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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IvaPan, post: 9498575, member: 78949&quot;]True, Ruth, the idea is the same only the means of its manifestation are different matching the local circumstances. In our part of the world there is no coral to be found around and it had to be imported, and thus it would have been too expensive for most people to use it as protection or amulet. So people adjusted to the circumstances.</p><p><br /></p><p>The blue bead and the Ottoman coin migrated from Turkey/Ottoman Empire, as both Greece and Bulgaria were its colonies for hundreds of years (450 for Greece and 500 for Bulgaria) and thus accepted many habits from the Ottomans.</p><p>Although Greeks might not admit it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> but this is the historical truth, like it or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only exception is the religion - after some forcible conversion to Islam in the initial years of conquest (around years 1400-1450) for the rest of the period Bulgarians (and Greeks, and Serbians, and Macedonians, and all the rest in the empire) were left to practice Christianity. It was done for a very practical reason - in the Ottoman Empire only non Muslims paid taxes, so the state had every interest to have as many non-Muslims as possible in order to collect more taxes <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> Money, money...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are also many other similarities common for the entire Balkans. I mean that these 400-500 years of being colonised cannot pass by without significant traces in the language, culture, habits and cuisine (BGs, Greeks, Macedonians, Serbians, etc., have a lot of same or similar dishes with the Turks in our traditional cuisine).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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