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When Almis, the first Islamic Bulgarian ruler, received the Abbasid Caliphate ambassador to adopt Islam, the ambassador called Almis, Tsar of Saqaliba, Arabic for Slavs. Why did this come if Volga Bulgarians were just Turks and unrelated to us? It actually goes further to prove that the proto-Bulgarians were an amalgamation of various Slavic tribes who got conquered by the Turko-Mongols and had the Turkic language imposed on them for some time. Not really much different to how Ottoman Turkish was the language of administration in the Balkans. The proto-Bulgarians have never described themselves as anything other than Bulgarians. The early Bulgarians were of their own ethnicity and meta-ethnicity (that is until we created Slavdom with the huge educational centres in Danube Bulgaria).
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