Old Great Bulgaria

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).^[3]

Old Great Bulgaria
632[1]–668
Old Great Bulgaria
Common languages	Bulgar
Religion	Tengrism
Demonym(s)	Bulgar
Government	Absolute monarchy
Historical era	Middle Ages
• Established	632[2]
• Disestablished	668
Succeeded by First Bulgarian Empire

History

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

References

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