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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Cyrus on December 02, 2011, 05:35:08 PM

Title: Scholars Claim Bulgarians Descended from Iran
Post by: Cyrus on December 02, 2011, 05:35:08 PM

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=117903

Title: Re: Scholars Claim Bulgarians Descended from Iran
Post by: ExGeeEye on December 02, 2011, 09:46:19 PM

You want 'em back or something?

 :-)

Seriously, there are three main ethnic groups that have commingled, more or less, to arrive at the current population.  One, perhaps most numerous, could have come from Persia,  The other two groups are Thracian (a varietal of Greek, I think) and Slav.

But they've been "Bulgarian" longer than my English/Scottish/Dutch/Alsatian French family have been American (since before the US was founded; most of us have been on the continent since before 1700).

Title: Re: Scholars Claim Bulgarians Descended from Iran
Post by: Ptarmigan on December 03, 2011, 03:47:19 PM

I have seen Persians and many of them to me look like people from Eastern Europe, like Russia or Poland. I have heard Persian spoken and it sounds like a Romance or Slavic language to me.