The Croats are a Balkanic people with a Slavic language. The issue of their
origin has been subject to hard debates, but their roots are still "officially"
not known. This book offers a new theory, well established in contrary to the
others (the Iranic, Germanic, Slavic and Avaro-Bulgaric theories), about who the
first Croats were, by explaining how a Turkic tribe disappeared in the north of
the Caucasus and appeared in the south of Poland, and then migrated to Dalmatia
to start the process of making of the Croatian nation. This study includes also
many new ideas about Proto-Hungarian, Proto-Bulgarian, Proto-Serbian, as well as
Bosnian and Khazarian histories.
Osman Karatay is one of the leading Balkanologs of Turkey, as well as a
prominent Medieval historian, whose published books are: Ba'de Harab'il Bosna
"After the Destruction of Bosnia" (Istanbul, 1997); Kosova Kanli Ova "Kosovo the
Bloody Plain" (Istanbul, 1998); Balkanlarin Gulen Cehresi "The Smiling Face of
the Balkans" (Ankara, 1999); Hirvat Ulusunun Olusumu. Erken Ortacag'da Turk-Hirvat
Iliskileri "The Making of the Croatian Nation. Turko-Croatian Relations in the
Early Medieval" (Ankara, 2000); et al (editor), The Turks, 6 volumes (Ankara,
2002); translation from Peter B. Golden, Turk Halklari Tarihine Giris "An
Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples" (Ankara, 2002); Bosna-Hersek
Baris Sureci "The Peace Process in Bosnia-Herzegovina" (Ankara, 2002); Iran ile
Turan: Hayali Milletler Caginda Avrasya ve Ortadogu "Iran and Turan: Eurasia and
the Middle East in the Age of Imaginary Nations" (Ankara, 2003); In Search of
the Lost Tribe. The Origins and Making of the Croatian Nation (Corum, 2003).
CONTENTS:
Foreword 1
Introduction 3
The Iranic, Germanic and Slavic Theories 9
Bulgaric, Oghuric and Other Origins of the Actors 19
Post Hunnic Spectacle of Eastern Europe 31
The Age of Avar Supremacy in teh Western Steppes 40
The Yeras of Constant Rebellion Against the Avras 54
The Coming of Croats to Balkans 65
Who were the First Croats 80
The desertion of Khuber Khan and Roots of Serbian State 97
Origins off Bosnian State anf the Royal Kotroman Family 111
Conclusion 143
Literature 149
