More about the Proto-Bulgarians
- ️Vassil Karloukovski
Наблюдения на Петър Добрев върху ‘Пътувания...’ на Ибн Фадлан
On the name and the title of the rulers
of Volga Bulgaria by R. Fahrutdinov (in Russian)
(Kindly provided by Mr. Vladimir Belyaev
and Mr. Arcady Molchanov)
Iranian elements
in the Proto-Bulgarians by V. Beshevliev (in Bulgarian)
(Kindly provided by Mr. Vladimir Belyaev
and Mr. Arcady Molchanov)
On the Prototype of the Proto-Bulgarian
Temples at Pliska, Preslav and Madara by
B. Brentjes
Central Asian Buddhist parallels of the Proto-Bulgarian
pagan temples from NE Bulgaria
Constantine Porphyrogenitus and the Bulgarians by G. Litavrin (in Russian)
Examples of the early Bulgar constume
IRANICA PROTOBULGARICA: Asparuch und Konsorten im Lichte der Iranischen Onomastik by R.Schmitt (in German)
Altturkische Felszeichnungen in Nordost-Anatolien by H. Vary (in German)
The Bulgars in the Balkans and the Occupation of Corinth in the Seventh Century by K. Setton
On the Capture of Corinth by the Onogurs and Its Recapture by the Byzantines by P. Charanis
The 'Second Bulgarian Empire.' Its Origin and History to 1204 by R. Wolff
Proto-Bulgarian Epigraphic Monuments by V. Beshevliev
Sarmatian elements in the pagan necropolises of NE Bulgaria and N Dobrudzha by E. Angelova (in Bulgarian)
On the origin of the Proto-Bulgarians by R. Rashev (the original paper in Bulgarian)
Yazijioghlu 'Ali on the Christian Turks of the Dobruja by Paul Wittek
Asparukh of Iberia, excerpt from The Cambridge History of Iran, v. 3
Medieval towns and fortresses in Macedonia by I. Mikulchik (in Macedonian)
Paisius or Nicephorus: regarding the personal name and the titles of the founder of the First Bulgarian Kingdom by Stefan Iordanov (in Bulgarian)
Slavs, Turks and Indo-Iranians in the Early Middle Ages by Stefan Iordanov (in Bulgarian)
On the border guard organisation at the time on the First Bulgarian Kindgdom by Stefan Iordanov (in Bulgarian)
Pliska - 100 years of archaeological excavations
by R. Rashev and Y. Dimitrov.
An overview of the archaeology of the old capital of
the First Bulgarian kingdom. With many additional pictures taken from other
books.
Bulgarians and Romanians on the Lower Danube during the early Middle Ages (according to the archaeological data) by D. Ovcharov (translated in Russian)
The Bulgaro-Khazar border and the Bulgaro-Khazar emnity from the end of the VII till the mid-IX c. by G. Atanassov (translated in Russian)
The Barbarians in Justianian's Armies by J. Teall
Conceptions of Ethnicity in Early Medieval Studies by W. Pohl
The tribes of the Western Caucasus according to "Ashkharacujc" by V. Butba (in Russian, excerpts)
The Fihrist of al-Nadim, A Tenth-century
survey of Muslim Culture (excerpts)
Al-Nadim mentions that the ‘Abbasid caliph al-Mam’un
(786–833), son of Harud al-Rashid, wrote a more that 100 pages long "Answers
to the Questions of the King of the Burghar Addressed to Him about Islam
and the Unity (Theology) (pp. 36, 254, 400)
The Slavs and the Avars by Omeljan Pritsak
Une inscription en langue proto-bulgare decouverte a Preslav by J. Deny
The goddess of love in the megaron of the power: Observations on the power relations of paleobalkan peoples by Stefan Yordanov (in Bulgarian)
Slavic-Greek symbiosis in Byzantium in the light of the toponymy by Phaedon Malingoudis (in Russian)
Die bulgarische Fuerstenliste und die Sprache der Protobulgaren by Omeljan Pritsak (in German)
The 'Onogurs' of the Byzantine chroniclers and the 'Haylandurs' of (the Armenian chronicler) Elishe by Ju. Dzhafarov (in Russian)
The unknown Old Bulgarian term "vlogzhupan" by S. Ivanov (in Russian)
Excavations at Bucov (Wallachia) (in Romanian) - Possibly the earliest dated Cyrillic inscriptions (902-911 AD), from the time of tsar Simeon
Chinese elements in the culture of the mediaeval Bulgars by Viktor Prikhodko (in Russian)
Ephemeris Dacoromâna (Roma, 1923) - including the article I Traci nelle epigrafi di Roma by G. G . Mateescu
Doctrina Christiana. Investigations on the compilation and sources of the so-called "Speech of the philosopher" in the Old Russian Chronicle by Hartmut Trunte (in German)
On the history of the Bulgarian name of the city of Philippopolis. About the name Plovdin or Plovdiv by Emil Kalužniacki, Constantine Jireček (1896) (in German)
The Nominalia of the Bulgarian princes by Mihail Tihomirov (1946) (in Russian)
Protobulgarica (Remarks on the history of the Proto-Bulgarians until the mid-IX c. AD) by Ivan Bozhilov, Hristo Dimitrov (1995) (in Russian)
The antique tomb by Pomorie (Kuhata mogila) by Toma Petrov, Ivan Venedikov, Bojan Kuzupov (1969) (in Bulgarian)
Origin and migrations of the ancient Bulgarians (in the search of a new approach to the old problem) (2012) by Zhivko Vojnikov (in Bulgarian)
The Old Bulgarian calendar - etymology of the names of the months and of the (cyclic) years by Zhivko Vojnikov and I. Vojnikov (in Russian, in Bulgarian)
The (non-)Bulgarian 12-year cyclic calendar - Avar legacy amongst the Bulgarians (2021) by Zhivko Vojnikov (in Bulgarian)
The Volga Tatars:
Origins - The
Bulgar State - The Mongol Conquest
- The Vaisov's Bulgar sect by
A. Rorlich
Documentary evidence about the Bulgars in the IV – VII cc. AD by V. Sirotenko (in Russian)
A short description of the Volga Bolgharic r-Turkic by Mr. Cluster User
Scholars and scientists from Volga Bulgaria by G. Davletshin (in Russian)
On the origin of the Volga Tatars by A. Smirnov (in Russian)
Great Volga Bulgaria by V. Iliev (in Bulgarian)
Brahmi, Estrangelo inscriptions from Volga Bulgaria (in Bulgarian)
Bulgaria of Kubrat, excerpts from G. Cenov
(in Bulgarian)
kindly provided by Evelina Teneva
The runic epigraphy of the ancient Bulgars by I. Kyzlasov (in Russian)
The myths of ancient Volga, in Russian
The Volga Bulgars in the IX-X cc. Preliminary notes by Boris Grekov (in Russian)
Slavs, Scythia, etc.:
Iranian and Slavic languages. Relations
throughout the history by D. Edel'man (in Russian)
An excerpt about the secondary "balkanisms" in the morphology,
syntax of some Iranian l-s
The Evolution of Slavic Society and the Slavic Invasions in Greece. The First Major Slavic Attack on Thessaloniki, A. D. 597 by Speros Vryonis Jr.
Tamgas (functions of the symbol) by V. Ol'hovskij, 2001 (in Russian). With 9 figures of Sarmatian, Old Turkic, etc. tamgas.
About the Zoroastrianism among the Alans in the VII-IX cc. b y R. Rudnickij, 2001 (in Russian)
The time of the appearence of the Alans in Eastern Europe and their origin by A. Skripkin, 2001 (in Russian)
Istorija v osetinskom predanii by
R. Bzarov (in Russian)
Description of the feudal relations, classes in Ossetia
and of the institution of "nomilus" (second wife)
The Name SLAV by B. Philip Lozinski
The genesis of the Balkan peoples by Vladimir Georgiev
The position of Albanian by Eric Hamp
"Old Scythia" and the Slavs by
O. Trubachev (in Russian)
An excerpt about the etymology of "slovene" (Slav) and
its connection with the tribal name "stavana" in Ptolemy.
Temarundam "matres maris" by
O. Trubachev (in Russian)
About the ancient names of the Black Sea, and about the
Indo-Aryan, but not Iranian, language of the Sindo-Maeotian tribes of southern
Scythia.
The tribes of European Sarmatia in the II c. AD by A. Udal'cov (in Russian), with maps
The Outlines of Hungarian Prehistory by D. Sinor
Hudud al-'Alam, The Regions of the World,
A Persian Geography, 372 A.H. - 982 A.D.
with commentaries of V. Minorsky
The Language of the Huns by
O. Maenchen-Helfen
Chapter IX of his book, "The World of the Huns"
Studies in the History and Language of the Sarmatians by J. Harmatta
Bernstein, Trubachev on the Balto-South-Slavic isoglosses (in Russian)
Slavs and Albanians till the XII c. in the light of the toponomastics by Alexander Loma (in Serbian)
Towards the question about the origin of the Slavs of northern Albania by Ivan Popovich (in Russian)
Some Slavistic aspects of the Serbian ethnogenesis by Alexander Loma (in Serbian)
Toponymy and history. Observations concerning the Slavonic toponymy of the Peloponnese (1983) by Phaedon Malingoudis
The Slavs in mediaeval Greece (1991) by Phaedon Malingoudis (in Greek)
Die Voelker Suedosteuropas im 6. bis
8. Jahrhundert, B. Haensel (ed.) (Suedosteuropa Jahrbuch, 17, 1987):
Die Voelker Suedosteuropas im 6. bis 8. Jahrhundert, Probleme und
Ergebnisse (K. Horedt); Die Nordgrenze des byzantinischen Reiches
im 6. bis 8. Jahrhundert (E. Chrysos); Das awarische Khaganat und
die anderen Gentes im Karpatenbecken (6.-8. Jh.) (W. Pohl); Fruehe
slawische Elemente im Namensgut Griechenlands (Ph. Malingoudis); Alte
Relikte in Balkansprachen (N. Reiter)
The suffixal combination -av-itjo- in the west-Baltic l-s (1987) by A. Nepokupnyj (in Russian)
Die Slavische Bevolkerung auf der Griechischen Halbinsel: Ein Beitrag zur Historischen Ethnographie Sudosteuropas (1978) by Michael W. Weithmann (Beitraege zur Kenntnis Suedosteuropas und des Nahen Orients, Band 31). An OCR-ed .doc file, kindly provided by Asen Tschilingirov
On probable Tungus-Manchurian origin of the Buyla inscription from Nagy-Szentmiklós (2000) by Eugene Helimski
The Roman Curia and the prohibition of the Slavonic liturgy in Great Moravia in 885 A.D. (1998) by Boris Florja (in Russian)
Regarding the classical antiquity's heritage of the South Slavic and the East Romance peoples (1978) by Tatjana Zlatkovskaja (in Russian)
About the identity of the Thracian culture in Roman times (1981) by Tatjana Zlatkovskaja (in Russian)
Three Paradoxes of the Cyrillo-Methodian Mission (1964) by Ihor Ševčenko
Moscow the Third Rome: Sources of the Doctrine (1953) by D. Strémooukhoff
“Made in Russia“. A Survey of the Translations Allegedly Made in Kievan Russia (1993) by F. Thomson
Myths and facts about the emergence of the Russian literary language (1975) by A. Issatschenko (in German)
What is „Old-Russian Literature“ (2000) by Hans Rothe (in German)
What is „Old-Russian Literature“ (2015, Minsk) by Hans Rothe (in Russian)
Milan Budimir’s views on Slav lexicon, origin and on Slav homeland by Nebojša Radenković (2017?) (in Serbian)
Central Asia, etc.:
History of the Armenians, Moses Khorenats'i -
The runic alphabets of Central Asia
by I. Kyzlasov (in Russian)
About the formation of the Pamir-Fergana
racial type by L. Jablonskij (in Russian)
The artificial skull deformation in Central
Asia by T. Hodzhajov (in Russian)
Аrmenian sources on Central Asia, V-VII
c. AD by L. Ter-Mkrtichjan (in Russian). With a
MAP of Central Asia,VII c. AD by
S. Eremjan
Central Asia in the Early Middle Ages,
ed. G. Brykina. With maps.
About the titles of the Sogdian rulers
by O. Smirnova (in Russian)
The New Year festival "kalandas" among
the Khorezmian Christians from the beginnig of the XI c. AD by
S. Tolstov (in Russian)
Bactrian marriage contract
of 343 AD, N. Sims-Williams (translated in Bulgarian)
The town of Balkh by
Sh. Kamaliddinov (in Russian)
Historical geography of Southern
Sogdiana and Northern Tokharistan according to Arab sources, IX-XIII cc.
by Sh. Kamaliddinov (in Russian)
Documents epigraphiques kouchans
by G. Fussman (in French)
Eastern Turkestan and Central Asia in the
System of Cultures of Ancient and Medieval East (1986)
Boris A. Litvinskij (ed.) (in Russian) Germanic peoples:
Deutsche Altertumskunde. II (1887)
by Karl Müllenhoff (in German)
Commentary
on the Literary Sources by R. Thomson
(Kindly provided by Mr. Vladimir Belyaev
and Mr. Arcady Molchanov)
Al-Biruni's description of the Khorezmian "kalandas"
festival, which is similar to those of the Balkans, the north Pontus and
the Caucasus;
Khazar-Khorezmian relations, Judean influences from Khorezm
to Khazaria
The Dasht-e Nawur inscriptions from Afghanistan, written
in three scripts: Bactrian-Greek, Kharosthi and an unknown script