Editing Bulgarians (section)

=== Bulgarian ethnogenetic conception ===
The Bulgarians are usually regarded as part of the [[Slavs|Slavic]] ethnolinguistic group.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NwvoM-ZFoAgC&pg=PA134 |title=One Europe, many nations: a historical dictionary of European national groups |pages=134–135 |access-date=2011-11-13 |isbn=9780313309847 |last1=Minahan |first1=James |year=2000 |publisher=Greenwood |archive-date=28 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928201441/https://books.google.com/books?id=NwvoM-ZFoAgC&pg=PA134 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Fine|first=John Van Antwerp|title=The early medieval Balkans: a critical survey from the sixth to the late twelfth century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YbS9QmwDC58C&pg=PA30|year=1991|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=978-0-472-08149-3|page=308|access-date=29 June 2020|archive-date=28 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928201443/https://books.google.com/books?id=YbS9QmwDC58C&pg=PA30|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Kopeček|first=Michal|editor=Balázs Trencsényi|title=Discourses of collective identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770–1945): texts and commentaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TpPWvubBL0MC&pg=PA240|year=2007|publisher=Central European University Press|isbn=978-963-7326-60-8|page=240|access-date=29 June 2020|archive-date=15 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200915144811/https://books.google.com/books?id=TpPWvubBL0MC&pg=PA240%2F|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=reykjavkur>Axel Kristinsson (2010). ''Expansions: Competition and Conquest in Europe Since the Bronze Age''. Reykjavíkur Akademían. {{ISBN|9979992212}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=9s2uzr47M-cC&pg=PA194= p. 194].</ref> However the controversial issue of their ethnogenesis is a popular subject in the works of the [[nationalist]] scientists. The fierce debates started in the 19th century and the questionable proportions of the presumed Thracian, Bulgar, and Slavic ancestry, have depended on the [[geopolitical]] situation of the country and on ideological and political predilections.<ref>Nikolova, L.; Gergova, D. (2017). "Contemporary Bulgarian Archaeology as a Social Practice in the Later Twentieth to Early Twenty-first Century". In: Lozny L., ed. ''Archaeology of the Communist Era''. Springer. {{ISBN|978-3-319-45108-4}}.</ref><ref>Diana Mishkova (2011). "Differentiation in Entanglement: Debates on Antiquity, Ethnogenesis and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Bulgaria". In Klaniczay, Gábor and Werner, Michael, eds. ''Multiple Antiquities – Multiple Modernities: Ancient Histories in Nineteenth Century European Cultures''. Frankfurt, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 213–246.</ref> These supposed proportions have been changed several times during the 20th century, emphasizing usually the Slavic part of Bulgarian ancestry, related to the traditionally strong [[Russophilia]] in the country.<ref>Stefan Detchev (2009). "Who are the Bulgarians? 'Race,' Science and Politics in Fin-de-siècle Bulgaria". In Diana Mishkova, ed. ''We, the People: Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe''. Central European University Press. {{ISBN|9639776289}}. pp. 237–269.</ref><ref>T. Kamusella, Peter Burke (2008, ''The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe'', Springer, {{ISBN|0230583474}}, p. 285.</ref> However, during the 1970s [[Thracology]] was especially supported by the [[People's Republic of Bulgaria|communist authority]], as an attempt to underline the indigenous influence into the Bulgarian ethnogenesis. After the [[fall of Communism]], the spiritualized image of the Thracians began to fade. Following the cooling of [[Bulgaria–Russia relations|relations with Russia]] and the [[Bulgarian EU Accession|country's EU accession]], the opinion on significant Bulgar genetic impact was launched among nationalist circles that lately have downplayed the country's Slavic ancestry.<ref>Raymond Detrez, ''Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria'', Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, {{ISBN|1442241802}}, pp. 189–190.</ref><ref>Tchavdar Marinov (2015). "Ancient Thrace in the Modern Imagination: Ideological Aspects of the Construction of Thracian Studies in Southeast Europe (Romania, Greece, Bulgaria)". In ''Entangled Histories of the Balkans''. Vol. 3. {{ISBN|9789004290365}}. pp 10–117.</ref> From a limited group of Turkic equestrian nomads, the Danubian Bulgars were reinterpreted by them as a numerous [[Aryan people]], with a unique culture.<ref>Rumen Daskalov (2011). {{lang|bg|italic=yes|Чудният свят на древните българи}} [The Wonderful World of the Ancient Bulgarians]. Gutenberg. {{ISBN|9546171212}}, pp. 7–11.</ref><ref>Aleksandar Nikolov (2013). {{lang|bg|italic=yes|"Параисторията като феномен на прехода: преоткриването на древните българи"}} [Parahistory as a Phenomenon of Transition: The Rediscovery of the Ancient Bulgarians]. In Y. Todorov and A. Lunin, eds. {{lang|bg|italic=yes|Историческият хабитус: опредметената история}} [''The Historical Habitus: Objectified History'']. pp. 24–63.</ref>{{Publisher missing|date=January 2025}}