Volzhskaya Bolgariya The word Bolgar or Bulgar, on ancient turkic means "rebelled". Some tribes referred to this name which have appeared on the territory of modern Qazaqstan approximately in the fourth century AD Firstly these turkic-speaking tribes were under the protectorate of the Huns (Xiongnu) . But with time the ugrians and bulgars have left their ancient dwellings near the river Volga and Ural mountains & have taken the coasts of the Azov & Black Seas and Tavrida. In the end of 5th century they already occupied lands from borders of the Byzantium empire in a lower reaches of Dunay up to Volga and foothills of Caucasus. The danger for bulgars has come from the east. Turks moving from Altai mountains have conquered a lot of tribes, have found a powerful state-Khaganate and finally have conquered some bulgar tribes in the northern Caucasus. While doing so the conquerors have displaced the avars, all these circumstances gave a chance to khazars and to bolgar-annaguns to amplify on these territories, who lived on east of Azov Sea. In the 7th century the bulgarian lord Kubrat have found his own state, The Great Bolgariya, territory was spreaded from Kuban to Dnepr. In 665 Kubrat dies. His sons didn't listen to fathers wise advice & have separated from each other. The eldest one namely Vatvay stayed on coasts of Don, second son Kotrak have passed the Don and went to avars in Panonia, the 5th went to Italy, the 3rd one stayed between Dnepr and Dunay rivers, but in 679 by ...

• published: 20 May 2007
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• author: debashir