origin and their village had been founded almost a century ago by their fathers ... The residents of that village are Christians, Eastern Orthodox."

According to the third theory held by the Turkish author Necip Asım and Bulgarian authors the Karamanlides may be descendants of exiled Slavic-speaking Bulgarians after the conquest of the First Bulgarian Empire by the Byzantine Empire, who were concentrated around the mountain with the survived name Bulgar Dagh. This event was mentioned by the Armenian historian Aristakes Lastivertsi in 1072, who described the event as a disaster and horror for the places where Bulgarians passed. The territory was conquered by the Seljuk Turks first during the Battle of Manzikert. The author Necip Asım provided more than 150 historical accounts (written as late as 1517) literallyspeaking of Bulgarian Asker, Eller, Beylers, Beys, their rulers Yahsha Khan, Aydin Bey, Vizier Assen and Queen Catherine, who were Christian allies or vassals of the Karamanids or Seljuks.

According to Hodja Dehani, when the ancestors of the Karamans came to Asia Minor from Shirvan and settled in the southern part of the peninsula around 1217-1228 AD, they found the Bulgarians in and around the Bulgarian Mountains and even for a year they fought with them. After that, the Karamans and Bulgarians joined as allies, and perhaps also enter in vassal relations and carried out joint military activities continuously from the 13th century until the first quarter of the XVI century. Nearly a century ago, the Asia Minor Bulgarians claimed that the Karamanlides were Turkified Bulgarians.

Necip Asım provides the