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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> fortuna11111 wrote:
> > The "Bulgaria" known to my Old Ukrainian
> >> ancestors in the early 12th c. was ruled by Pecheneg
> >> warlords, and the 2nd Bulgarian State was largely the
> >> creation of subsequently Slavicized Vlachs.******
> >
> > I never studied anything of the kind, sincerely. Source?
>
> You are joking, aren't you? I don't know what to think about.
What did
> you learned in fact about Johanes Kaloianes? Was he a Slav
or a Bulgar?
>
>
> alex
I think it was said they were probably Kumans. I read this very
long ago and most of my books are in Bulgaria. What I have
here, Bozhidar Dimitrov, 2001, refers to the old sources on the
subject, including Nikita Honiat, and claims Bulgarian historians
have no grounds to say they were Kumans since "the old
sources say nothing on the subject." Which probably means
they also do not say they were Wallachians.
I belong to a generation which faced a huge shift of regimes,
beliefs and styles of living. About half of my life on earth has
been changes of a kind that left me breathless at times. If I have
learned a single thing from those changes, it is the following:
never to exclude an argument before I have carefully considered
it and never to accept one without doing the same. And
something else: always ask where the whole idea comes from,
what reasons stand behind it, etc.
So some people may laugh that I want to re-read the old sources
(and not just read quotes from them or take the words of others
for granted), but it is my way of 1. confronting my own possible
illusions, 2. confronting the illusions of others. To quote Ran
HaCohen, a journalist who writes for Antiwar: History contains a
myriad of facts. You can always take out a few or add some.
Who can check?
I would add from myself: There is no such thing as objective
history. It is clear that everyone reflects his own biases. There
are some people who do a good job in hiding their biases.
Which does not make them more sincere.
I hope I have made myself clear.
Eva