For the children's book and television character, see Great Uncle Bulgaria.
Not to be confused with First Bulgarian Empire.
"Great Bulgaria" redirects here. Not to be confused with Bulgarian irredentism.
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Old Great Bulgaria
632[1]–668
Monogram of bulgar khan Kubrat
Old Great Bulgaria
Capital
Phanagoria (632–665)
Common languages
Bulgar
Religion
Tengrism[2] Christianity [3][4]
Demonym(s)
Bulgar
Government
Absolute monarchy
Khan
• 632–665
Kubrat
• 665–668
Batbayan
Historical era
Middle Ages
• Kubrat inherits the throne
632[1]
• Batbayan inherits the throne
665
• Old Great Bulgaria is conquered by the Khazars
668
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Onogurs
Kazarig
Avar Khaganate
First Bulgarian Empire
Volga Bulgaria
Khazar Khaganate
Today part of
Russia Ukraine
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] Great Bulgaria was originally centered between the Dniester and lower Volga.
The original capital was Phanagoria[8] on the Taman Peninsula between the Black and Azov seas. In the mid-7th century, Great Bulgaria expanded west to include Avar territory and was centered on Poltava. During the late 7th century, however, an Avar-Slavic alliance in the west, and Khazars in the east, defeated the Bulgars, and Great Bulgaria disintegrated. Successor states are the First Bulgarian Empire and Volga Bulgaria.
^Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250, Florin Curta, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 0521815398, p. 78.
^John of Nikiû, Chronicle
^Golden 1992, p. 245.
^Golden 2011, p. 145.
^Fiedler 2008, p. 152.
^(Agathias, Priscus, Zacharias Rhetor, and Pseudo-Zecharias Rhetor[clarification needed])
^Leif Inge Ree Petersen (2013). Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States (400-800 AD. p. 112.
^Theophanes, Op. cit., p. 356-357
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