User talk:Vonin
My dear friend, i will answer all your questions. You are absolutely right that Bulgarians by the year of 700 for example, didn't mean just (only) Slavians. When Proto-Bulgars (by the way Proto-Bulgars means 'A tribe from nowaydays North Iran or nowayadays North Afganistan', which doesn't mean Proto-Bulgars were Arabs, so don't waste another question of yours), came to the Balkans they made a country including at first today's North Bulgaria (without Sofia), East Wallachia, whole Moldavia, and a South-East part of Ukraine.
Check in here http://www.zum.de/whkmla/histatlas/balkans/bulg850.gif
By that time those territories and plenty more were inhabited mostly and mainly by Slavs. Although the Proto-Bulgars were at least 300 000 by the time of their arraival on the Balkans, the Slavs were 5 to 10 times more. You can imagine how many Vlachs have survived in that mixture. And, yes, i repeat, Bulgarian didn't mean only Proto-Bulgarians or only Slavs. BUT MAINLY SLAVS, DUE TO THE FACT I TOLD YOU ABOVE!
Also, in 855 A.D. two brothers named Cyril and Metodius (with a mother Slavian and a father Byzantian), very high-educated men, spent most of their lives completing missions for Byzantium, created, invented, made, whatever you want, the BULGARIAN ALPHABET, i repeat, this ALPHABET, was given DIRECTLY to the Bulgarian king BORIS THE FIRST, by their best scholar KLIMENT OHRIDSKI! The alphabet was made for the mixed country called BULGARIA, for the people lived in that country. The alphabet now is known as CYRILIC ALPHABET! From Bulgaria the alphabet were to RUSSIA AND SERBIA and to ROMANIA too. Check what letters ROMANIA was using before the middle of the 19 century.
About your question whether Thracians existed by the arraival of the Proto-Bulgars i strongly disagree that they were a factor on the Balkans by the year 700 A.D. First of all, they were really influenced by the Greeks and almost lost everything unique in their culture. They didn't have a country, a free, independent country after the Romans conquerted it, and as i told you before, SLAVS were much more than the Thracians. Slavs were the main people on the Balkans for some centuries. From 6th to 10th mainly. Also, there's such a thing called SLAVS FROM THE SERBO-CROATIAN group, SLAVS FROM THE BULGARIAN GROUP, SLAV FROM THE NORTH-EAST GROUP (RUSSIANS AND UKRAINIANS)! So, when i say SLAVS i mean SLAVS FROM THE BULGARIAN BRANCH, SLAVS INHABITED MOSTLY THE TERRITORIES WHERE THEY WERE IN A CONTACT WITH BULGARS!!!
ONE MORE THING THRACIAN DOESN'T MEAN WALLACHIAN!
YES, 'VLACH' HAS A NEGATIVE MEANING IN BULGARIA. FOR SURE!
I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT SUCH PRINCIPALITY AS WALLACHIA DIDN'T EXIST BEFORE 1300 A.D. THIS TERRITORY WAS RULED MOSTLY BY BULGARIA AND IN PARTS BY HUNGARY. THE INFLUENCE OF BULGARIANS WAS HUGE.
LET ME ASK YOU COUPLE OF QUESTIONS TOO.
1) WHERE DO YOU THINK ROMANIA BECAME A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY? 2) HOW COME 20 % OF THE REXICAL IN THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE IS WITH BULGARIAN ORIGIN? 3) MOST OF THE ROMANIAN RULERS NAMES ARE WITH BULGARIAN ORIGIN, WHY?
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