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The Origin of the Slavs according to Anthropological Data

Summary/Abstract: On the basis of anthropological research and of theoretical conceptions, founded on the knowledge acquired so far about the reasonable man of today, the authors state their attitude regarding the origin of the Slavs, their initial homeland and their participation as a basic component in the formation of the Bulgarian people. The Indo-European peoples, concretely speaking, the Slavs, the Baits and the Germans, are indicated as the oldest palaeolithic inhabitants of the Central and the Northern parts of Eastern Europe. By means of a study of the genesis and the changes in racial types, changes characteristic of the different ethnics, the authors have traced the historical fate of the Slavs and their road through the present territory of the USSR to the Balkan Peninsula. They emphasize that the northern race, the basic one for the Slavs, had been mixed with the Mediterranean race while still on the territory of the USSR, and, to a lesser extent, with certain racial types with which they had had contacts, and which bore the Mongoloid signs of the Turanian and Ugorian races. They further trace the processes of the mingling of the Slavs with the Thraco-Illyrian population of the Balkan Peninsula, the Proto-Bulgarians of Asparouch and Kouber, as well as other ethnic groups of later invasions into the Bulgarian lands, all of which were gradually absorbed by the Slavs. In conclusion the authors infer that the Mediterranean race, now predominant in its different variants among the present-day population of Bulgaria, was inherited, aside from the local Thracian population, also from the Slavs, who form the basis of the ethnogenesis of the Bulgarian people.

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