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Excavations showed that Bulgars buried their dead on a north–south axis, [169] with their heads to the north so that the deceased "faced" south. [152] The Slavs practiced only cremation, the remains were placed in urns, and like the Bulgars, with the conversion to Christianity inhumed the dead on west–east axis. [170]
[29] [67] [68] Other examples of tribal migrations from the north to south are ethnonyms of Dulebes, Dregoviches, Severians, Obotrites, Glomatians and Milceni. [69] [70] [71] According to Procopius, Slavic social and political organization was a kind of demokratia in which a council of nobles ruled the tribal community.
The kingdom never survived Kubrat's death. After several wars with the Khazars, the Bulgars were finally defeated and they migrated to the south, to the north, and mainly to the west into the Balkans, where most of the other Bulgar tribes were living, in a state vassal to the Byzantine Empire since the 5th century.
The Volga trade route was established by the Varangians who settled in Northwestern Russia in the early 9th century. About 10 km (6 mi) south of the Volkhov River entry into Lake Ladoga, they established a settlement called Ladoga (Old Norse: Aldeigjuborg). [7]
The Bulgars settled mainly in the north-east, establishing the capital at Pliska, which was initially a colossal encampment of 23 km 2 protected with earthen ramparts. [61] [51] Part of the Pliska fortress. To the north-east the war with the Khazars persisted and in 700 Khan Asparuh perished in battle with them.
The Bulgars had occupied the fertile plains of Ukraine for several centuries until the Khazars swept in to their confederation in the 660s and triggered their further migration. One part of them — under the leadership of Asparuh — headed southwest and settled in the 670s in present-day Bessarabia .
After his death and military defeat, many Bulgars move west into the Balkans. 681-1018 - First Bulgarian Empire. Bulgaria becomes an important regional power. ... but reject Romania and Bulgaria ...
The Sermesianoi or, alternatively, Keramisians were a group of 70,000 Bulgars, Pannonian Avars and Byzantine Christians from Syrmia. They fled in Byzantine region of Macedonia , following a successful revolt against the Avar Khaganate led by the Bulgar noble Kuber , around the year 680.