Old Great Bulgaria - Establishment

Establishment

Between 630 and 635, Khan Kubrat managed to unite the two main Bulgar tribes of Kutrigur and Utigur under a single rule, creating a powerful confederation which is referred to by the medieval authors as The Old Great Bulgaria and also known as Onogundur-Bulgar Empire (or in western version: Onoghuria). Some scholars assume that it also included among its subjects the defeated Avars and stretched as far west as the Pannonian plain. It is presumed that his capital was the ancient city of Phanagoria on the Taman peninsula. Kubrat's grave was discovered in 1912 at Pereshchepina, Ukraine.

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History of Bulgaria
  • Prehistory
  • Odrysian kingdom 460 BC–46 AD
  • Old Great Bulgaria 632–668
  • First Bulgarian Empire
    681–1018
    • Christianization
    • Golden Age 896–927
    • Cometopuli dynasty 968–1018
    • Byzantine conquest 968–1018
  • Second Bulgarian Empire
    1185–1396
    • Second Golden Age 1230–1241
    • Mongol invasion 1274–1300
    • Recovery and expansion 1300–71
    • Bulgarian–Ottoman Wars 1371–96
  • Ottoman Bulgaria
    1396–1878
    • Resistance after 1413
    • National Revival 1762–1878
    • Liberation War 1877–1878
  • Third Bulgarian State
    1878–1946
    • Unification 1885
    • Balkan Wars 1912–1913
    • World War I 1915–1918
    • World War II 1941–1945
  • Communist era 1946–1990
  • Transition era since 1990

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