Talk:Bulgarians/@comment-95.87.234.32-20191114111455

Please, you forget the timeline of the game is from 500-1500s. That`s a lot of time. A lot of things happened. Those that argue that Bulgars and Bulgarians are different people, that Volga Bulgaria and Danube Bulgaria are completely different - i can say - yes, and no. It depends. On the moment in time. 1. The Bulgars of Old Great Bulgaria are collective name, given to several large tribes, that were first part of the Huns empire, then Avars Khanate, and made independet state, called Old Great Bulgaria (that`s what the greeks callled it in the sources). We call those people proto-Bulgarian, to differentiate between the modern nation of Bulgarians. That state was divided and defeated by the Khazars, basically split in 2 at the center. One part migrated to the Danube and founder what is now modern Bulgaria, another part of those people went and settled around Volga, that became Volga Bulgaria. The original tribes that migrated from Olg Great Bulgaria were the same people, however with time the differences and assimilation of different cultures created the difference in the people that we know today. However the original creators of the states were same people. The biggest difference in culture is that Danube Bulgaria addopted Christianity, while the Volga Bulgaria addopted Islam as religion. 2. The Modern day Bulgarians (in Danube Bulgaria) and the so called Volga Tatars are different, because of 1000+ of assimilation. Modern day Bulgaria is slavic county, because the largest part of te population of the state was slavic. Slavs united with the Bulgarians khans. The Danube bulgaria assimialted a lot of other people into the nation as well, including Cumans, after the destruction of Cumania. A lot of them were refugees and settled in Bulgaria, that was at the time their closest Ally. We still have a lot of places called "Kumanovo" and family names "Kumanov" - meaning something like "Cuman Village" and "of the Cumans" (for the family name). The nation was unified mainly under Christian faith, that replaced all the pagan religions and as well the adoption of original writted aphabet called Cyrrilic. No it was not created by Cyril and Methodius. Cyril and Methodius created the Glagolitic script that was different and much harder to write. The Cyrrilic was created in Preslav, by the apprentice of them - st. Clement of Ohrid (who got the name of from Ohrid only after he had created the Cyrrilic and was sent in his elder years to be Bishop of Ohrid). The script was named by st. Clement  "Cyrrilic" in honer of his teached St. Cyril. Yes the Cyrrilic is basically a simplification of the Glagolitic, and that`s why 90% of the credit should be given to st. Cyril and Methodius. So i hope this explains briefly why the modern day Bulgaria is slavic country and there is a difference between the turkic proto-Bulgarians and the later Bulgaria.