За „приятелите на Сократ“ и прабългарите при Балчик (по повод една рецензия): About the “friends of Socrates” and the Proto-Bulgars at Balchik (referring to a review)
Journal: Bulgarian Portal for Open Science
Year: 2019

A paper by Evgenia Komatarova-Balinova was published in 2018 in the proceedings of a symposium in memoriam Irina Shtereva (1942 – 2015). The paper questions in the first place the accuracy of the methods and the arguments used. According to the author, during the 1950’s the concept of the Caucasian origin of the Proto-Bulgars was imposed in the Bulgarian historiography “through the sanction of the Soviet national policy” and reached “the same mythological dimensions as the legendary tale of the