Ancient Bulgarians- Turkic or Iranic?

[Bozkurt_Karabash]

Modern Volga Tatars or Chuvash have strong russian and ugro-finnic influence. I suppose that ancient Bulgars were Pontid, North-Pontid and Turanid.

It's not that they have Russian influebnce. It's because both Russian and such Turkic ethnicities have strong Iranian make up. There is overlap but there are also unique looks within them.

[Niegosław Paprocki]

Turkic. The Bulgars ware a Turkic tribe if I recall correctly. I often wonder how much of that non-Slavic blood still survives to this day in the modern Balkan region.

[Lithium]

Note the fact that the found remains in ancient Bulgarian graves are 2m tall Europeids with light hair.

[Svartálfar]

Modern Volga Tatars or Chuvash have strong russian and ugro-finnic
admixture. I suppose that ancient Bulgars were Pontid, North-Pontid and Turanid.

There were many Corded Nordid too.

[Lithium]

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...49&postcount=1

[morski]

Note the fact that the found remains in ancient Bulgarian graves are 2m tall Europeids with light hair.

I don't know about the hair colour, but the skeletons suggest really gigantic stature, considering the time period, in all of Europe.

[Redar14]

There were many Corded Nordid too.

Maybe. It's really possible.

[StonyArabia]

It's not that they have Russian influebnce. It's because both Russian and such Turkic ethnicities have strong Iranian make up. There is overlap but there are also unique looks within them.

Russians look nothing like Iranians, is this a joke?

[Svartálfar]

Note the fact that the found remains in ancient Bulgarian graves are 2m tall Europeids with light hair.

Not exactly.

Traditionally, historians have associated the Bulgars with the Huns, who migrated out of Central Asia. Anthropological data collected from medieval Bulgar necropolises from Dobrudja, Crimea and the Ukrainian steppe have shown that Bulgars were a Caucasoid people with a small Mongoloid admixture and practiced circular type artificial cranial deformation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgars#Ethnicity_debate

[Redar14]

Russians look nothing like Iranians, is this a joke?

Pontid or North-Pontid Russians could pass as ancient Sarmatians.