He also said that the Bulgars ' religion of Islam was undesirable due to its taboo against alcoholic beverages and pork ; Vladimir said on that occasion: " Drinking is the joy of all Rus '.

The son of Igor of Kiev and Olga, Sviatoslav is famous for his incessant campaigns in the east and south, which precipitated the collapse of two great powers of Eastern Europe — Khazaria and the First Bulgarian Empire ; he also conquered numerous East Slavic tribes, defeated the Alans and the Volga Bulgars, and at times was allied with the Pechenegs and Magyars.

The Bulgars ( also Bolgars, Bulghars, Huno-Bulgars ) were a semi-nomadic people who flourished in the Pontic Steppe and the Volga basin in the 7th century.

It is also possible that traces of Avars, Bulgars and the Germanic peoples were present among Carantanians.

Prince Mutimir ( r. 851 – 891 ), the son of Vlastimir, managed to defeat the Bulgars once again in 834 – 835, also capturing the son of the Bulgar Khan.

Zaharija soon resumed his Byzantine alliance, also uniting several Slavic tribes along the common border to revolt against the Bulgars, several Bulgarian generals were beheaded, their heads sent to Constantinople by Zaharija as a symbol of alleigance.

Vlastimir's three sons succeeded in ruling Serbia together, although not for long ; Serbia became a key part in the power struggle between the Byzantines and Bulgars ( in predominantly Byzantine alliance ), which also resulted in major dynastic civil wars for a period of three decades.

Prince Mutimir ( r. 851 – 891 ), the son of Vlastimir, managed to defeat the Bulgars once again in 834 – 835, also capturing the son of the Bulgar Khan.

Around 670 the Bulgars under Kouber and Asparukh, who were also part of their empire, revolted.

Even in the recent past, despite the cultural similarity of the Gagauz to the Bulgars of Bessarabia, there were important differences between them: the Bulgars were peasant farmers ; although the Gagauz also farmed, they were essentially pastoralists in outlook.

A branch of the Bulgars led by khan Kuber, however, settled western Macedonia and eastern Albania around 680 AD and also engaged in attacks on Byzantium together with the Slavs.

Bulgar ( also spelled Bolğar, Bulghar ) is an extinct language which was spoken by the Bulgars.

The language of the Danube Bulgars is also known from a small number of loanwords in the Old Bulgarian language, as well as terms occurring in Bulgar Greek-language inscriptions, contemporary Byzantine texts, and later Slavonic Old Bulgarian texts.

The Bulgars also raided Thrace and the rest of northern Greece in 540 and on repeated other occasions.

The Bulgars ( also Bolgars or proto-Bulgarians ), a people of Central Asia, most believed Turko-Altaian and Indo-Arian.

By the middle of the 9th century, the Bulgars and the Slavs had already to a large extent coalesced to one people — the Bulgarians — through mixed marriages ( even in the royal dynasty, Omurtag was not already married to a Slavic woman but also gave two of his sons Slavic names ) and as a result of the laws of Khan Krum and the abolition of the autonomy of the Slavic tribes undertaken by Omurtag.

The Cumans also convinced the Volga Bulgars and Khazars to join.

It is possible that Gostun is an alternative name of Organa, who according to some Byzantine sources was a regent over the Bulgars until Kubrat's return from Constantinople and was also member of the Ermi clan.

It also associates the Bulgars with what Nurutdinov interprets as references to Troy, Sumer and America.

Khan Kuber ( also Kouver, Kuver or Csaba ) was a Bulgar leader, son of Kubrat and a princess descended from Emperor Honorius brother of Khan Asparukh and member of the Dulo clan, who according to the Miracles of St Demetrius, in the 670s was the leader of a mixed Christian population of Bulgars, ‘ Romans ’, Slavs and Germanic people from Crimea that had been transferred to the Syrmia region in Pannonia by the Avars 60 years earlier.

In alternate Caucasian and Asiatic genealogies Gomer is also ancestor of Bulgars, Tartars, Cossacks, Circassians, Bashkirs, Chuvashes, Khazars, Azerbaijanis, Kazakhs, Turkmen, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Kyrgyz, Turks, Phrygians, Bithynians, Carpathians, and Paphlagonians.

Magog " land of Gog " ( sons were Elichanaf and Lubal )-also Gog, Gogh, Magug, Magogae, Mugogh, Mat Gugi, Gugu, Gyges, Bedwig, Moghef, Magogian, Massagetae, Dacae, Sacae, Scyth, Scythi, Scythia, Scythae, Sythia, Scythes, Skuthai, Skythai, Scythia, Skythia, Scynthia, Scynthius, Sclaveni, Sarmatian, Scoloti, Skodiai, Scotti, Skoloti, Skoth-ai, Skoth, Skuthes, Skuth-a, Askuza, Askuasa, Alani, Alans, Alanic, Ulan, Uhlan also Rasapu, Rashu, Rukhs, Rukhs-As, Rhos, Ros, Rosh, Rox, Roxolani, Rhoxolani, Ruskolan, Rosichi, Rhossi, Rusichi, Rus, Ruska, Rossiya, Russian ( Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians ); also Mas-ar, Mas-gar, Masgar, Mazar, Madj, Madjar, Makr-on, Makar, Makaroi, Merkar, Magor, Magar, Magyar, Mohgur ( Hungarians-also Hungar, Hunugur, Hurri, Gurri, Onogur, Ugor, Ungar, Uhor, Venger ); Siberians, Croats, Serbs, Slovenes, Slovaks, Bulgars, Poles, Czechs, and other related groups );

* Bulgarians, Bulgars, Bulghars, Onogurs, Bolgars, Old Great Bulgaria

Dengizich is believed to have been king ( khan ) of the Kutrigur Bulgars, and Ernakh king ( khan ) of the Utigur Bulgars, whilst Procopius claimed that Kutrigurs and Utigurs were named after, and led by two of the sons of Ernakh.

Indeed, subsequently, new confederations appear such as Kutrigur, Utigur, Onogur / ( Onoghur ), Sarigur, etc., which were collectively called " Huns "," Bulgarian Huns ", or " Bulgars ".

The Lombards were joined by numerous Saxons, Heruls, Gepids, Bulgars, Thuringians, and Ostrogoths, and their invasion of Italy was almost unopposed.

In Vurgundaib, the Lombards were stormed in camp by " Bulgars " ( probably Huns ) and were defeated ; King Agelmund was killed.

The Balkan provinces however were left denuded of troops and were devastated by invasions of Slavs and Bulgars ; to protect Constantinople and its vicinity against them the emperor built the Anastasian Wall, extending from the Propontis to the Euxine.

The Bulgars were governed by hereditary khans.

Bulgars were polytheistic, but chiefly worshiped the supreme deity Tangra.

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 Bulgars were the first to ever defeat the Mongolic horde and protected Europe for decades, but after countless Mongol invasions the Kingdom of the Volga Bulgars was destroyed and most of its citizens slaughtered or sold as slaves in Asia.

Ethnically, the Bulgars were Oghur Turkic, with Scytho-Sarmatian and Sarmatian-Alan elements.

The invasion led to a 3-year war, in which Vlastimir was victorious ; Presian made no territorial gains, was heavily defeated and lost many of his men as the Serbs had a tactival advantage in the hills, the Bulgars were driven out by the army of Vlastimir.

One account by Ahmad ibn Fadlan as part of his account of an embassy to the Volga Bulgars in 921 claims that Norse warriors were sometimes buried with enslaved women with the belief that these women would become their wives in Valhalla.

Numerous 7th-century Bulgar settlements have been excavated across the city and further west ; the Varna lakes north shores, of all regions, were arguably most densely populated by Bulgars.

The migrants who came first were Germanic tribes such as the Goths, Vandals, Angles, Saxons, Lombards, Suebi, Frisii and Franks ; they were later pushed westwards by the Huns, Avars, Slavs, Bulgars and Alans.

The Bulgars ( people of Turkic origin who were present in far eastern Europe since the second century ) conquered the eastern Balkan territory of the Byzantine Empire in the seventh century.

During the early Byzantine – Arab Wars the Arab armies attempted to invade southeast Europe via Asia Minor during the late seventh and early eighth centuries, but were defeated at the siege of Constantinople by the joint forces of Byzantium and the Bulgars.

* Bulgars, ancient people, part of the ancestors of the Bulgarians

His name is mentioned in the excerpt Ziezi ex quo vulgares meaning " Ziezi, of whom the Bulgars " but being regarded by some as the first European reference to the Bulgars as a people.

The term Turkic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of people including existing societies such as the Turkish, Azerbaijani, Chuvashes, Kazakhs, Tatars, Kyrgyz, Turkmens, Uyghurs, Uzbeks, Bashkirs, Qashqai, Gagauzs, Yakuts, Turkic Karaites, Krymchaks, Karakalpaks, Karachays, Balkars, Nogais and as well as past civilizations such as the Göktürks, Kumans, Kipchaks, Avars, Bulgars, Turgeshes, Khazars, Seljuk Turks, Ottoman Turks, Mamluks, Timurids and possibly Huns and the Xiongnu.

* Bulgars, a people of Central Asian origin

In some of those theories the Gagauz people are presented as descendants of the Bulgars or a clan of Seljuk Turks or as linguistically Turkified Bulgarians.

The origins of the Balkar people have not yet been definitively established: various hypotheses have associated them with the Huns, the Khazars, the Bulgars ( most probable theory, as the name Balkar and Bulgar are nearly identical ), the Alans, the Zikhs, the Brukhs, the Kipchaks and Cumans the Vengrians, the Chekhs, the Mongol Tatars, the Crimean Tatars, and Turkicized Japhetic groups.

* Bulgars, an early medieval people of Eastern Europe / Central Asia

Khan Öz Beg urged the Mongol elite to convert to Islam, but at the same time, he preserved the lives of Christians and pagans such as Russians, Circassians, Alans, Bulgars, Finno-Ugric people, Turks and Crimean Greeks as long as they continued to pay the jizyah in subjection to Islamic rule.

His name is mentioned in the excerpt Ziezi ex quo vulgares meaning " Ziezi, of whom the Bulgars " but being regarded by some as the first European reference to the Bulgars as a people.

Since the middle of the 9th century, new invaders, the Bulgars, raided the region of Phocis and sieged Amfissa several times, but the most damaging was in 996, when Samuel of Bulgaria destroyed the town and slaughtered its people.