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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
- Subject: Re: Bulgarians, Bosnians, and Croats (was re: Will Russia stand beside Serbia?)
- Message-ID: <12180@spark.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:57:43 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.215331.8115@polaris.utu.fi> <1992Dec20.154305.1@jaguar.uofs.edu> <1h3p3oINNb1a@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec21.033927.18749@husc3.harvard.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec21.033927.18749@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
- >Bulgarians are an authentic thorn in the side of the Baltic fascists:
- >Orthodox Christians, speaking a Southern Slavic language, but descended
- >from an ancient Finnish tribe, who conquered the Slavs of Moesia in the
- >seventh century C.E.; the facts are well-known, and incontrovertible.
-
- The facts are well-known and incontrovertible, except the above
- contains three grave errors: (1) the Proto-Bulgars were not a Finnish
- (or even Finnic), but a Turkic tribe, (2) they came to the south side
- of the River Danube as settlers, not as conquerors, and they became
- allies of the Slavic population in their struggle against Byzantium,
- and (3) since the Slavs were much more numerous than the Bulgars,
- present-day Bulgarians are descendants of the Slavs to a much higher
- degree than they are descendants of the Bulgars.
-
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- `D'ye mind tellin me whit the two o ye are gaun oan aboot?' (The Glasgow
- Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu) Gospel)
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