Alec Deleff Notes
Contents Page 1 Deleff Family Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Deleff History 4 Page 6 Dimo Deleff O’Doria Porfoun Page 7 5 Odorka Porfoun Page 8 5 Porfouns 5 Info From Alexander Deleff Page 1 Deleff Family Link goes back to 680 A.D. when Bulgar Nomads occupied area south of Lower Danube, not far from where it flows into the Black Sea. They took their name Bulgarians from the Turco-Tatar conquerors who invaded the Balkans in the 7th Century A.D. but as they formed a small portion of a larger population of Slavic already established there, they were soon absorbed by the larger group. However, their language took on some distinct features and later became called Old Church Slavonic – The liturgical written language of the Eastern Orthodox Church. There followed several centuries of peace and war and uneasy alliances with the Christian Byzantine Empire Page 2 based at Constantinople. Finally about 1350 the first Bulgarian Empire – along with the rest...