Още едно тълкуване на
етнонима(?)ахряни...
и да бъда солидарен с тебе
-на английски.
"....Pomak was not the only, and not even the main, designation.
More common as an outside designation
was the term akhryani.
Its etymology is deduced from either the Greek for worthless, awkward,
rough, wicked, or else a bastardized version of Agarenes,
descendants
of Hagar, a common pejorative for the Muslims in the Middle
Ages, but reserved for the Bulgarian Muslims
in the later period.
In the case of the Greek etymology, an interesting attempt has been
made to stress its ancient origins, pointing not
at an ethnic but at a
socioeconomic antagonism:
the binary opposition mountain/valley
paralleling the ancient opposition
barbarity/civilization.28
The term Bulgaro-Mohammedans is a literary appellative...."