There is a Bulgarian minority of Catholic faith, known as the Banat Bulgarians, who have historically been the dominant ethnicity in Vinga.

The Bulgarian government and some of the people in the regions in question claim that a Bulgarian minority does exist.

The Banat Bulgarians are a Bulgarian minority in Romania and Serbia adhering to Roman Catholicism.

The church belongs to the Bulgarian minority in the city.

If Romania had an important Bulgarian minority, concentrated mainly in Dobruja, there also was an important Romanian minority in Bulgaria.

Romania was afraid that the existence of a Bulgarian minority in Northern Dobruja could be used by Bulgaria for further territorial concessions.

Apart from the Greeks, it was also inhabited by many Turks and Western Europeans, a very large Jewish community, and a substantial Bulgarian minority.

This is especially important for the Bulgarian minority in Moldova as well, which lives in one of the poorest economic regions in the country.

The Bulgarian minority was deprived of the rights earned during the Romanian control.

In contrast with the previous period of Romanian control, most cultural and educational rights of the Bulgarian minority were not returned.