The Ancient Bulgarians Who Were They? A New Look at the Old Question

Absztrakt

The author offers a new perspective on the fundamental question of the Bulgarian ethnogenesis. Bulgarians and Khazars came from East Turkestan, a region of Turpan- Urumqi-Hami; and their earliest traceable origin is Tocharian. Living in the Sarmatian environment, they gradually acquired Iranian languages. In the I century AD they had already moved in the Caucasus and came in the academic focus of historical analysts (Movses Khorenatsi).