Aren't you
> > being a bit anachronistic in implying that the
> > "something" which survived for 1300 years is the state
> > founded by Asparukh?*****
>
> And the Slavs on the Balkan peninsula, and everyone who wanted to
> take part.
To illustrate my point, just thought of the following:
Est igitur, inquit Africanus, res publica res populi, populus autem
non omnis hominum coetus quoquo
modo congregatus, sed coetus multitudinis iuris consensu et utilitatis
communione sociatus. Eius autem coetus
prima causa est non tam inbecillitas quam naturalis quaedam hominum
quasi congregatio...
I guess such ideas are not to be named the results of latter day
political correctness.
Eva