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Comment on Ethnic Bulgaria. by dobri

dobri — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:37:50 +0000

The Bulgarian population is a mixture of Thrace, Slavs and Bulgars. Thrace are pretty much the oldest, still distinguishable, people on the Balkan peninsula, Slavs are usually blue eyed and blond haired. As for Bulgars or proto-Bulgarians – they are not Turkish, at best turkic (there’s a sharp difference) and that’s an Encyclopedia Britanica kind of thing, thats only based on similarities between the original Bulgars’ language (of which almost nothing is left) and turkic languages of the times. The culture of the Bulgars was way too advanced, compared to any other(?) turkic tribe(?), in fact to any european one, except for Greek and Roman (well, Greece did not exist at the moment, so we’re really left only with the Roman). Well, and the Thrace, altho Thrace were part of the Roman Empire at the moment, also. So there is no connection between Bulgars and Turkic peoples of the times, except for the language, that’s not really turkic either. And that can easily be written as cultural influence, rather than origin. No one knows where the Bulgars came from up until now, and now no one knows that either, including Britanica. You can distinguish between “Ethnic Bulgarians” and Turks by the color of the skin and the facial features, I’m sorry if it sounds racist but it’s really that obvious The kerchief thing is muslim, I’ve never heard of Boboshevo, as for the Turks and the Gypsies – they’ve always had the opportunities the Bulgarians has but they’ve almost never used them.

If you want to know why you can not trust Britanica on this one – look at the Berlin Congress of 1878, the liberation of Bulgaria, the Russo-Turkish wars and the borders and history of The First and The Second Bulgarian Empire.

Comment on Pictures! by vessie

vessie — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:36:07 +0000

Thanks a lot for posting this beauty.

Comment on Stuff about Bulgaria. by vessie

vessie — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:30:19 +0000

Bulgarians don’t like their slavic brothers – serbians either, because of the Macedonian problem, who still exist in now days (serbians continuing with assimiliation of bulgarian population, by rewriting the history and limiting their human rights). The assimilation process of ethnical bulgarians in the west part of Serbia slow down now.

Comment on Communist architechture. by vessie

vessie — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:11:47 +0000

You are right.

Comment on Ethnic Bulgaria. by vessie

vessie — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:29:21 +0000

“Since the Bulgarian population is a mixture of the original Slavic inhabitants and Turkish invaders from Western China” – you should be more informed about bulgarian mixture and why they are bulgarians, not only slavic and turkish. Maybe you missed your PC history lesson about Bulgarian state on Balkan peninsula, but there were also other states: The Great Old Bulgaria and Volga Bulgaria. I hope you will be iteresting in that. Greetings from Doupnitsa

Comment on Communist architechture. by Ivan Bedzhov

Ivan Bedzhov — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:59:22 +0000

you are right.
it sucks!

Comment on Moving. by Fluent

Fluent — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:27:08 +0000

Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Fluent

Comment on Moving. by fact animals

fact animals — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:02:26 +0000

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Comment on Postcards! by Dadski

Dadski — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:37:10 +0000

Please post address to send cards to. Thank you very much.

Comment on by blogaria

blogaria — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:48:34 +0000

I have heard some stuff…there are a couple of different styles. Some sound pretty western, but some sound downright Middle Eastern (as does a lot of Bulgarian folk music, which uses the minor scales that are typically associated with the ME).