I can't read Bulgarian and my Russian is very rusty. Could someone look
at these websites and tell me a little about their underlying ideas and
ideologies?
They are both run by Emil Zhivkov, who writes on this newsgroup, so why
don't you ask him, i.e. "Ziezi". Generally, the first one is
speculative to real early history -up to current history and culture of
the Bulgarians and people who may or may not be related to them,
including categories even for famous personalities such as Vassil
Levski, and the second URL you mention is one of the many subpages of
the massive meta website of websites you mention first. He has some
nice stuff on there. Travel around the site. One part might have
pictures of Bulgarian costume of different regions, another an article
on Atanasov, the inventor of digital computers, another on the
maltreatment of Macedonians in Greece, another on Christmas songs,
another on Bulgarians in Asia Minor, etc. etc. Some are generally
interesting, like this one on various ancient Christian, Jewish and
Muslim, http://tribal.abv.bg/ but sometimes go to far, for example, when
the Jewish Bulgarian historic congruence is felt even today through such
groups as the Flying Bulgar Klezmer band. A lot of Jewish people got
interested in Eastern and south slavic music through variuos folk
dancing groups in America and Canada as well as from their own roots in
eastern europe. So sometimes the connections these days are more
tenuous than it would seem . The band that plays most Macedonian events
in Southern California is all Americans, some of which are Jewish. But
it is mostly the love of the music that brought the band to prominence,
not ethnic roots. There are a couple of people on this newsgroup that
sometimes speculate about history, and sometimes hit it big and
sometimes it looks odd. For example, do you think that the Italian
house of Bulgari is or was Bulgarian? Well, as the Ottomans took over
Bulgarian territory, some people were able to immigrate to Italy in the
14-15th century, and some may have been there earlier. There are, for
example, towns in Italy where people still speak Albanian or have some
Slavic or Greek vocabulary. And what IS the relationship of the Greek
word B/v/oulgares to Bulgarian or to the English or French word vulgar?
Inquiring minds aren't quite sure.
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