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Bolghars and Turks are both Turkic peoples who migrated into the Balkans and formed their own powerful empires in the area. Why did the Bolghars totally assimilate into modern-day Bulgarians while Turks retained much of their own culture and identity?

by /u/megami-hime in /r/AskHistorians

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