Bulgarian troops, posted by Khan Tervel, helped rescue Constantinople from the Arab expansion of 717-718. In later years (805th, the Franks and the Bulgarian Khan Kroum jointly destroyed the Avar Khanate in Panonia. Thus this aggressive and warlike alliance, which for many centuries had hindered the formation of independent national states in Central Europe was eliminated.
The fyromians in the Republic of fyrom, and Macedonian minorities in Greece, Bulgaria, and Albania, continue to proudly call themselves "Macedonians" and consider the "Slav" label an insult and racial slur. The western press was literary bombarded by mails, faxes, and emails from outraged Macedonians who despised being called "Slavs" during the Albanian aggression on Macedonia. in fact fyromians are bulgarians since samuel s capital was ochrid.. 2/3 of fyrom is bulgarian and 1/3 albanians
@Askar590 In the movie - yes (it was made in commie times). In reality, they lived both in tents and in stone-built cities (the only people from the steppes, besides the Alans, to do this).
кокошинке, за съжаление, траките са клани периодично около 400 години средата на 3-ти - средата на 7-ми век от готи, хуни, авари, славяни и т.н., така че когато прабългарите се заселват, от тях вече не са останали толкова много. Освен това, Херодот надали е правил разлика между траки и даки когато е направил това изявление :)
Вземете дълбоко въздух. Тази про-руска приказка няма нищо общо с прабългарите и тяхното снаражение и успехи . Първо одрисите са 300 години под византийско робство и след няколко набеза от страна на аспаруховите българи успяват в обединение с даките да отнемат васалните претенции на Византия .Второ последната прабългарска конница е унишожена на територията на гр.Ловеч ,те така и не преминават Балкана ,трето Херодот казва: "траките" са най-многобройният народ на света след индийците.
Belisarius was apparently asked by Constantine IV to write a more favourable history of the events, of how he defeated the Bulgars etc. Instead, Belisarius decided to write the truth of what he had seen and this didn't end very well for him.
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Very nice movie. Only i don't like is fact that Khan Asparuch was mongoloid Proto-bulgarian,comparing modern Bulgarians, Slavs.Yes, Proto-bulgarian turkish people founded Bulgarian state, but i am happy that nowadays Buglarians belongs to white race and speak slavic language as we Serbs do.
But, movie is wonderful, i got it in an old video tape.
Well, to be more correct, the archaeological research of the proto-Bulgarian necropolises shows that the Bulgars were Europeid people with small Mongol admixtures (the level of Mongoloidness was around the same as that of modern Western Europeans). So there were some Mongoloid elements, but it was mostly Europeid. ;)
Man, i didn't talk about nowadays Bulgarians.Bulgarians belong to white indo-european Slavic(or as someone of you would like to say Tracians but i don't accept it) Nations. 15 000 Proto-Bulgarians were mixed during the time with 100 000 Slavs who adopted non-slavic name.There's no reason to react.
Uhm, that's rather incorrect too. Archaeology shows that the Bulgars were probably at least as much as the Slavs, if not even more numerous. The "huge Slavic sea" where the Bulgars were just a drop that quickly got dissovled is largely a myth, it seems.
Не е заради снаряжението, а заради незнание от една страна (доста хора дори и тук мислят, че в азиатските степи има само монголоидни племена, което не е вярно), а от друга страна - заради различни пропаганди (като в Република Македония, например).
No idiot! the magyar or bulgar folk were scythian mtdna h2a . h2a ancient european before indoeuropean(gypsy) miggration! we and bulgars have 1 origin the onogur-sabir tribes! they were scytho-huns. genetic iranians!
Indo-Europeans are indeed not Gypsies, though the Gypsies are part of the Indo-Europeans. And they came from India around the 14th-15th century, not from Greece. Western Europeans at that time thought they're Egyptian, not Greek, but it was soon found out they're actually lower-caste Indians.
yes, but is is done during pressure of russia where the slav connectivity must be present very strong, meaning the bulgarian part must be cut as much as possible
Does anybody here remember "демонат на империята" ("Dämon der Paschas und Bojaren" in german)? That one was about Wassil Lewski and his comrades fighting the turkish opressors and the pro-ottoman bulgarian boyars in the 19th century. I am looking for this old bulgarian TV series, does anybody now whether there is a DVD edition? Help welcome.
Great. Khan Asparuch. What a movie. What battle scenes. and all real. I remember seeing that film on east german TV about 30 years ago. Bulgarian movies from these times are very good. It is a shame that all we get nowadays is only U.S. yankee tv crap whilst interesting movies from nearer countries are completely ignored.
Response to BostonEM: A lot of scientists would sacrifice a hand if they could proof if it's true or not. How can you proof your Turkic theory? Must know that not a long time ago the history was based mostly on conclusions built of propaganda. Today the scientific element is starting to prevail and the latest discoveries shows that Turkic theory is getting weaker and it'll most probably be proved that the Bulges are much older tribe and much more civilized than we previously accepted.
Slavs and Bolgars spoke a similar language, because they lived together long time in Ukraina. From the mixture of slavic and bolgar languages was created Old Church Slavonic, or also known as Old Bulgarian language.
Many proto Bolgar rulers had Slavic names. The oldest brother Bayan was also called Bezmer! Bezmer is a Slavic name! Asparuh himself was half Slav (his mother was Ukrainian Slav)
The old Bulgarians were a Scythian people! No connection with turkic tribes!
632 - kanas Kubrat unites the Bulgarians against the TURKIC Empire of Ashina! If Kubrat was Turkic why he attacked his own people???? is absurd! Kubrat defeats the turks and created Old Great Bulgaria!
Pozdrav ... does enybody knows how is that film called - it is going on in middleage in the time of pagan slavs... one of the tribe goes to kovlad and he learns him how to make swords... please if enybody knows - reply me. I would realy apriciate it
The truth about Bulgarians for me that we are a mixture of Bulgarians and Slavs - with predominantly role of the Bulgarians. We cannot deny our huge Slav element in our nation. But the bulgarian element has the leading role!
The language became Greek later after the separation of the Empire, in the beginning the Latin was used. The culture wasn't exactly Greek, but just a continuation of the Roman Christian culture, based on the Eastern Patriarchates etc. And the early Roman culture itself was pretty Hellenized anyway - "Conquered we conquer", you know... ;)
Romans, not Byzantines, Gabriele! ;) "Byzantium" is a relatively modern term, created by Renaissance historiographers to more easily name the (Eastern) Roman Empire of the Dark and Middle Ages. The country itself was the direct descendant of the ancient Roman Empire though, the people called themselves Romans and did much to preserve the ancient Roman legislation, culture etc.
Not exactly. It's between Bulgars and Romeans, but then the Slavs ally with the Bulgars against the common enemy, thus forming the still existing Danubian Bulgaria.
The Bulgars are not Bulgarians. The Bulgarians were formed from the mix of Bulgars, Slavs and other local population, but the Bulgars (aka Proto-Bulgarians) were not Slavs themselves.
This battle is the battle after which Bulgarians made their own country in 681. It was fought by the Bulgarians. After that Bulgarians united with the Slavic tribes, inhabiting the land between Balkan Mountain and Danube and created Bulgaria.
You can see that in the movie the Slavs are fighting together with the Bulgars. As for real history, the Slavs were probably conquered. But we're talking about the movie now...
ASSAN dinasty - there is nothing like this. But look there is Asen dinasty and there is notnhig romainian in that dinasty. Everybody tryies to get some of the fame from Bulgaria. We were turks, mongols...BULLSHITS! Read abouth Balhara(Baktria in greek) near Nepal and India.
Asparuh is one of the 3 sons of Kubrat. Kubrat was the khan of Great Bulgaria. He told them not to split up however they al wanted to rule and did so. Asparuh settled in Europe, another sun cretated the "volga Bulgaria" and another joined up with other tribes. the only one that still remains is Current Dannube Bulgaria.
And I've heard IIRC about the Dulat - they're mentioned in the series "The Bulgarians", which I've uploaded (they're on Bulgarian though). I think they even visited them... ;)
Originally Bulgarians had come from Asia and there is no doubt about it. But they were great and potent nation which created the oldest country in Europe with more than 1300 years of history. After that in Europe came 9also from Asia) the tribes from which the modern European countries had been created!
According to the Byzantine chronicler Michael of Syria in his "Church History" the Bulgars and the Alans were the only two people to have lived in cities to the north of the Caucasus. However, Michael of Syria does mention the Bulgars also among the peoples living in tents, which all historians confirm to mean that either some parts of the Bulgars were nomadic and some - settled, or that they were semi-nomadic.
Most scythian/sarmatian tribes were either nomadic or semi-nomadic.Bulgarians were semi nomadic since they(and the alans) were discibed as people who have many towns but some of them live in tents.Note that both bulgarians and alans were described this way.
im romanian and i know that bulgarians camed in the VII a.d from great bulgaria(north of caspian sea)in waves but at last they settled at the south of danube were there was the byzantine empire.after houndred years the romanian and bulgarians maked a kingdom wich it was called the bulgaro-valachian kingdom ruled by ASSAN dinasty
My name is written Asen in my passport. It should be spelled Assen, but most of our institutions are pretty dumb when transcribing names and that leads to a mispronounciation. It should be Assen yes.
The double S is needed only for a more English-speaking context to show that it's a light S and not a hard S. Otherwise I don't think it's necessary to use a double S. ;)
Sarmatians were also nomads. Bulgarians and Alans (Sarmatic tribes) left together Central Asia sometimes in 200 AD. Alans are today´s Portugal and Spanish people.
hehe in my country in the past our leaders were called KNEAZ and theyre region were named KNEZAt.and yes i say just one thing bulgaryans camed from the north of caspian sea.
Actualy we were in one tsardom(not kingdom-try to called tzar(imperor)Peter The Great-king...of all russians, it sounds funny) many ceturies. Same country, army, culture(arheologicaly), language, letters...The founders of wallachia & moldavia are bulgarian feodals...
May be, a little bit we are something like brothers...But i can't say that for the nort-west part of Romania
I read all your comments guys, some of them are interesting but many stink Soviet propoganda against all turkic nations (kazakh, usbek, kirgyz, turkmen, tatar, bashkir, karakalpak, karashai, gagauz, altay and etc. sorry if i did not mention someone else). U are people intelligent enough to understand that it was specal policy of Communist party (devide and rule).
Very good source to reconsider Turc theme is ht book of Lev Gumilev, soviet historian but who was banned in soviet era. Now in Astana there is Eurasian University named by him
I tend more to the mediocre thesis - mixed Turkic-Iranic (be it Turkicized Iranics (i.e. Sarmatians) or something else). Just like there are no pure nations now, one could also hardly say there were really pure nations at that time and place as well, IMHO. Actually, isn't that exactly one of the theses for the meaning of "Bulgar"? ;)
yes ure right im a romanian so i know how it is to live under comunist regim(divide et impera).im just 17 years old but i know from my parents,and after 17 years from the colaps of socialism regim is still under rebuilding of the economy.EQUALITE,FRATERNITE,LIBERTE
In western China there are a lot of people from Turkish origin. They look different than the turkihs people in Turkey. It's because the ottoman empire has been stealing bulgarian, serbian and greek children for a long time. That's why there are people with blue eyes in Turkey. And the turkish word "bulga" is just coincidense. The proto-bulgars were independant and seperate ethnic group. End of the dispute. КАЗАХ!!!
The turkists offer an explanation with the turkic word "Bulga" which means mixed people but the root of the name is Bulg(Ar)( not Bulga) and in our language it sounds more like Blgar.Many nations call us Balhari,Bolghi,the Armenians called the Bulgari "Bulh".
Using the indo-iranian languages our name has been translated as noble or leader
The other main theory, besides the one meaning "mixed", is that it's derived from a possible totem animal, a sabis, and thus Bulgars could mean "sabis hunters".
"and bulgar is a old Turkish word it means mixed" - something, which many people, especially modern Turks, seem to forget. The Bulgars were mixed people - not just Turkic or just Iranic, but a mix of the two - Turkic-Iranic (with some eventual other minor mixes), combining the best of both (and, of course, also the worst of both)...
Bulgarian peoples r Turkic look at Circassian Balkarian Turks live in Circassia kabarda balkar republic they same blood to bulgars n balkars r Turks like Bulgars
Actually it's the other way around, remmeber the slaves and the janissaries that the Otoman Empire harvested from the Bulgarian and other christian lands for several centuries. That's why they are a lot of people in Turkey that look like the normal bulgarians.
Modern Bulgarians are considered to be Slavic. The old Bulgars aren't certain, but are most probably a Turkic-Iranic mix. The percentage of these two groups is not yet certain and is a subject of further researches. However, more and more traces of the Iranic part are being discovered with every new research and thus claiming the old Bulgars to be only Turkic is either a historical anachronism or a political propaganda.
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They are considered, but I do not believe that we are that pure Slavs. Kommunistic "wish" to be Slavic because of the Ottoman Empire. The religion has divided us and Bulgarians has difficulties with acceptance of their türkic origin.
Actually, the Turkic propaganda was at its peak exactly during the communist times and now, when history researching is more liberated, it naturally faces logical criticism (which, I admit, sometimes becomes too one-sided).
Yes, I know where Khan Asparuh came from. But Siberia and the lands around have been invaded a lot of times by the mongolians. The people in Tatarstan now don't look like the people that lived there 1500 years ago. The mongols have changed their gene...
BostonEm, if we have turkic origin, can you tell me why half of the bulgarian population have blue eyes, blond hair and the other half as well doesn't look like turks??? We don't look like Tatars, we don't look like Kazaks, we don't look like people from Turkey. Have you been in Bulgaria? Please come so you can see with your eyes...
how old r u its like childish thinking Gagauz Turks have blue eyes blonde hair n they pure blood Turk u dont need to be Turk have dark hair dark eyes its about klimatoloji if u live in siberia ur arms will be small if u live in africa ur arms will be long so its for about ur place
Sorry, guys, but Bulgars were a Turkic tribe, close in ethnic terms to today's Kazan Tatars (have you heard of Volga Bulgria?). Besides contemporary Bulgarians, who refuse to acknowledge this fact due to their unwillingness to be linked in any way with Turks/Turkic tribes emanating in their anti-Turkish-centered nationalism, scholars all around the world take this as a clear fact.
If you can speak Bulgarian, I'd suggest that you watch bTV's "The Documents" series, which I've uploaded. There you'll see that in the past and today there are still many theories about the origin of the ancient Bulgars, only one of which is the "pure Turkic" one. But unlike the Turkic thesis, the other (and more probable) ones are not so fanatical and single-sided and much more open for debate.
Volga Bulgaria and Danube Bulgaria are both born out of the old Great Bulgaria. Bulgarians are not some nomads living on their horses. We had great cities of stone wherever we went, here included.
Second, the Bulgar title is "kanasubigi" and there are no historical sources, claiming the Bulgars to have had the title "khan". But our old historiography has preliminary found as "fact" that since the Bulgars came from the East, they should be "Turkic" and every similarity with Turkic words was retransformed from a similarity to the word itself.
P.S. There is also no clear evidence for the Bulgar belief in "Tangra".
An extremely intriguing stuff. As known, Khan Asparukh was of Turkic (Bulghar) origin. Bulgarians generally dislike Turks because of the hundred years of Ottoman domination. Is Asparukh's Turkic ethnic origin displayed in that movie? And when was is produced? I'm asking Bulgarians to respond to my question.
Asparukh's "Turkic" origin is highly uncertain, considering that his name itself is of Persian origin and he and his brothers also have Slavic names. However, this movie is old (from 1981), so it's also based on the old Turkic thesis, although it's not explicitly expressed.
Old-bulgarians spoke language that belongs to the Turkic family, but it doesn't mean they were old-turks or something. These two words may sound and look similar but they aren't the same thing.
Welcome to the EU, nice to have you there. I'm so looking forward in seeing Europe stronger. Already EU has the biggest economy. But the army is not as the U.S, mainly because he is divided. I think EU should have the military united, with so many view inside the union it's really small change that EU would launch as stupid attack wars as the U.S but it would make Europes defenses much stronger.
Any way do you think Bulgarians would like if Russia were to join in some 20 years.
Yes I understand. Bulgaria doesn't have good memories from the Soviet time, and Russia isn't sending warm feelings to East Europe as old allies "sell out" to EU. They can't bribe allies with gas endlessly for them to stay on Russia's side, it's only a matter of time until they will be standing alone. Any way Russia has got it's own problems, semi-dictatorship, the Mafia, Checnya war, and social and economic problems. They can't go anywhere until this is fixed.
200 000 rushians died 130 years ago so you can speak less turkish. Their bones are buried all over Bulgaria. I don't think there is another country in the world that has build so many monuments for soldiers from another country. The last time we faught agaisnt the russians was more than 10 centuries ago.
Ne bili sme se i bulgarskata konnitza predvojdana ot general Ivan Kolev pobejdava ruskite kazaschki eskadroni. Bulgarite ne iskat da se biyat s rusite. Rusite atakuvat purvi. Bulgarite kontraatakuvat i pobejdavat. Sburkach godinata ne e 1918 estestveno.
Това не е точно така,БГ войника не се интересува кой е врага.Мой пра дядо е един от БГ цавалеристи в този бой.Казваше че "много Руснаци е изклал" ,това бяха буквално думите му.
make europe more defensive from WHAT ??? FKN ALIENS FROM OUTA SPACE WHO IS GOING TO ATTACK YOU NOW??? hmmm their will be a global war CHRISTIANS and MUSLIMS and again!!! SERBS/GREEKS/BULGARS will have to fight too save the WEST and what do we get for it? NOTHING
There isn't going to be any war between Christians and Muslims if EU get's the super-power status as it now seems they will have, why do think Zionists are so afraid of EU. EU will make life more easy for Muslims after that it is only an idiot who thinks that Muslims want war with Christianity. Any way it's a joke if an economical super-power like EU doesn't have strong defenses and the capability to respond to UN emergencies all around the globe, but only on UN terms.
Bulgarian troops, posted by Khan Tervel, helped rescue Constantinople from the Arab expansion of 717-718. In later years (805th, the Franks and the Bulgarian Khan Kroum jointly destroyed the Avar Khanate in Panonia. Thus this aggressive and warlike alliance, which for many centuries had hindered the formation of independent national states in Central Europe was eliminated.
JIMY45GR 6 months ago
The fyromians in the Republic of fyrom, and Macedonian minorities in Greece, Bulgaria, and Albania, continue to proudly call themselves "Macedonians" and consider the "Slav" label an insult and racial slur. The western press was literary bombarded by mails, faxes, and emails from outraged Macedonians who despised being called "Slavs" during the Albanian aggression on Macedonia. in fact fyromians are bulgarians since samuel s capital was ochrid.. 2/3 of fyrom is bulgarian and 1/3 albanians
JIMY45GR 6 months ago
proud to be bulgarian means proud to be a fugitive in fron of basil the samyel slaughter
JIMY45GR 6 months ago
@Askar590 In the movie - yes (it was made in commie times). In reality, they lived both in tents and in stone-built cities (the only people from the steppes, besides the Alans, to do this).
NikeBG 9 months ago
кокошинке, за съжаление, траките са клани периодично около 400 години средата на 3-ти - средата на 7-ми век от готи, хуни, авари, славяни и т.н., така че когато прабългарите се заселват, от тях вече не са останали толкова много. Освен това, Херодот надали е правил разлика между траки и даки когато е направил това изявление :)
DimboTel 1 year ago 6
Hungarian - Bulgarian Brotherhood!!!
HunHorda 1 year ago 9
Вземете дълбоко въздух. Тази про-руска приказка няма нищо общо с прабългарите и тяхното снаражение и успехи . Първо одрисите са 300 години под византийско робство и след няколко набеза от страна на аспаруховите българи успяват в обединение с даките да отнемат васалните претенции на Византия .Второ последната прабългарска конница е унишожена на територията на гр.Ловеч ,те така и не преминават Балкана ,трето Херодот казва: "траките" са най-многобройният народ на света след индийците.
kokushinka 1 year ago
i gi razkatavameeeeee xaxaxaaxaxaxaxxaxa
semnatura 1 year ago
Im proud to be a Bulgarian !
irinaki111 2 years ago 7
Imperium.
The only way forward to our glorious past.
The way to survival of our Race and Civilisation.
Enough of fratricidal wars.
Enough of cousins fighting cousins.
Enough!
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NormanLowell 2 years ago
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Lol... Bulgarians... so funny...
crashoveryu 2 years ago
Who is Belisarius writing to? He looks like a Roman spy to me!
baabaaer 2 years ago
Belisarius was apparently asked by Constantine IV to write a more favourable history of the events, of how he defeated the Bulgars etc. Instead, Belisarius decided to write the truth of what he had seen and this didn't end very well for him.
NikeBG 2 years ago
@NikeBG хаха добър анализ :), реалистичен .
Jigov 9 months ago
Oh! Now I see...
baabaaer 2 years ago
serf cigan commentary
TsarSamuil 2 years ago
vladko0o0 спри се, това е един от малкото сърби които не ни мразят а ти, слагай сол в раната, ето затова ни мразят.
DeianHaustov 2 years ago 5
Khan Asparuh is bulgarian ;)
b0hema 2 years ago
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Very nice movie. Only i don't like is fact that Khan Asparuch was mongoloid Proto-bulgarian,comparing modern Bulgarians, Slavs.Yes, Proto-bulgarian turkish people founded Bulgarian state, but i am happy that nowadays Buglarians belongs to white race and speak slavic language as we Serbs do.
But, movie is wonderful, i got it in an old video tape.
Serbiannation 2 years ago
nononon. we are not mongoloid. the proto bulgarians were like an indo-europeand tribes !!!
Sixb0nes1 2 years ago
Well, to be more correct, the archaeological research of the proto-Bulgarian necropolises shows that the Bulgars were Europeid people with small Mongol admixtures (the level of Mongoloidness was around the same as that of modern Western Europeans). So there were some Mongoloid elements, but it was mostly Europeid. ;)
NikeBG 2 years ago
Bratko, to reply @Six0bnes
Man, i didn't talk about nowadays Bulgarians.Bulgarians belong to white indo-european Slavic(or as someone of you would like to say Tracians but i don't accept it) Nations. 15 000 Proto-Bulgarians were mixed during the time with 100 000 Slavs who adopted non-slavic name.There's no reason to react.
Serbiannation 2 years ago
Uhm, that's rather incorrect too. Archaeology shows that the Bulgars were probably at least as much as the Slavs, if not even more numerous. The "huge Slavic sea" where the Bulgars were just a drop that quickly got dissovled is largely a myth, it seems.
NikeBG 2 years ago
@Serbiannation ako si me reko tatari su to, krv azijatska
nemilosrdni100 1 year ago
Да, наистина има малко, но е малко и се чувствам обиден когато си ислчт че сме били от монголоидната раса.Може би заради снаражението.Може би......
skycontroler 2 years ago
Не е заради снаряжението, а заради незнание от една страна (доста хора дори и тук мислят, че в азиатските степи има само монголоидни племена, което не е вярно), а от друга страна - заради различни пропаганди (като в Република Македония, например).
NikeBG 2 years ago
No idiot! the magyar or bulgar folk were scythian mtdna h2a . h2a ancient european before indoeuropean(gypsy) miggration! we and bulgars have 1 origin the onogur-sabir tribes! they were scytho-huns. genetic iranians!
PANNONcarpathius 2 years ago 2
Indo-Europeans were NOT GYPSYS!!!
Saka(Scythians) were Ariyan!
they were Nomads, gypsies came most likely from greece many year later Ariyans.
but ya Bulgarians, Saka, Mongols, Huns, Turks, Japanese, Korean have genetic relations with "Ir"(Ar,Ariyan) "an"(Land).
yashil17 2 years ago
Indo-Europeans are indeed not Gypsies, though the Gypsies are part of the Indo-Europeans. And they came from India around the 14th-15th century, not from Greece. Western Europeans at that time thought they're Egyptian, not Greek, but it was soon found out they're actually lower-caste Indians.
NikeBG 2 years ago
Nikebg means Bulgarian victory
kkristiyan 3 years ago
Finally! Well, congratulations to you indeed, kkristiyan! I was beginning to wonder how come no one seems to get it! ;)
NikeBG 3 years ago
Nice movie.Too bad it doesn't represent what actually happened.
KpEMuKoBcu 3 years ago 2
yes, but is is done during pressure of russia where the slav connectivity must be present very strong, meaning the bulgarian part must be cut as much as possible
Acunga 3 years ago
hi,tell me please,where i can find the movie "Khan Asparuh" (aka "681 - Glory of the khan") ?
i want to download the full movie.
thank you !
balkanchannel2008 3 years ago
Can you understand Bulgarian?
DarthDormas 3 years ago
kak mojahte da dublirate glasa tochno na Yossif Surchadjiev be? basi i nekadurnitzite.
nikadaka 3 years ago
Does anybody here remember "демонат на империята" ("Dämon der Paschas und Bojaren" in german)? That one was about Wassil Lewski and his comrades fighting the turkish opressors and the pro-ottoman bulgarian boyars in the 19th century. I am looking for this old bulgarian TV series, does anybody now whether there is a DVD edition? Help welcome.
buratino321 3 years ago 2
Great. Khan Asparuch. What a movie. What battle scenes. and all real. I remember seeing that film on east german TV about 30 years ago. Bulgarian movies from these times are very good. It is a shame that all we get nowadays is only U.S. yankee tv crap whilst interesting movies from nearer countries are completely ignored.
buratino321 3 years ago 38
Bulgarians are warriors!
tonydabull 3 years ago 28
Response to rabelai2006: Russia is destined to join EU. We need its culture and power
KINGGIBARA 4 years ago
Response to BostonEM: A lot of scientists would sacrifice a hand if they could proof if it's true or not. How can you proof your Turkic theory? Must know that not a long time ago the history was based mostly on conclusions built of propaganda. Today the scientific element is starting to prevail and the latest discoveries shows that Turkic theory is getting weaker and it'll most probably be proved that the Bulges are much older tribe and much more civilized than we previously accepted.
KINGGIBARA 4 years ago 2
The version that the old Bolgars were turkic is a stupid pan Turkish propaganda! This is absurd!
BOLGAR11 4 years ago
Slavs and Bolgars spoke a similar language, because they lived together long time in Ukraina. From the mixture of slavic and bolgar languages was created Old Church Slavonic, or also known as Old Bulgarian language.
Many proto Bolgar rulers had Slavic names. The oldest brother Bayan was also called Bezmer! Bezmer is a Slavic name! Asparuh himself was half Slav (his mother was Ukrainian Slav)
BOLGAR11 4 years ago
The old Bulgarians were a Scythian people! No connection with turkic tribes!
632 - kanas Kubrat unites the Bulgarians against the TURKIC Empire of Ashina! If Kubrat was Turkic why he attacked his own people???? is absurd! Kubrat defeats the turks and created Old Great Bulgaria!
BOLGAR11 4 years ago 4
Pozdrav ... does enybody knows how is that film called - it is going on in middleage in the time of pagan slavs... one of the tribe goes to kovlad and he learns him how to make swords... please if enybody knows - reply me. I would realy apriciate it
MORGOTHpagan 4 years ago
да бе я ми вище профила
vaskoninja 4 years ago
The truth about Bulgarians for me that we are a mixture of Bulgarians and Slavs - with predominantly role of the Bulgarians. We cannot deny our huge Slav element in our nation. But the bulgarian element has the leading role!
kkasapa 4 years ago
Bulgaria rules
izkormvach 4 years ago
БЪЛГАРИТЕ НЕ СА НОМАДИ!
batbaian79 4 years ago
I know, but the byzantine culture and language are greeks, not latin.
Gabriele1979 4 years ago
The language became Greek later after the separation of the Empire, in the beginning the Latin was used. The culture wasn't exactly Greek, but just a continuation of the Roman Christian culture, based on the Eastern Patriarchates etc. And the early Roman culture itself was pretty Hellenized anyway - "Conquered we conquer", you know... ;)
NikeBG 4 years ago
Byzantines not Romans, Zeratul
Gabriele1979 4 years ago
Romans, not Byzantines, Gabriele! ;) "Byzantium" is a relatively modern term, created by Renaissance historiographers to more easily name the (Eastern) Roman Empire of the Dark and Middle Ages. The country itself was the direct descendant of the ancient Roman Empire though, the people called themselves Romans and did much to preserve the ancient Roman legislation, culture etc.
NikeBG 4 years ago
I absolutely agree with you my friend, the name of the byzantine empire is only fiction of the modern historians like Montesque atc,
kyroz3 3 years ago 3
Why there are not english subtitles?
It will be very good...
wilhelmsezane 4 years ago
Look to the right, press "More info" in the small video information window and there you'll see the English translation.
NikeBG 4 years ago
Yes MARK and we beaten the romans :D !
Zeratul331 4 years ago
So is this another war between Slavs And Byzantine (east Roman empire) ????
Mark123USA 4 years ago
Not exactly. It's between Bulgars and Romeans, but then the Slavs ally with the Bulgars against the common enemy, thus forming the still existing Danubian Bulgaria.
NikeBG 4 years ago
But aren't bulgars slavs themselves?
Mark123USA 4 years ago
The Bulgars are not Bulgarians. The Bulgarians were formed from the mix of Bulgars, Slavs and other local population, but the Bulgars (aka Proto-Bulgarians) were not Slavs themselves.
NikeBG 4 years ago
This battle is the battle after which Bulgarians made their own country in 681. It was fought by the Bulgarians. After that Bulgarians united with the Slavic tribes, inhabiting the land between Balkan Mountain and Danube and created Bulgaria.
kkasapa 4 years ago
You can see that in the movie the Slavs are fighting together with the Bulgars. As for real history, the Slavs were probably conquered. But we're talking about the movie now...
NikeBG 4 years ago
BULGARIAN PRIDE
ultragang 4 years ago
yes is true.enough with soviet propaganda im from Romania and i know what means to be under soviet power.long live liberty.
DRAGOVODA 4 years ago
ASSAN dinasty - there is nothing like this. But look there is Asen dinasty and there is notnhig romainian in that dinasty. Everybody tryies to get some of the fame from Bulgaria. We were turks, mongols...BULLSHITS! Read abouth Balhara(Baktria in greek) near Nepal and India.
Raao1 4 years ago
Asparuh is one of the 3 sons of Kubrat. Kubrat was the khan of Great Bulgaria. He told them not to split up however they al wanted to rule and did so. Asparuh settled in Europe, another sun cretated the "volga Bulgaria" and another joined up with other tribes. the only one that still remains is Current Dannube Bulgaria.
veridas2 4 years ago 2
great film my neighbour across danube :D
DRAGOVODA 4 years ago
Khan Asparuh was from tribe called Dulu, I'm from Kazakh tribe called Dulat
talker1975 4 years ago
Dulo. ;)
And I've heard IIRC about the Dulat - they're mentioned in the series "The Bulgarians", which I've uploaded (they're on Bulgarian though). I think they even visited them... ;)
NikeBG 4 years ago
whatewer being bulgargarians, half turkish-mongololians or mostly slavs-they are great people. A French guy
bessoles2006 4 years ago
Originally Bulgarians had come from Asia and there is no doubt about it. But they were great and potent nation which created the oldest country in Europe with more than 1300 years of history. After that in Europe came 9also from Asia) the tribes from which the modern European countries had been created!
kkasapa 4 years ago
Old Bulgarians were sarmatians(ARIANS)and their leaders were KANASI(PRINCE),KNIAZE.
valsinatsk 4 years ago
How you would explain that they were nomads and had nomadic culture?
talker1975 4 years ago
According to the Byzantine chronicler Michael of Syria in his "Church History" the Bulgars and the Alans were the only two people to have lived in cities to the north of the Caucasus. However, Michael of Syria does mention the Bulgars also among the peoples living in tents, which all historians confirm to mean that either some parts of the Bulgars were nomadic and some - settled, or that they were semi-nomadic.
NikeBG 4 years ago
Most scythian/sarmatian tribes were either nomadic or semi-nomadic.Bulgarians were semi nomadic since they(and the alans) were discibed as people who have many towns but some of them live in tents.Note that both bulgarians and alans were described this way.
patkakurmama 4 years ago
im romanian and i know that bulgarians camed in the VII a.d from great bulgaria(north of caspian sea)in waves but at last they settled at the south of danube were there was the byzantine empire.after houndred years the romanian and bulgarians maked a kingdom wich it was called the bulgaro-valachian kingdom ruled by ASSAN dinasty
DRAGOVODA 4 years ago
The Asen dynasty (although it sounded more like "Asyan" due to a specific in the Bulgarian language from that time). ;)
NikeBG 4 years ago
anyway from a point of history wee are a little bit brothers :D
DRAGOVODA 4 years ago
True.
NikeBG 4 years ago
ASSEN.
spa05akw 4 years ago
so i am right no?
DRAGOVODA 4 years ago
My name is written Asen in my passport. It should be spelled Assen, but most of our institutions are pretty dumb when transcribing names and that leads to a mispronounciation. It should be Assen yes.
batencho 2 years ago
The double S is needed only for a more English-speaking context to show that it's a light S and not a hard S. Otherwise I don't think it's necessary to use a double S. ;)
NikeBG 4 years ago
Sarmatians were also nomads. Bulgarians and Alans (Sarmatic tribes) left together Central Asia sometimes in 200 AD. Alans are today´s Portugal and Spanish people.
spa05akw 4 years ago
hehe in my country in the past our leaders were called KNEAZ and theyre region were named KNEZAt.and yes i say just one thing bulgaryans camed from the north of caspian sea.
DRAGOVODA 4 years ago
Actualy we were in one tsardom(not kingdom-try to called tzar(imperor)Peter The Great-king...of all russians, it sounds funny) many ceturies. Same country, army, culture(arheologicaly), language, letters...The founders of wallachia & moldavia are bulgarian feodals...
May be, a little bit we are something like brothers...But i can't say that for the nort-west part of Romania
VariousArtis 4 years ago
I read all your comments guys, some of them are interesting but many stink Soviet propoganda against all turkic nations (kazakh, usbek, kirgyz, turkmen, tatar, bashkir, karakalpak, karashai, gagauz, altay and etc. sorry if i did not mention someone else). U are people intelligent enough to understand that it was specal policy of Communist party (devide and rule).
talker1975 4 years ago
Very good source to reconsider Turc theme is ht book of Lev Gumilev, soviet historian but who was banned in soviet era. Now in Astana there is Eurasian University named by him
talker1975 4 years ago
I agree with NikeBG.
spa05akw 4 years ago
That's rather doubtful, considering it was the communists who were supporting the Turkic theory of the Bulgar's origin...
NikeBG 4 years ago
In what origin of Bulgars do u believe?
talker1975 4 years ago
I tend more to the mediocre thesis - mixed Turkic-Iranic (be it Turkicized Iranics (i.e. Sarmatians) or something else). Just like there are no pure nations now, one could also hardly say there were really pure nations at that time and place as well, IMHO. Actually, isn't that exactly one of the theses for the meaning of "Bulgar"? ;)
NikeBG 4 years ago
the genesis of europe start from the north of caspian sea.salutation
DRAGOVODA 4 years ago
yes ure right im a romanian so i know how it is to live under comunist regim(divide et impera).im just 17 years old but i know from my parents,and after 17 years from the colaps of socialism regim is still under rebuilding of the economy.EQUALITE,FRATERNITE,LIBERTE
DRAGOVODA 4 years ago
In western China there are a lot of people from Turkish origin. They look different than the turkihs people in Turkey. It's because the ottoman empire has been stealing bulgarian, serbian and greek children for a long time. That's why there are people with blue eyes in Turkey. And the turkish word "bulga" is just coincidense. The proto-bulgars were independant and seperate ethnic group. End of the dispute. КАЗАХ!!!
gshugar 4 years ago 4
Yes. And they were called janitchari.
spa05akw 4 years ago
ATAKA is more gypsy than nazi...
patkakurmama 4 years ago
Well there's another explantation of our name.
The turkists offer an explanation with the turkic word "Bulga" which means mixed people but the root of the name is Bulg(Ar)( not Bulga) and in our language it sounds more like Blgar.Many nations call us Balhari,Bolghi,the Armenians called the Bulgari "Bulh".
Using the indo-iranian languages our name has been translated as noble or leader
patkakurmama 4 years ago
The Arabs called us "Burdzhan". ;)
The other main theory, besides the one meaning "mixed", is that it's derived from a possible totem animal, a sabis, and thus Bulgars could mean "sabis hunters".
NikeBG 4 years ago
Gagauzs are Ohguz Turks and anatolian Turks too and old Bulgars were Turkic but they mixed slavs and bulgar is a old Turkish word it means mixed
BalkanSahini 4 years ago
prove it
patkakurmama 4 years ago
"and bulgar is a old Turkish word it means mixed" - something, which many people, especially modern Turks, seem to forget. The Bulgars were mixed people - not just Turkic or just Iranic, but a mix of the two - Turkic-Iranic (with some eventual other minor mixes), combining the best of both (and, of course, also the worst of both)...
NikeBG 4 years ago
The Gagauz are of Bulgarian origin although they speak a Turkic language.
The Volga Bulgaria was invaded by mongolo-tatars that's why the people from Tatarstan are turkic.
The main reigions of the ancient Bulgarians were Zoroastrism and Christianity and even Mithraism
patkakurmama 4 years ago
Bulgarian peoples r Turkic look at Circassian Balkarian Turks live in Circassia kabarda balkar republic they same blood to bulgars n balkars r Turks like Bulgars
Turker91 4 years ago
Actually it's the other way around, remmeber the slaves and the janissaries that the Otoman Empire harvested from the Bulgarian and other christian lands for several centuries. That's why they are a lot of people in Turkey that look like the normal bulgarians.
BGSoccerMagic 4 years ago
Bulgars are not Turkic, Turks are Bulgars.
Bulgars are the original.
The name BolgARian comes first and predates the name Turk.
PK7531 4 years ago
Modern Bulgars are Slavs, but proto Bulgars are Turkic.
TurkmenDevrimi 4 years ago
Modern Bulgarians are considered to be Slavic. The old Bulgars aren't certain, but are most probably a Turkic-Iranic mix. The percentage of these two groups is not yet certain and is a subject of further researches. However, more and more traces of the Iranic part are being discovered with every new research and thus claiming the old Bulgars to be only Turkic is either a historical anachronism or a political propaganda.
NikeBG 4 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
They are considered, but I do not believe that we are that pure Slavs. Kommunistic "wish" to be Slavic because of the Ottoman Empire. The religion has divided us and Bulgarians has difficulties with acceptance of their türkic origin.
spa05akw 4 years ago
Actually, the Turkic propaganda was at its peak exactly during the communist times and now, when history researching is more liberated, it naturally faces logical criticism (which, I admit, sometimes becomes too one-sided).
NikeBG 4 years ago
Yes, I know where Khan Asparuh came from. But Siberia and the lands around have been invaded a lot of times by the mongolians. The people in Tatarstan now don't look like the people that lived there 1500 years ago. The mongols have changed their gene...
gshugar 4 years ago
Do u no Bulgar city in Tataristan? First bulgars came from Siberia. They were Turkic. but modern bulgars aren't Turkic ;) they are slavs
OghuzKlan 4 years ago
There are no pure Slavs. Slavs came from Northern Europe and were blond with blue eyes. I do not see many such people in Bulgaria.
spa05akw 4 years ago
Not predominantly, but we're not a few either! ;)
NikeBG 4 years ago
BostonEm, if we have turkic origin, can you tell me why half of the bulgarian population have blue eyes, blond hair and the other half as well doesn't look like turks??? We don't look like Tatars, we don't look like Kazaks, we don't look like people from Turkey. Have you been in Bulgaria? Please come so you can see with your eyes...
gshugar 5 years ago
how old r u its like childish thinking Gagauz Turks have blue eyes blonde hair n they pure blood Turk u dont need to be Turk have dark hair dark eyes its about klimatoloji if u live in siberia ur arms will be small if u live in africa ur arms will be long so its for about ur place
Turker91 4 years ago
Sorry, guys, but Bulgars were a Turkic tribe, close in ethnic terms to today's Kazan Tatars (have you heard of Volga Bulgria?). Besides contemporary Bulgarians, who refuse to acknowledge this fact due to their unwillingness to be linked in any way with Turks/Turkic tribes emanating in their anti-Turkish-centered nationalism, scholars all around the world take this as a clear fact.
BostonEm 5 years ago
If you can speak Bulgarian, I'd suggest that you watch bTV's "The Documents" series, which I've uploaded. There you'll see that in the past and today there are still many theories about the origin of the ancient Bulgars, only one of which is the "pure Turkic" one. But unlike the Turkic thesis, the other (and more probable) ones are not so fanatical and single-sided and much more open for debate.
NikeBG 5 years ago
Volga Bulgaria and Danube Bulgaria are both born out of the old Great Bulgaria. Bulgarians are not some nomads living on their horses. We had great cities of stone wherever we went, here included.
shashaveli 4 years ago
han = turkish word , tengri = turkish word ...
ridvanco 5 years ago
First, han is not Turkish, but Turkic.
Second, the Bulgar title is "kanasubigi" and there are no historical sources, claiming the Bulgars to have had the title "khan". But our old historiography has preliminary found as "fact" that since the Bulgars came from the East, they should be "Turkic" and every similarity with Turkic words was retransformed from a similarity to the word itself.
P.S. There is also no clear evidence for the Bulgar belief in "Tangra".
NikeBG 5 years ago
Europea, aunt, from us, fear, be afraid of, go on, TURK IS COMING europe
korhan003 5 years ago
Talk to my hand!
spa05akw 4 years ago
An extremely intriguing stuff. As known, Khan Asparukh was of Turkic (Bulghar) origin. Bulgarians generally dislike Turks because of the hundred years of Ottoman domination. Is Asparukh's Turkic ethnic origin displayed in that movie? And when was is produced? I'm asking Bulgarians to respond to my question.
BostonEm 5 years ago
Asparukh's "Turkic" origin is highly uncertain, considering that his name itself is of Persian origin and he and his brothers also have Slavic names. However, this movie is old (from 1981), so it's also based on the old Turkic thesis, although it's not explicitly expressed.
NikeBG 5 years ago
I have heard of this thesis. And what are the Slavic-sounding names of his brothers?
BostonEm 5 years ago
Bat-Baian's (the eldest brother) was, IIRC, Bezmer. Asparuh's Slavic form is Ispor.
NikeBG 5 years ago
I wonder also. What Slavic?
spa05akw 4 years ago
Proto-bulgarians are indo-europeans of iranian origin
RinAsahina 5 years ago
ATAKA POWER!
gazara22 5 years ago
"ATAKA" is a nazi political party and of course they suck.
BGSoccerMagic 4 years ago
Old-bulgarians spoke language that belongs to the Turkic family, but it doesn't mean they were old-turks or something. These two words may sound and look similar but they aren't the same thing.
BGSoccerMagic 4 years ago
there were battles against serbia and byzantines and later against turks....
SERBSERBS 5 years ago
When was made this movie?
blackxs1987 5 years ago
More than 20 years ago.
selqndur 5 years ago
1981, to be more precise... ;)
NikeBG 5 years ago
Against the Eastern Roman Empire, aka Byzantium. In this case, against Emperor Constantine IV Pogonatus in 680 AD.
NikeBG 5 years ago
Against who Bulgarians fought ?
vincefr 5 years ago
Welcome! :) Although I possibly could've made the subtitles a bit better, if I had some time...
NikeBG 5 years ago
Welcome to the EU, nice to have you there. I'm so looking forward in seeing Europe stronger. Already EU has the biggest economy. But the army is not as the U.S, mainly because he is divided. I think EU should have the military united, with so many view inside the union it's really small change that EU would launch as stupid attack wars as the U.S but it would make Europes defenses much stronger.
Any way do you think Bulgarians would like if Russia were to join in some 20 years.
rabelai2006 5 years ago
I personally doubt it. The Russian-Bulgarian relations are not really good recently, so...
NikeBG 5 years ago
Yes I understand. Bulgaria doesn't have good memories from the Soviet time, and Russia isn't sending warm feelings to East Europe as old allies "sell out" to EU. They can't bribe allies with gas endlessly for them to stay on Russia's side, it's only a matter of time until they will be standing alone. Any way Russia has got it's own problems, semi-dictatorship, the Mafia, Checnya war, and social and economic problems. They can't go anywhere until this is fixed.
rabelai2006 5 years ago
200 000 rushians died 130 years ago so you can speak less turkish. Their bones are buried all over Bulgaria. I don't think there is another country in the world that has build so many monuments for soldiers from another country. The last time we faught agaisnt the russians was more than 10 centuries ago.
BGSoccerMagic 5 years ago
Unfortunately not, the löast time we fought against Russians was 1918, WWI.
bgtop9962 4 years ago
we actually never got involved in a real combat agaisnt them during WWI, the military refused to fight agaisnt them.
BGSoccerMagic 4 years ago
Ne bili sme se i bulgarskata konnitza predvojdana ot general Ivan Kolev pobejdava ruskite kazaschki eskadroni. Bulgarite ne iskat da se biyat s rusite. Rusite atakuvat purvi. Bulgarite kontraatakuvat i pobejdavat. Sburkach godinata ne e 1918 estestveno.
bgtop9962 4 years ago
Това не е точно така,БГ войника не се интересува кой е врага.Мой пра дядо е един от БГ цавалеристи в този бой.Казваше че "много Руснаци е изклал" ,това бяха буквално думите му.
Playboytaxi 4 years ago
Знаете ли от къде мога да си изтегля целия филм ?
PROstrelqn 4 years ago
zamunda. com
patkakurmama 4 years ago
Bulgarian have great history...
klemaks 4 years ago
Proizvedeniya posveteni na general Kolev:
Иван Вазов: Добруджанската конница
Yordan Yovkov: Beliyat eskadron.
bgtop9962 4 years ago
make europe more defensive from WHAT ??? FKN ALIENS FROM OUTA SPACE WHO IS GOING TO ATTACK YOU NOW??? hmmm their will be a global war CHRISTIANS and MUSLIMS and again!!! SERBS/GREEKS/BULGARS will have to fight too save the WEST and what do we get for it? NOTHING
srbijazasrbe 5 years ago
There isn't going to be any war between Christians and Muslims if EU get's the super-power status as it now seems they will have, why do think Zionists are so afraid of EU. EU will make life more easy for Muslims after that it is only an idiot who thinks that Muslims want war with Christianity. Any way it's a joke if an economical super-power like EU doesn't have strong defenses and the capability to respond to UN emergencies all around the globe, but only on UN terms.
rabelai2006 5 years ago
THANKS HEAPS FOR POSTING THIS- including subtitles text!
phillipaj 5 years ago