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This battle was a significant moment in European history, as it led to the creation of a powerful state, which was to become a European medieval great power [8] in the 9th and 10th century along with the Byzantine and Frankish Empires. It became a cultural and spiritual centre of South Slavic Europe through most of the Middle Ages.
The etymology of the ethnonym Bulgar is not completely understood and difficult to trace back earlier than the 4th century AD. [19] [20] Since the work of Tomaschek (1873), [21] it is generally said to be derived from Proto-Turkic root *bulga-[22] ("to stir", "to mix"; "to become mixed"), which with the consonant suffix -r implies a noun meaning "mixed".
The early Bulgars were a warlike people and war was part of their everyday life, with every adult Bulgar obliged to fight. The early Bulgars were exclusively horsemen: in their culture, the horse was considered a sacred animal and received special care. The supreme commander was the khan, who mustered the army with the help of the aristocracy.
[3] [4] Kuber had been made governor of the region by the Avar Khagan. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Kuber's subjects called themselves Sermesianoi , [ 6 ] but the Byzantines referred to them as "Bulgars". [ 7 ] They had preserved their Roman and Christian traditions, even though their ancestors had been taken to the Avar Khaganate some 60 years prior to Kuber's ...
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Bulgarism is an ideology aimed at the "revival of Bulgars' national identity" and Volga Bulgaria statehood. [2] It originated in the second half of 19th century within the Wäisi movement [ 3 ] and the Society for the study of the native land (Chuvashia). [ 4 ]
Alcek or Alzeco was allegedly a son of Kubrat and led the Bulgars to Ravenna that later settled in the villages of Gallo Matese, Sepino, Boiano and Isernia in the Matese mountains of southern Italy. 3 shows the Bulgars of Alzeco moving along Italy. 4 shows the earlier Pannonian Bulgars of Alciocus.
The Bulgars and Byzantine Empire were in an almost constant state of war during the eighth century and into the early ninth. [6] Emperor Constantine V oversaw nine campaigns against the Bulgars between 741 and 775, and Emperor Nikephoros I 's campaign in 811 resulted in the burning of the royal residence in Pliska. [ 7 ]