I was doing some research on the origins of the bulgars and found some conflicting results
I found some sources claiming the earliest documentation of them was found in Gansu China
Others claiming they came from the steppe near the Caspian Sea around Kazakhstan
And I have even found some sources saying they originated from an ancient Iranian kingdom named the Kingdom of Balkhara (and Wikipedia labels this idea as a fringe theory) and as they migrated the Balkharians mixed in with Mongols, Huns Magyars Yakuts and became Bulgars and that the word Bulgar means of “mixed origin”
Is this true?
what exactly were they?
Mongols?
Iranians?
And why is it so hard to find any info about any of this?
They're Balkan Slavs with some minor West Asian Admixture. Still basically White.
Camden Campbell
im not talking about the bulgarians im talking about the bulgars average bulgarian has less than 1% blood from the actual bulgars mostly south slav and thracian
Justin Thomas
Bulgars were turkic, but somehow they got cucked by Slavs AFTER conqering them. Truly a pathetic people
Julian Harris
they just ran out of people they were actually quite impressive fighters pic related bulgar leader beat the Byzantines and chopped of the emperors head and made a cup out of it
Joseph Watson
Nobody knows. When the first empire fell to Basil, he burned the biggest library in Bulgaria. When the second empire was falling, the turks also burned libraries. Just about everything we know of the bulgars and all of the Bulgarias is second hand information from.
Ryan Lopez
Google: autosomal DNA Bulgaria
Charles King
Some of the khans had iranic names like asparuh and omurtag, which is interesting
Anthony Hernandez
>so hard to find any info
As a nation Bulgarians have existed for a long time
But when Kubrat formed Bulgaria in Phanagoria we were neighboring the Khazar Khaganat with which we were at war
It's a very sensitive history for a certain group of long nosed people so they do everything in their power to prevent us from studying our history
Jeremiah Jackson
i read that khan asparuh's body was found in a river in ukraine and was moved to bulgaria to be layed to rest with the rest of bulgarian monarchs cant find a single pic of the body online though could you help get me sauce bulgarian?
