r/AmazighPeople

Hello, guys! I am a Bulgarian who studies Bulgarian culture pretty extensively. While researching some of our traditional clothing in depth, I accidentally fell into this strange rabbit hole of people claiming that, somehow, the Bulgarians and the Imazighen are related OR that the Imazighen somehow come from Bulgarians (possibly because of some Kabyle/village of Kabile, Bulgaria, connection). Now, this is obviously not grounded at all in history and I don’t believe in it (LMAO). However, I am extremely interested in what the proponents of this theory believe and why out of all peoples in the world the Imazighen would even be related to the Bulgarians in the Balkans. And I’m also curious about how prevalent this line of thinking is.

I’m asking specifically because I couldn’t translate many of these “””theories””” from Arabic and I don’t want to use AI or something to translate them; I did see something vague about Bulgarian dress, but I’ve always thought that if jt had to be compared to any Middle Eastern dress, the closest equivalent would actually be in the Levant, generally. Anyways, I find this idea quite frankly hilarious and I’m asking this in good faith. Anyways, wishing you all the best, your cultures are really cool and I don’t understand the revisionism coming from some people.