Picture 1: Sample illustration in the text above.
Photometric series of Bulgarian types by geography location — clockwise, Tarnovo group (brachycephalic); Thracian group (dolichocephalic); Sofia group (mesocephalic); and, Ohrid group (hyperbrachycephalic).
Cant really find much but came across this:While browsing our personal archive on Dr. Vatev we found some inconsistencies that deserve commentary. Originally it appeared that military officials were against bodily measurements performed in the Bulgarian Army — ostensibly, that would resolve on tactical power of the enemy. But three years later in 1901, Dr. Vatev got permit from the Statistical Directorate that was gathering nationwide data including on military recruits. Thus his sub-sample increased with 31,469 soldiers interviewed at army admission plus data on 5,024 junkers at High Military School. Courtesy to the Russian statistician I. V. Jurkevich, who worked in Bulgaria for 20 years after the Liberation, military data was incorporated in the whole analysis as sub-group 20-25 years old. This didn't brought substantial change in overall results which significantly fall bellow the 30% barrier. On the other hand the methodology of the investigation revealed some misnomers that gave relative "bias" to the final results. Virchow's correspondence table divided the traits (hair, skin and colour of eyes) accordingly in 11 separate groups. While in Germany yellow hair, white skin and blue eyes matched perfectly to a uniform "blond" type, the case in Bulgaria varied with some extremes. For instance, people with black hair, white skin and grey eyes were classified as "dark". Those non-Aryans that match roughly to the Europoid "brunet" type comprised some 34% of the whole Bulgarian population (2nd + 3rd type in Virchow's correspondence table). Eventually, Frenchness not Germanness was characteristic feature for the Bulgar nation; even at that early phase the hidden Mediterranean component in Eastern Balkans was evident from anthropological surveys.
Common denominator for good anthropometry research was the use of photography. The photographic method in craniology was used by Dr. Vatev as early as year 1907. We still consider his monograph "Foreign Literature on the Anthropology of Bulgarians. Sofia, 1909" as the most important publication in the field. Despite the fact that later in the 1930s he expanded the survey with new material (photometric series of Bulgarian types by geography location, plus, anthropology map of nationwide "cephalic index") — viz., the early endeavors of this really towering physician deserve admiration, ditto.
Supplement: Anthropology map of Bulgaria based on nationwide "cephalic index" — originally was followed the administrative division of the country from 1901 but subsequently four typological districts were formed, 1) South Bulgaria, the Thracian group, dolichocephalic 76,29 to 77,97; 2) South-West Bulgaria, the Sofia group, mesocephalic 78,37 to 79,75; 3) North Bulgaria, the Tarnovo group, brachycephalic 79,90 to 81,77; and, 4) West Macedonia, the Ohrid group which is partially given here with Kystendil, Dupnitza and Samokov, hyperbrachycephalic 81,94 to 85,20
Thus within the Bulgarian people there is a strong tendency toward dolichocephaly, strong enough to impress mesocephaly upon the nation as a whole. The strongest expression of this tendency is found in the southern part of the kingdom, and beyond Bulgarian territory proper. True brachycephaly are found only among the Macedonian Bulgars who live in close contact with Albanians.
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Cant really find much but came across this:While browsing our personal archive on Dr. Vatev we found some inconsistencies that deserve commentary. Originally it appeared that military officials were against bodily measurements performed in the Bulgarian Army — ostensibly, that would resolve on tactical power of the enemy. But three years later in 1901, Dr. Vatev got permit from the Statistical Directorate that was gathering nationwide data including on military recruits. Thus his sub-sample increased with 31,469 soldiers interviewed at army admission plus data on 5,024 junkers at High Military School. Courtesy to the Russian statistician I. V. Jurkevich, who worked in Bulgaria for 20 years after the Liberation, military data was incorporated in the whole analysis as sub-group 20-25 years old. This didn't brought substantial change in overall results which significantly fall bellow the 30% barrier. On the other hand the methodology of the investigation revealed some misnomers that gave relative "bias" to the final results. Virchow's correspondence table divided the traits (hair, skin and colour of eyes) accordingly in 11 separate groups. While in Germany yellow hair, white skin and blue eyes matched perfectly to a uniform "blond" type, the case in Bulgaria varied with some extremes. For instance, people with black hair, white skin and grey eyes were classified as "dark". Those non-Aryans that match roughly to the Europoid "brunet" type comprised some 34% of the whole Bulgarian population (2nd + 3rd type in Virchow's correspondence table). Eventually, Frenchness not Germanness was characteristic feature for the Bulgar nation; even at that early phase the hidden Mediterranean component in Eastern Balkans was evident from anthropological surveys.
Common denominator for good anthropometry research was the use of photography. The photographic method in craniology was used by Dr. Vatev as early as year 1907. We still consider his monograph "Foreign Literature on the Anthropology of Bulgarians. Sofia, 1909" as the most important publication in the field. Despite the fact that later in the 1930s he expanded the survey with new material (photometric series of Bulgarian types by geography location, plus, anthropology map of nationwide "cephalic index") — viz., the early endeavors of this really towering physician deserve admiration, ditto.
Supplement: Anthropology map of Bulgaria based on nationwide "cephalic index" — originally was followed the administrative division of the country from 1901 but subsequently four typological districts were formed, 1) South Bulgaria, the Thracian group, dolichocephalic 76,29 to 77,97; 2) South-West Bulgaria, the Sofia group, mesocephalic 78,37 to 79,75; 3) North Bulgaria, the Tarnovo group, brachycephalic 79,90 to 81,77; and, 4) West Macedonia, the Ohrid group which is partially given here with Kystendil, Dupnitza and Samokov, hyperbrachycephalic 81,94 to 85,20
Thus within the Bulgarian people there is a strong tendency toward dolichocephaly, strong enough to impress mesocephaly upon the nation as a whole. The strongest expression of this tendency is found in the southern part of the kingdom, and beyond Bulgarian territory proper. True brachycephaly are found only among the Macedonian Bulgars who live in close contact with Albanians.
http://berberian11.tripod.com/vatev_race.htm
