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The Byzantine Empire is not labeled. OlYeller 03:36, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but the ethnicity of the people living in the northern part (north of the Lower Danube) of what is represented on this map as "bulgars" has nothing to do with the ethnicity of the turkic bulgars, nor with that of the slavs represented further on in the north. i am speaking of the territory which is now known as the Muntenian plain, belonging to Romania, and to the Romanian people who are very much indo-european (northern Thracian tribes + Roman Empire veterans & colonists, actually). please revise. i suggest using the historical name Wallachs, as that is the name used in contemporary chronicles to designate and distinguish Latin people, living in that above-mentioned area, from the Slavs or the Turkic migrators. please revise, or i shall have to do it myself. in which case, i shall be very tempted to wipe significant amounts off of what the map currently shows as "bulgars" territory even from today's Bulgaria, and write Slavs instead, seeing that the language spoken in Bulgaria is (and has been before, and during the First Bulgarian Empire) quite Slavic (Bulgarian), and also seeing that the number in which the bulgars migrated to Europe was very poor in comparison with the already settled indo-european people that lived there long ago.  :) IleanaCosanziana 02:01, 27 February 2007 (UTC)