Anthropological view of Bulgarians

Parts of Dimitar Sasalov's book
"The Unchangeble Anthropological View of the Bulgarians", 1935

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... From the scale of d-r K.Dornchilov(tabl.1) upon body sizes of 175,437 recruit soldiers we can make two main suggesions:

1. Bulgarians belong to the middle heigh type with inclination to higher, cause the percent of hight people is bigger than the lower and cause we must take attention on the fact the researches are made through young people which got some more years to grow.

2. Тhe variation order show correct distribution of the people in heigh, which talks for racial balance in this sign.


Table 2 contents D-r Peter Ganev's researches dedicated to the size and form of head, scull and face:

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Variation orders about width of scull, height of face and indexes of face, show correct distribution of the individs and talk for balance.

Variation coefficients for all researches show dalance, coefficients for width of scull, for width of face and index of scull at Macedonian Bulgarians show almost the same balance of this signs.

Аccording to the famoust table of Denicker the Bulgarians are apportioned at this way(Tabl.3):

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1. Dolichokephal - 6.7%

2. Mesokephal - 37.8%

3. Brachikephal - 37.7 %

4. Hyperbrachikephal - 17.8 %

By percent apportion in these 4 groups we see, that in parallel with the numerois peoples, Bulgarians are more balanced at this sign.


Pigmentation

Table 4

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The hair color is dedicated to nine types:

1. White-Blond; 2. Yellow-Blond; 3.Dark-Blond; 4. Brown; 5. Dark-Brown; 6. Black ; 7. Red-blond; 8. Red-Brown; 9. Fox-Red. Table 4 shows this types through the Bulgarians.This table also contents the eye colors. They are also 9 types:

1. Blue; 2. Grey; 3. Blue with Orange cyrcle; 4. Blue with Brown cyrcle; 5. Green; 6. Gold-Brown; 7. Brown; 8. Dark Brown; 9. Black.

Researches show, that Bulgarians with Brown hair are about 80% of the population, there's also near 20% Blond haired.

Eye color - there are two maximums, the bigger belongs to the Brown eyed, the other big group are the Blue eyed people.

The pigmentation researches are made among 5494 Bulgarians from Bulgaria and 3031 Bulgarians from FYROM.



Blood Groups

Table 5

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From the data about apportionment by Blood groups among Bulgarians and other peoples, we could make these suggestions:

* Bulgarians belong to the middle European type Hirschfeld.

* Between the people form different Bulgarian regions there's аn unimportant difference in the correlations of Blood groups and the Hirschfeld index. In comprasion to Russians, Germans and other big nations, the balance of the Bulgarians makes a big impression.

* The correlation of blood groups and index of Bulgarians is slightly different of all Slavic peoples.

* Bulgarians, Danian people, Finns, Germans from Schlesvig-Holstein and Hungarians got big similarity in the correlation of Blood groups and the index.

* The FYROMIANS got different proportion from the Serbs and other Slavs, but are indentical to the Bulgarian ones.

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For people who understand form anthropology this facts talk enough.

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If we make review of all resutls of bone system, pigmentation and Blood groups of Bulgarians we can make these general conclusions:

* The Bulgarians from the Republic and from FYROM are one and the same.

* Variation curve of these researches show that people from different regions of Bulgaria got the same character.

* In any racial signs the Bulgarians are not similar to the South Slavs or Slavs at all.

* In hair and eye pigmentation Bulgarians are very еqual, more equal from French or German people, for example.

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The Blood groups are important cause it's well know that there's a generical character in it.

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All facts show that the Bulgarian nation is not mixed people.


Author: Dimitar Sasalov

Blood Groups are a completely useless & obsolete method, that was used in the early days of genetic and physical anthropology.

 

Physical anthropology is still used today, but as far as Genetic Anthropology goes, today we use Y Chromosomes, mtDNA and Automsomal which is far more accurate. The qaulity of Science however is mainly up to I hate to say, on  who's doing the research.  To much politics and agendas are found within science and the world of acedemia , always was though.

 

However its important to use as much modern and up-date objective material as possible.