Little is known about the origins of the Bulgars that reached the Balkan peninsula in the 7th century AD (according to some sources even earlier) because during the ages the original Bulgars melted into the local population of what is nowadays Bulgaria.
One theory is that the Bulgars originated in central Asia but their origin is not entirely clear. The established theory is that the Bulgars are related to the Huns. Clues for this can be found in the advanced calendar and system of government of the early Bulgars.
However more recent studies in genetics have tried to show that the Bulgars were not directly linked to the Huns and the Bulgars originated from what is nowadays Eastern Ukraine. It is possible that Bulgarian rulers employed Huns and had close cultural relations with them but were very ethnically different.
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