Old Great Bulgaria

632–668 nomadic empire in Eastern Europe

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]

Old Great Bulgaria
632[1]–668
  Old Great Bulgaria
Common languagesBulgar
Religion
Tengrism
Demonym(s)Bulgar
GovernmentAbsolute monarchy
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• Established
632[1]
• Disestablished
668
Succeeded by
First Bulgarian Empire

History change

In the early 7th century, Khan Kubrat united the Onogur Bulgars and other Turkic tribes.

References change

  1. Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250, Florin Curta, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 0521815398, p. 78.
  2. Leif Inge Ree Petersen (2013). Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States (400-800 AD. p. 112.