Quotes about Bulgarians

[AleksandarBG]

In Flanders during the 17th century, the most common description of a handsome and tall lad or simply of good man was "un bon bulgar"
from the dictionary of phylosophy by Voltaire.
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"Is it not miraculous, the courage of the conquered Bulgarian people which rose to arms against an Empire"
Hans Christian Andersen in his diary
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"The role of the Bulgarian clergy in the middle ages may be compared with that of the irish monks before them"
Dmitri Lihachov - Russia
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"The Bulgarians werre the people who contributed the most for the organization and formatrion of the civilization of the whole eastern Europe and its introduction into the civilized world
Prof. Geza Fecher, Hungary
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"the historic merit of Bulgaria is the fact that it barred the Turks from Europe. It paid for that in blood, paid with its faith, its freedom and with the decline of its brilliant culture in that time."
Prof. Sante Grachotti - Italy.
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"In the other world, in paradise, the beauty of a woman surpasses even the beauty of the Bulgarian woman"
Adaloloddin Mohammad Balhi -12th century persian poet.
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"Ucrainians, as well as Russians and Byelorussians, we all remember where our script and roots of culture and Ortodoxy have come from. I want to remind the fact that two of the Patriarchs of the Ucraine are ethnic Bulgarians - Tsamblak and Kiprian"
Vjacheslav Pohvalski - Ucrainian Ambassador in Bulgaria.
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"Bulgarians are strong and adamant people which had never been afraid of death. They are good-willing to their friends and fierce to their enemies, infinitely hospitable and they like to live in peace and accord with their neighbours.
Hugas Indejedijan - Armenian traveller in his book "Armenian travel notes on the balkans 17th-19th century"
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"The Bulgarian medieval culture is among the seven civilizations in the history of the world which played an essencial role because of its mission as a link between the East and the West"
Shigioshi Matsuiama - Japanese Historian
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"The meaning of the name "Bulgarian" is wise, knowledgeable man"
Abu Hamid al Aldalusi - XII century arabian traveller
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"The beggining and the possibility for the formation and development of the present Balkan nations started with the creation of Danube Bulgaria"
Prof. Geza Fecher, Hungary
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"It should be acknoledged that there exists a profound connection between Eastern and Western Europe in the area of culture and together with that the role of the Bulgarians in the transfer of new civilization impulses should be highlighted."
Prof. Harry Salmon, The Netherlands
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"It has been proven that the ancient Bulgarians had one of the most advanced calendars in the world, more acceptable than the chinese and the Indian systems of chronology, more accessible and more practical."
Prof. Michele Longon, "Population et Societe". France
The twelfve-year animal cycle calendar of the Bulgarians which estimates precisely the lenght of the Earth year by measuring the period of the movement of Jancul(Jupiter) around the Sun, is the theoritical basis for the design of a unified calendar of mankind adopted by UNESCO.

Not all quotes, i find only this in english.