A shekara ta 1323, Daular Usmaniyya ta kama Tarnovo, babban birnin Daular Bulgeriya ta Biyu , bayan da aka shafe watanni uku ana killace.A shekara ta 1326, Vidin Tsardom ya fadi bayan cin nasara a yakin Nicopolis.Da wannan ne Ottoman suka mamaye Bulgaria suka mamaye kasar.^{[32 <>]} Wani ́yan tawayen Poland da Hungary wanda Władysław na 3 na Poland ya ba da umurni ya tashi don yantar da Bulgaria da Balkan a shekara ta 1444, amma Turkawa sun yi nasara a yaƙin Varna.Sabbin hukumomin sun wargaza cibiyoyin Bulgaria kuma suka haɗa Ikilisiyar Bulgaria daban-daban zuwa cikin Ecumenical Patriarchate a Constantinople (ko da yake wani ɗan ƙaramin Archbishop na Bulgaria na Ohrid ya rayu har zuwa Janairu 1767).Mahukuntan Turkiyya sun rusa galibin sansanonin 'yan gudun hijira na Bulgaria don hana tawaye.Manyan garuruwa da wuraren da ikon Ottoman suka mamaye sun kasance cikin lalacewa sosai har zuwa karni na 19.^[33]Daular Usmaniyya ba ta cika bukatar Kiristoci su zama Musulmi ba.Duk da haka, akwai lokuta da yawa na tilasta musuluntar mutum ko taro, musamman a cikin Rhodopes.'Yan Bulgarian da suka musulunta, 'yan Pomak, sun ci gaba da rike yaren Bulgaria, tufafi da wasu al'adun da suka dace da Musulunci.^[32]Tsarin Ottoman ya fara raguwa a karni na 17 kuma a ƙarshen 18th duk ya rushe.Gwamnatin tsakiya ta raunana a cikin shekaru da yawa kuma wannan ya ba da damar da yawa daga cikin masu rike da manyan kadarori na Ottoman don kafa matsayi na kansu a kan yankuna daban-daban.^{[34 <>]} A cikin shekaru ashirin da suka gabata na 18th da farkon shekarun ƙarni na 19, yankin Balkan ya narke cikin ruɗani.^[32]Al'adar Bulgaria ta kira wannan lokacin kurdjaliistvo: makada na Turkawa da ake kira kurdjalii sun addabi yankin.A yankuna da yawa, dubban manoma sun gudu daga karkara ko dai zuwa garuruwan gida ko (mafi yawan) zuwa tsaunuka ko dazuzzuka;wasu ma sun gudu daga Danube zuwa Moldova, Wallachia ko kudancin Rasha.^[32] Rushewar hukumomin Ottoman kuma ya ba da damar sake farfado da al'adun Bulgariya a hankali, wanda ya zama muhimmin sashi a cikin akidar 'yantar da kasa.A hankali yanayi ya inganta a wasu wurare a ƙarni na 19.Wasu garuruwa - irin su Gabrovo, Tryavna, Karlovo, Koprivshtitsa, Lovech, Skopie - sun wadata.Mazaunan Bulgaria sun mallaki ƙasarsu, duk da cewa na sultan ne a hukumance.Karni na 19 kuma ya kawo ingantattun hanyoyin sadarwa, sufuri da kasuwanci.An buɗe masana'anta na farko a ƙasashen Bulgaria a Sliven a cikin 1834 kuma tsarin layin dogo na farko ya fara aiki (tsakanin Rousse da Varna) a cikin 1865.