 By the end of the process, there were around 250,000 Circassians in the Balkans, accounting for 5 to 7 percent of the total Balkan population, on top of the earlier arrival of 100,000 Crimean Tatars that Balkan populations had just recently had to absorb.Kadir Natho notes that "a net of Circassian settlements enveloped practically all the European part of the Ottoman Empire".Very large numbers of Circassians were settled in Bulgaria.