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Yunus (Yonkovo), Duraç(?), Mumcular (Sveshtari), Köse Abdi (Raynino), Eniceköy(?), Caferler (Sevar), Şeremetköy (Veselets) and Ahmetler(?). Contrary to the claims of the Shkorpil brothers, Miletich and Zenetov, Bobchev did not find people who called themselves Gajal in Deliorman. According to him, the term is clear only to educated Bulgarians who have learned this word from books, but even they do not claim that the local Turks call themselves "Gajal". However, through conversations with the Turkish population of Ludogorie, he learned that this term was used
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Valentin Moshkov, on the other hand, claims that the Deliorman Turks - he admits that Turks of Deliorman call themselves "Turk" and not Gajal because they don't know this word - are descendants of Pechenegs. Zehra Kaderli, a Turkish woman from Ludogorie also says that although she worked in Ludogorie
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In 1906 Stefan Bobchev visited the region to collect information about the Deliorman Turks and about Bulgars' origin. He was accompanied by Matei Stoyanov, Tsonyu Boyadzhiev and Mehmed Sülüş during his trip. He was in these Turkish villages, all in the Ludogorie region: Duştubak (Yasenovets), Abdal
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and collected ethnographic material from local Turks, she never came across Turks who call themselves Gajal. She herself is from the Ludogorie and says that the term is unknown to her family. She is an associate professor at Hacettepe University and has many research on Deliorman Turkish culture.
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was another historian who also supported the Škorpil brothers' theory in his book "The Old Bulgarian Population in Northeastern Bulgaria" published in 1902. Miletich, who had visited the Ludogorie region wrote in his book that:
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in his dictionary (1895-1905) gives meaning to the word gajal "stupid, brutish, predatory". The Turks from Dobruja used the pejrorative "tahta külah" for Turks of Ludogorie. Bulgarians in
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language is spoken by the Gajals. The total number of Gajals is about 300,000 people, including about 20,000 native speakers. They are believed to be descendants of
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faith living in the east of the Balkans and Turkey. The main areas of settlement of the Gajals are located in the extreme northeast of the Republic of Bulgaria at
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344: 240: 773: 588:- two cities where many Turks live - used the word Gajal as an insult to Turkish villagers. Bobchev found that the term was familiar even in 813: 392: 149: 52: 808: 545:, local Christians believed that Ali was related to the Christian Elijah, which is not true), drink and don't hide their faces" 87: 596:- in the first city it was again used contemptuously for Turkish peasants, and in the second it was used for Turks with big 357:
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130: 493:'s dictionary Lehçe-i Osmani written in 1873–1876. According to him, Gajal was a word used to describe gypsies of 102: 76: 431: 352: 248: 519:- the Gajals, and perhaps the Christian Gagauz in Eastern Bulgaria are the remnants of non-Slavic Bulgarians." 373: 269: 700: 109: 803: 721: 217: 501:. In fact, his dictionary is the only Turkish dictionary which mentions this word. The Škorpil brothers - 180: 83: 38: 601: 589: 458: 482: 116: 486: 98: 473:, leading to claims that the Gagauz are the Christian part, while the Gajal are the Muslim part. 422: 502: 722:"Български Националистически Форум - Стефан Бобчев - За Делиорманските турци и за къзълбашите" 616:." Although the Deliorman Turks did claim to be autochthonous, they also claimed to came from 548: 490: 348: 244: 593: 585: 506: 442: 414: 511:
In our research we paid attention to the questions - what happened to the first non-Slavic
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Soon their theory became very popular and was accepted by a number of historians, such as
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published in 1898 "The Yearbook of the Varna State High School", where they had written: "
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His other claims were that the Deliorman Turks have a different language and dialect.
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