Bulgarianisation (Centre of Europe)

Bulgarianisation, also called the Bulgarianisation of History or simply Bulgarisation describes a movement that took place in the Kingdom of Bulgaria in the early to mid 20th century following the Greco-Bulgarian War, characterised by the rewriting of Ancient Greek history by Bulgarian historians and philosophers to support a more "Bulgarocentric" view.

The term is also sometimes used to refer to the Expulsion of Greeks from Southern Macedonia, which some argue was a direct result of Bulgarianisation and occasionally the Large-Scale Migration of Albanians Away from Macedonia.

Key characteristics of Bulgarianisation include:
 * The belief that modern-day Bulgarians are descended from and are the true successors to the Ancient Greeks, as well as the Byzantine Empire.
 * The idea that modern Greeks are unrelated to the Ancient Greeks and that the lands of ancient Greece rightfully belong to Bulgaria.
 * The general promotion of hatred and racism towards Greeks by likening them to occupiers and invaders.

Goals
The primary goal of Bulgarianisation was to benefit the Bulgarian state in several ways:
 * By bolstering Bulgarian national pride
 * By strengthening Bulgarian historical claims to the southern balkans

Criticisms
Outside of Bulgaria, Bulgarianisation is largely seen as an ideology attempting to rewrite world history to shine a better light onto Bulgaria. Many blame the ideology for radicalising the Bulgarian public and see it as one of the direct causes of the Greek Genocide of the 20th century.