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I read somewhere, that Bulgarians have a lot of Byzantine admixture. Do you know from which ethnicity: I heard that Armenians settled Bulgaria in those times and until 1800 main populations in northeast Bulgaria were Gagauzes, also I found, that there was resettlement of a group of Seljuk Turks from Anatolia to Dobruja.
"According to the 15th-century Oghuzname narrative, in 1261 Turkoman dervish Sari Saltuk accompanied a group of Turkomans into Dobruja, where they were settled by the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII to protect the northern frontier of the empire. However, Dobruja was occupied by Tatars in the same period. The same source places him in Crimea after 1265, along the Turkomans transferred there by Tatar khan Berke, and after 1280 mentions him leading the nomads back to Dobruja.[18][19] After the death of Sari Saltik, part of the Turkomans returned to Anatolia, while other remained and became Christians"
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