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The migration of the Bulgars after the fall of Old Great Bulgaria in the 7th century. The Turk rule weakened sometime after 600, allowing the Avars to reestablish the control over the region. [ 25 ] [ 76 ] As the Western Turkic Khaganate declined, finally collapsing in the middle of the 7th century, it was against Avar rule that the Bulgars ...
The earliest evidence of hominid occupation discovered in what is today Bulgaria date from at least 1.4 million years ago. [1] Around 5000 BC, a sophisticated civilization already existed which produced some of the first pottery, jewellery and golden artifacts in the world. After 3500 BC, the Thracians appeared on the Balkan Peninsula. [2]
However, Bulgars in Idel-Ural eventually gave birth to Chuvash people. Unlike Danube Bulgars, Volga Bulgars did not adopt any language. The Chuvash language today is the only Oghuric language that survived and it is the sole living representative of the Volga Bulgar language. [17] [18] [19] [20]
[49] [52] The Bulgars advanced south, crossed the Balkan Mountains and invaded Thrace. [53] In 681, the Byzantines were compelled to sign a humiliating peace treaty, forcing them to acknowledge Bulgaria as an independent state, to cede the territories to the north of the Balkan Mountains and to pay an annual tribute.
The Batu hordes conquered the Volga Bulgars in what is today Tatarstan and Kypchaks in what is now Southern Russia, following the westward sweep of the Mongols in the 13th century. Other Bulgars settled in Europe in the seventh and eighth centuries, but were assimilated by the Slavs, giving the name to the Bulgarians and the Slavic Bulgarian ...
A devastating home fire in South Bend, Indiana, resulted in the death of five children, the South Bend Fire Department said Jan. 22. Firefighters responded to a residential fire call in the ...
Kuber's subjects called themselves Sermesianoi, [19] but the Byzantines regarded them as "Bulgars". [20] They preserved their Christian traditions, although their ancestors had been taken to the Avar Khaganate about 60 years before Kuber's appointment. [6] The Sermesianoi did not cease to dream of their return to their ancestors' homes. [6]
The Hughes Fire that started Wednesday and continued to burn Thursday is the latest in a series of disastrous blazes that have broken out in southern California since Jan. 7.