From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User) Subject: Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars Date: 27 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <36af8318.504996@news.yale.edu> References: <369E3BE1.5C45@sbu.ac.uk> <77li2j$qi0$1@whisper.globalserve.net> <369F52FE.2B6@sbu.ac.uk> <77rc86$auj$1@brokaw.wa.com> <36A444B3.F3B70F1C@alum.mit.edu.-> <7827sb$269$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36A52D70.9E372DD2@alum.mit.edu.-> <36A556AB.9927BD29@montclair.edu> <36a63533.58309714@news.yale.edu> <7866ud$i9m$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36cdb21e.883120019@news.wxs.nl> <36A7FCC8.79790A6B@earthlink.net> <36d77e23.1000882888@news.wxs.nl> <36a8d455.81661202@news.yale.edu> <36AC3460.856801F6@earthlink.net> <36ae814d.4306061@news.yale.edu> <36AEE9D8.4A3F8755@earthlink.net> <36af5752.1195388@news.yale.edu> <3714630c.1452636942@news.wxs.nl> Organization: Yale University Newsgroups: sci.archaeology,sci.anthropology,sci.lang On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 19:05:28 GMT, mcv@wxs.nl (Miguel Carrasquer Vidal) wrote: >On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 18:30:17 GMT, cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster >User) wrote: > >>I find this specualtive and somewhat pointless. I guess we missed the >>chance of asking them what constituted the most important element of >>"being a bolghar". most likely they didn't care. most likely they were >>a mixed tribal confederation and didn't worry about modern nationalist >>notions. > >Exactly. [I'm not sure, but doesn't bolghar mean "mixed"?] I have not heard of that etymology, where did you get from? > >======================= >Miguel Carrasquer Vidal >mcv@wxs.nl >Amsterdam