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Originally Posted by Plethon
Not Iran, for God's sake. The Bulgars came from Volga (today's southern Russia) and they were Turkic speaking people. After coming to Thrace-Moesia (present day Bulgaria) they found Slavic speaking people there. They subjugated those people and imposed their rule upon them, but were linguistically assimilated by them. leaving only the name Bulgar to the new nation.
The Turkic speaking Chuvash are probably most closely realted to the ancient Bulgars (the Chuvash are today Orthodox Christians).
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this is rubbish. Volga? Cmon man. even the turcic theory sais we came from central Asia.
the bulgarian migration path:
and the bulgarian path with flags put on:
and yes - the iranic theory is the ONLY theory that is accepted today. The slavic and the turcic theory were abandoned in Bulgaria. Still Wikipedia and some other encyclopedias need to refresh their old info took from the communist times.