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Originally Posted by Mynydd
Many historians have believed that the ancient Bulgars were a Turkic people. However, I think that it is more plausible to think that they were related to the Indo-Iranian Sarmatians or the Indo-European Scythians.
This map gives the location of the Sarmatians and the Scythians in the year ~100 BC
Now compare it with the location of the Bulgars ~650 AD
Some interesting information on the Proto-Bulgars: Rasho Rashev - On the origin of the Proto-Bulgarians (1992) |
the bulgarian state in Ukraine was established in the 620 A.D. by the bulgarians who came as refugees from their previous state Bactria. But generally protobulgarians were classified as skyts(many other nations also formed this generalized term.)
Protobulgarians who came to modern day bulgaria were about 1 000 000. Khan Asparuh our first ruler in the danube Bulgaria deported the slavic tribes living there to the northern bordev of the state(north of danube) so that the recently came bulgarians can set up here. In the next years the population doubled. So if we have something in common with slavs its only our language(which still has many Persian words in it, as an evidence of our Bactrian origin)