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Why is it that so many Bulgarians attempt to create this false image that the Bulgars (or "Bolghars", as they are sometimes referred to) were an Indo-Iranian peoples? The Bulgars clearly had a Turkic language, culture, system of government (Khanate), religion (tengriism), and ancestry (the Hunnic federation). I do not deny that they may have had limited Indo-Iranian admixture or influence, but they were as a whole Turkic. This whole idea of an "Indo-Aryan" origin of the Bulgars became popular during the 90's when all the scummy neo-Nazis started to show themselves in post-Communist Bulgarian society... All facial reconstructions of Bulgars expose their Turkic features:
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