[gothic-l] Re: Crimean Goths ? Where did they up at last ?

[ahmetsahinn at YAHOO.COM]

As far as I know from the ottaman archieves that the crimean gots who
are called by turks as "pomaks" adopted islamic religion under the
ottaman rule and migrated to southern Bulgaria(around 50.000 people
today.) There they adopted bulgarian(slavic) language. They live in a
very closed community and hardly marry outside. They are very
religious and conservative and dont associate themselves with the
bulgarians.They have closer contacts with the Turks. They are
distinguished by blond hairs almost half of them have. Some of them
immigrated to Turkey escaping the communist rule.


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