Old Great Bulgaria
Old Great Bulgaria | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 632[1]–668 | |||||||
 Old Great Bulgaria | |||||||
| Common languages | Bulgar | ||||||
| Religion | Tengrism | ||||||
| Demonym(s) | Bulgar | ||||||
| Government | Absolute monarchy | ||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||
• Established | 632[1] | ||||||
• Disestablished | 668 | ||||||
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Old Great Bulgaria was a 7th-century nomadic empire. It was created by the Onogur Bulgars on the western Pontic–Caspian steppe (what is now southern Ukraine and southwest Russia).[2]
History[change | change source]
In the early 7th century, Khan Kubrat united the Onogur Bulgars and other Turkic tribes.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250, Florin Curta, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 0521815398, p. 78.
- ↑ Leif Inge Ree Petersen (2013). Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States (400-800 AD. p. 112.
