Re: [tied] Re: The Normans and their language

Steve Woodson wrote:

> The Bulgars moved into an area more heavily settled, the Balkans, and may
> have been a minority ruling elite, only. Remember that much (most?) of the
> Bulgar people remained along the Volga where they already had a kingdom.

You are probably right, but I wonder whether this theory about the different ethnic
composition (proportion of Slavs) in early Bulgarian and Hungarian kingdoms was
created only to explain the known linguistic features of both societies, or was it
based on some independent data (archeological sources, written documents).

Michal