The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-07-11
ANCIENT BULGARIA.
The Bulgarians, Where They Came Prem
and What They Have Been.


hr,,h.,s hv tho pans,av;c s,.;s,;ss ~, ,,.,
sfoeiu 'i'"' MICH i'A'sS u'ASo 40 io'ui VI the
Slavonic, the hollowness of the claim has
been exposed hy Schafarik the learned
..r. q, S,,,,n;o, .,,;,,;,;,s A. ,on,,
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ago 'ls 1T thc oesiihiiiS VI ,he h'h'h CELL
tury the Byzantine historians. Theophanes
and Niccphorus. held the BuIyarians Ia be
E;r,s ,,,,, III. Jr,,;o, s,,.t .ua ,o,s,,s
:, =,
'ii'i ei'io w 'i'o SA'S "AS VI AAus"!' "
their southeastward march from Asia they
came upon the track OF the Slavonians Of
the Indo- European family and passed cen
turtles among them. These Firms seem
to have settled about the town IL Bolsaris,
ON the Volya, whence they take their
name. and in the sixth century they were
driven from their territory between the
Volya and the Tanais by the Avars. those
mysterious PREDECESSORS of the Turks. who.
after terrifying the Eastern Roman Empire
for a season. disappeared under the ad
yanciny Turkish wave. Already under
the Emperor Zeno. in AS. the BuIyarians
had been heard of i'm Eastern Roman his
tory. Their incursions into Hlvria and
Thracia compelIed Anastasius. the sue
cessor OF Vcno. who married his widow
Ariaine to raise his wall against them and
the Ayars. Crossing the frozen Danube.
in $50 under Zaberpan King az the Huns
they defeated the troops OF Justinian and
sprcad over Tbroee 10 tho very walls of
Cons,an,inonlr ravacinar the land from
Tin. Dannhe Ia the ocean and FINN the
Fuxipe ,o Fpirus Nor, than n century
n,sscd boweyer befor,. in 90 Asnan,ch
defeated tbe armies of Constantine Pogo
na,us and founded the first BULGARIAN mon
orcby M Varna an the Euxine
Tn COG the death az Eaion ,h. last yroa,
Avar King who figured in Fun,p.. had
made the Eulcarians an autonomous peo-
ME and hcnceforth they wer,. r,Ied bv
their own kings. Of whom the succession
was s,bstantially uninterr,pteJ for 20
wears Asn,rnc6 one az I'm, fix. ,ons az
Konyr,. was The first Rnl,aian who
claimed the title of king CONQUERED the
SIovs 81 Lower Mmsia and founded a
kingdom bounded bv the Danube the Eux-
inc the Balkan and Mornyia He finally
tlxed its c,nitaI ~ pres.bIaha the ancient
N,rreonan,lis Their country Raler J.-
scril,as az "a cocE-n;, ,yhcrcon C:r..k
;nn,bt Cr..,,- Th.,. nrossai ~, R,,z,n
fine Fmniro snrelv Njccnho,us IN Tyr
amt f.II L,efnrc The ser,cious Rnlya,iap
KIM CrImn Who early In The ninth cen
tuyy tool, Nis;v,j an, Of ,h, CHIEF .rs..-
mai: or the on,.;r, onJ hoat tho Em,.,,r
Wich.oI Ia ~, the ,,tiS, -,nn,t W..,bo-
dius and his hrn,ber Cvrillns az whom
Mis- Trhv cclehr,t.s ,bn merits turneJ
the Rnlga,ians to Cbristianitv K;py Ro-
,,n,is bay.iny Sent Tor W.tho.i,vs md ,.LIny
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ann =. - sonle'Ines tint Va oi7 .a
Educatiop Was PIiIu a.nois a,eni; M.
among inc bulgarian PRINCES schooeo q.
Cohs.LIliloP,c "aS H.iel' .c e.ono
son oi Doeofis' caiieu ny ms ia'hst VI the
eromh ih piscc VI .is unworthy ptv.NeI
,iauiihii. o'hieon peeah IN 90 ntsn y,
t.ht.y .hihe years, the most Rionous Peit1
Oh bulgarian hisIory. iNc' ne DesieRca
s-i "''u eu nhP
cohditions Oh !ssee ON INC Emperor I'D
mahus J.. besides managing al MnseIo'ih.
ne ook inc nhlein Iue .! hsls,,eus-
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