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Originally Posted by Exeter
Is it popular because it might be true or that it sounds better?
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I think of it as highly unlikely, so I believe it sounds much better than usual Bulgarian ethnogenesis theories, to those people who invented it.
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Croatia has similar theories.
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Yes, we have similar theories. They are mostly based on certain toponyms in Croatia, that correspond to toponyms in Iran(or vice versa), some words in our language that can be connected with the old Persian and modern Iranian, and our etnonym "the Croat", which is most probably of Iranic origin. All that may point out to assimilation of Iranic-speaking people into much larger Slavic ethnic substratum, resulting with people calling themselves Croats, who speak the overall Slavic language, with some Iranic words.