From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
Subject: Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars
Date: 22 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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On 17 Mar 1999 23:21:20 GMT, e.karloukovski@uea.ac.uk (Vassil
Karloukovski) wrote:

>In article <36effb24.440413110@news.yale.edu>, cluster.user@yale.edu says...
>>Vassil Karloukovski wrote:
>

>
>And the saka calendar was not lunar but solar - the year had twelve months of 30
>days and 5 festive days at the new year (Al-Biruni). [The bulgar cyclic calendar 
>was also solar, although it differed from the saka - it had four seasons of 91 
>days (31 days in the first month, and 30 days in the next two) + 1 festive day 
>(the new year).]

just what is the evidence for the details of this bulghar calender?

>
>So, saka's was an example of a solar cyclic calendar different from the chinese 
>lunar and the turkic calendars. 
>