Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Alamar farko ta ƙaura daga Bulgaria zuwa Ostiraliya ta fara ne daga 1876, lokacin da ba a san adadin 'yan Bulgarian da ke tserewa daga zaluncin Ottoman ba bayan tashin hankalin Afrilu ya zauna a Queensland da Tasmania. Dangane da ƙididdigar 1891, 'yan Bulgaria 14 ne kawai ke zaune a Ostiraliya. Bayan tashin hankali na Ilinden Preobrazhenie da ke adawa da Ottoman
na 1908, kimanin 'yan Bulgarian 100 daga Makidoniya da kudancin Thrace sun yi hijira zuwa Ostiraliya. An kafa mulkin mallaka na farko na Bulgarian a Perth, Western Australia, a cikin 1906-1907.