Message from @KoalaBear
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Rossi meaning red
Rossia
Russia
Okay, Bulgaria
Actually the russians still call themselfs "Rossia"
Bulgar-land
Want the origin of bulgar itself orrr
Nah, I already know.
Let me hear
Migration south of the Danube, fighting the Byzantines n’ shit, getting oppressed by the Ottomans, Independence, Balkan Wars, WWI + WW2, Communist dictatorship then here we are now.
Uh
Heavily generalized.
You didn't explain the origin of the word itself
Oooooooh.
You briefly explained their history
Shit.
ya
I’ll... look it up on my own time.
Anyway, Czechia.
No no I can explain
Actually you can just observe
With the case of slovene "betatism" which happens to shift the letter v into b bulgar becomes logical meaning "vulgar" you might think thats where the term comes from but it's just linguistic coinsidence. Considering the slovenians still use the classic "bolgar" name it's easily recognizable at this point.
Volga-r means "man from the shores of lake Volga"
The turks still call them Bulgaristan
hinting their tartar history
Czechia?
The story of Czech, Lech and Rus
Easy as that
Or in our dialect Čeh means "small naughty, playful boy"
But probably shifted in meaning
Did you knew that the original Philadelphia is in Turkey, it was one of the Biblical Asian Churches.
How come the Unitedstatian one became more famous than it is beyond me.
@KoalaBear Oh you mentioned Sorbs, did you heard of a city with name very similar to Ljubjlana.
Lübeck was originally called Liubice, today it's the Alt-Lübeck part old town.
It was a seat of the Polabian Obotrites.
Here it was even featured in the Polish communist propaganda.
"We aren't here since yesterday, we had reached far to the west."
@National Trotskyist yeah lubice means "lovers"
But liubje is that wooden thing