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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]
Between 630 and 635 Khan Kubrat of the Dulo clan managed to unite the main Bulgar tribes and to declare independence from the Avars, creating a powerful confederation called Old Great Bulgaria, also known as Patria Onoguria, between the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Caucasus.
The new territory of Bulgaria was limited between the Danube and the Stara Planina range, with its seat at the old Bulgarian capital of Veliko Turnovo and including Sofia. This revision left large populations of ethnic Bulgarians outside the new country and defined Bulgaria's militaristic approach to foreign affairs and its participation in ...
632 - Khan Kubrat unites the three largest Bulgar tribes, forming Old Great Bulgaria in what is now southern Ukraine and southern Russia. After his death and military defeat, many Bulgars move ...
In the 1912–1913 Balkan Wars, Bulgaria initially formed an alliance with Greece, Serbia and Montenegro against the Ottoman Empire, and together they conquered a great deal of Ottoman territory. Bulgaria, however, unhappy with the resulting division of territory, soon went to war against its former allies Serbia and Greece and lost territory ...
Matrilineal great-great-grandson of Samuel [51] and son of the anti-Byzantine Serbian ruler Mihailo I. [52] Invited by Bulgarian nobles and acclaimed Bulgarian emperor [4] during Georgi Voyteh's uprising against the Byzantine Empire. [52] The uprising was defeated after a few months and Bodin was in Byzantine captivity until 1078. [53]
Kubrat (Greek: Κροβατον, Kούβρατος; Bulgarian: Кубрат) was the ruler of the Onogur–Bulgars, credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in ca. 632. [2] His name derived from the Turkic words qobrat — "to gather", or qurt, i.e. "wolf".
[83] [25] [76] [84] He founded the Old Great Bulgaria (Magna Bulgaria [85]), also known as Onoğundur–Bulğars state, or Patria Onoguria in the Ravenna Cosmography. [86] [76] [36] Little is known about Kubrat's activities. It is considered that Onogur Bulgars remained the only steppe tribes in good relations with the Byzantines. [85]