turkish
Turkish people
Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...
ethnicity. They do not identify themselves as part of the communities living in Stolipinovo
Stolipinovo
Stolipinovo is a district of the Bulgarian town of Plovdiv and the most populous predominantly Roma-inhabited district on the Balkans with a population of about 45,000 people...
and Sheker Mahala
Sheker Mahala
Sheker Mahala is the second biggest Roma ghetto in Plovdiv. Its population is 10 000. Only 2 000 of them identify themselves as Roma, the rest identify themselves as people of Turkish origin. The district is in the northwestern outskirts of the town....
.