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Old Great Bulgaria | |||||||||||||||||
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| 632[1]–668 | |||||||||||||||||
 Monogram of bulgar khan Kubrat
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 Old Great Bulgaria | |||||||||||||||||
| Capital | Phanagoria (632–665) | ||||||||||||||||
| Common languages | Bulgar | ||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Tengrism[2] Christianity [3][4] | ||||||||||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Bulgar | ||||||||||||||||
| Government | Absolute monarchy | ||||||||||||||||
| Khan | |||||||||||||||||
• 632–665 | Kubrat | ||||||||||||||||
• 665–668 | Batbayan | ||||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||||||||
• Kubrat inherits the throne | 632[1] | ||||||||||||||||
• Batbayan inherits the throne | 665 | ||||||||||||||||
• Old Great Bulgaria is conquered by the Khazars | 668 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Russia Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||
Old Great Bulgaria (Medieval Greek: Παλαιά Μεγάλη Βουλγαρία, Palaiá Megálē Voulgaría), also often known by the Latin names Magna Bulgaria[5] and Patria Onoguria ("Onogur land"),[6] was a 7th-century Turkic nomadic empire formed by the Onogur-Bulgars on the western Pontic–Caspian steppe (modern southern Ukraine and southwest Russia).[7] Great Bulgaria was originally centered between the Dniester and lower Volga.
The original capital was Phanagoria[8] on the Taman Peninsula between the Black and Azov seas. In the mid-7th century, Great Bulgaria expanded west to include Avar territory and was centered on Poltava. During the late 7th century, however, an Avar-Slavic alliance in the west, and Khazars in the east, defeated the Bulgars, and Great Bulgaria disintegrated. Successor states are the First Bulgarian Empire and Volga Bulgaria.
- ^ Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250, Florin Curta, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 0521815398, p. 78.
- ^ John of Nikiû, Chronicle
- ^ Golden 1992, p. 245.
- ^ Golden 2011, p. 145.
- ^ Fiedler 2008, p. 152.
- ^ (Agathias, Priscus, Zacharias Rhetor, and Pseudo-Zecharias Rhetor[clarification needed])
- ^ Leif Inge Ree Petersen (2013). Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States (400-800 AD. p. 112.
- ^ Theophanes, Op. cit., p. 356-357