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Bulgars led by Khan Krum pursue the Byzantines at the Battle of Versinikia (813). The Bulgars (also Bulghars, Bulgari, Bolgars, Bolghars, Bolgari, [1] Proto-Bulgarians [2]) were Turkic semi-nomadic warrior tribes that flourished in the Pontic–Caspian steppe and the Volga region between the 5th [3] and 7th centuries.
The establishment of a new state molded the various Slav, Bulgar and earlier or later populations into the "Bulgarian people" of the First Bulgarian Empire [73] [107] [108] speaking a South Slavic language. [109] In different periods to the ethnogenesis of the local population contributed also different Indo-European and Turkic people, who ...
Map 7: West Slav tribes in 9th and 10th centuries Map 8: Slavic Bohemian tribes shown in various colors and Moravians in red, on a map of modern Czech Republic. Veneti / Wends Lechitic ancestors of West Slavs; some were also the ancestors of part of South Slavs. Czech–Moravian-Slovak group
A Y-DNA genetic study on Slavic peoples and some of their neighbours published two statistical distributions of distance because of the volume of details studied, based on pairwise F ST values, the Turks from Bulgaria are most related to Anatolian Turks, thereafter to Italians, Bulgarians and others; while according to the R ST values, the ...
Historical contribution of donor source groups in European peoples according to Hellenthal et al., (2014). Polish is selected to represent Slavic-speaking donor groups from the Middle Ages that are estimated to make up 97% of the ancestry in Belarusians, 80% in Russians, 55% in Bulgarians, 54% in Hungarians, 48% in Romanians, 46% in Chuvash and 30% in Greeks.
The Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of West, Central, East, and North Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages. [37] [38]According to historians and linguists, the Proto-Turkic language originated in Central-East Asia, [39] potentially in the Altai-Sayan region, Mongolia or Tuva.
The Slavs or Slavic people is the largest ethnic group in Europe. [1] They predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Southeastern Europe.There is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, [2] [3] and a substantially dispersed Slavic population in the Americas, Western Europe, and Northern Europe.
By the 10th century, the Avar confederacy collapsed due to internal conflicts and to Frankish and Slavic attacks. The remnant Avars were subsequently absorbed by the Slavs and Magyars. The Bulgars, a Turkic people of Central Asia, first appeared in a wave which commenced with the arrival of Asparuh's Bulgars.