The Croats are a Balkanic people with a Slavic language.
The issue of their origin has been subject to hard debates but their roots are still "officially" not known. This book offers
a new theory well established in contrary to the others (the Iranic Germanic Slavic and Avaro-Bulgaric theories) about who the first Croats were by explaining how a Turkic tribe disappeared in the north of the Caucasus and appeared in the south of Poland and then migrated to Dalmatia to start the process of making of the Croatian nation. This study includes also many new ideas about Proto-Hungarian Proto-Bulgarian Proto-Serbian as well as Bosnian and Khazarian histories.

Osman Karatay is one of the leading Balkanologs of Turkey as well as a prominent Medieval historian whose published books
are: Ba'de Harab'il Bosna "After the Destruction of Bosnia" (Istanbul 1997); Kosova Kanli Ova "Kosovo the Bloody Plain" (Istanbul 1998); Balkanlarin Gulen Cehresi "The Smiling Face of the Balkans" (Ankara 1999); Hirvat Ulusunun Olusumu. Erken Ortacag'da Turk-Hirvat Iliskileri "The Making of the Croatian Nation. Turko-Croatian Relations in the
Early Medieval" (Ankara 2000); et al (editor) The Turks 6 volumes (Ankara 2002); translation from Peter B. Golden Turk Halklari Tarihine Giris "An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples" (Ankara 2002); Bosna-Hersek Baris Sureci "The Peace Process in Bosnia-Herzegovina" (Ankara 2002); Iran ile Turan: Hayali Milletler Caginda Avrasya ve Ortadogu "Iran and Turan: Eurasia and the Middle East in the Age of Imaginary Nations" (Ankara 2003); In Search of the Lost Tribe. The Origins and Making of the Croatian Nation (Corum 2003).