Bulgarian Identity crisis
Even the Bulgarians do not know who they really are, just follow the lead down:
THE BULGARIANS ARE SLAVICIZED FINNS
The first barbarians to settle permanently in the Balkan Peninsula coming from the northeast were the Bulgars, a Finnish people whose home was the middle Volga districts...
Taken from
Some think that they are Goths:
"...През 2002 година у нас стартира Готскијат проект, којто има за цел да проучи прис'ствието на древните готи по нашите земи и тјахното значение за развитието на региона и на б'лгарската д'ржава и народност...."
translation:
"... During 2002 the old Goth Project, who has the goal to examine the presence of the ancient Goths in the Balkan Area and to examine their role in development of the Bulgarian State and People..."
Taken from
Some see the Origins of the Bulgarians in Modern Iran
On the origin of the Proto-Bulgarians
And than again many support the Slavic Origin of the Bulgarians
PaisiiHilendarski
So who are the Bulgarians? In the words of Stefan Detchev:
Bulgarian elite had to invent, elaborate and underpin a
myth of common ancestry and made this pedigree putative for the sense of ethnic identification
HONEST BULGAR
Unfortunately this is only web archive, since the original was removed from Internet.
Where I would add that the Bulgarian elite has failed!
Stefan Detchev ‘We, the People’ fellow 2004 – 2005 WHO ARE THE BULGARIANS? - “RACE”, SCIENCE AND POLITICS IN FIN-DE SIECLE BULGARIA.
A. H. Halikov in his book "Who we are: Bulgars or Tatars its original nameis: Kem Bez: Bolgarlarmi, Tatarlarmi