Re: Indo-Iranian

From: g
Message: 23421
Date: 2003-06-17

>Yet what I disagree with is that they take a picture of
>Samuil with the clear inscription in Old Bulgarian "Samiul, Tsar
>of the Bulgarians", put it in a museum in Skopje and write down
>for the uninformed visitors (who can hardly read Old Bulgarian):
>Samuil, Tsar of the Macedonians. I think you can understand
>why I disagree with that.

Why? Karl der Grosse/Charlemagne was Kaiser of the French,
of the Germans, of the Austrians, of the Swiss and of the
Italians. If the French say he was the emperor of the French
I don't think that the Rhinelanders in Aachen or the Franconians
in Wuerzburg or Nuernberg would protest. :)

>Eva

(the other) George