Old Great Bulgaria: Origins, Culture and Legacy of the Ancient Bulgars

I have roots of Chuvash ( Volga Bulgars) + Whiterussian = fill like a Bulgarian. Hello to my Bulgarian brathers!

Ask yourself whether it is possible for a newly created country to be called by the Roman chronographs Old Great Bulgaria and then judge for the whole video.

The Cyrillic language was invented by Bulgarians

Hello to all Bulgar brothers from Volga Tatar

Bulgarians using a varient of the Cyrilic alphabet???? "The Cyrillic script is a writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th century. It was created to write the Old Church Slavonic language, which was the first Slavic literary language. The script is named after Saint Cyril, one of the two Byzantine brothers, Cyril and Methodius, who were credited with standardizing the Slavic languages and, thus, bringing literacy and Christianity to the Slavic peoples." So we can easily say that Bulgarians are the creators of the script,it was literally made by them for them? "Yes, it's accurate to attribute significant credit to the Bulgarians for the creation and dissemination of the Cyrillic script. The script was indeed developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th century. While Saints Cyril and Methodius, who were Byzantine brothers, are often credited with its creation, it's important to clarify their roles and the context in which Cyrillic was developed. Cyril and Methodius were primarily responsible for the creation of the Glagolitic script, the oldest known Slavic alphabet, which they devised to translate the Bible and other texts into the Old Church Slavonic language for the Great Moravia territory (present-day Slovakia and Czech Republic). Their mission was part of a broader effort to spread Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe. The Glagolitic script was the basis for the development of the Cyrillic script. The Cyrillic script, however, was developed later, after the death of Cyril and Methodius, by their disciples and other scholars in the Preslav Literary School and the Ohrid Literary School within the First Bulgarian Empire. This new script was more influenced by the Greek alphabet and was adapted to better suit the phonetic peculiarities of Slavic languages. The Cyrillic script quickly gained popularity over the Glagolitic script due to its simplicity and the influence of the Bulgarian Empire." Please stop making videos!

Nowadays, no one is pure Germanic, Slavic or Turkic. What matters is what you feel in your soul. Greetings to those who gallop westward on the steppes with their majestic horses, get ambitious with war drums, and find awe with ancient melodies

Love this video 😍 I’m a Turk and I have had my DNA tested with the highest percentage of DNA from Bulgaria, my family currently lives near Tekirdağ - Trakya only 50km from the Bulgarian border. So this was very informative for me to learn about my history. Thank you kardeş 👏👏👏

Bulgarians are one of the greatest and oldest in history!

Thank you ❤ very much for the video!

Amazing video, as usual Thanks Emre

Thanks!

Great video

The Kutrigurs are mentioned frequently in late antique sources from the 6th century, such as in Pseudo-Zacharias (Pseudo-Zacharias or in the Ecclesiastical History of Zacharias of Mytilene), Procopius of Caesarea, Agathius and Menander Protector. Procopius cites a legendary account according to which Kutrigurians and Utigurians originally lived in the same state. Probably in the first half of the 5th century they attacked the Goths west of the Don and pushed them out of Black Sea Scythia. Gruset thinks that the Kutrigurs are remnants of the Huns. Procopius narrates: "In ancient times many Huns, then called CIMMERIANS, inhabited the lands I have already mentioned. They all had one king. Once one of their kings had two sons: one named Utigur and the other named Kutrigur. After the death of their father they divided the power and gave their names to the subject peoples, so that to this day some of them are called Utiguri and others Kutriguri." They occupy the Tanaitic-Meotian (Dono-Azov) steppe zone, the Kutrigurs in the western part and the Utrigurs in the east. The Syriac translation of the Ecclesiastical History of Pseudo-Zacharius the Rhetor (c. 555) in Western Eurasia describes thirteen tribes, wngwr (Unogur) , wgr (Ugri), sbr (Sabir), bwrgr (Burğar , i.e. Bulgarians), kwrtrgr (Kutriğurs), br (probably Abar , i.e. Avar), ksr (Kasr ; Akatziri ?), srwrgwr ( Saragur), dyrmr(* [I]di[r]mar ? < Ιτιμαροι ), b'grsyq (Bagrasik , i.e. Barsili), kwls ( Khalizi ?), bdl ( Abdali ?) and ftlyt (Ephthalite). The first more reliable information about the Kutriguri dates from 482, when they entered into an alliance with Emperor Zeno against the Ostrogoths who attacked the Eastern Roman Empire. Agathia (c. 579–582) writes:...They are all called SCYTHIANS in general and HUNS in particular according to their nation. Thus, some are Koutrigours or Outigours, and others Oultizurs and Bourougounds... Oultizurs and Bourougounds were known down to the time of the Emperor Leo (457–474) and the Romans of that time, and seem to have been powerful... Perhaps they perished, or perhaps they moved to a very distant place." From 493 onwards, the Cutriguri waged repeated wars against the Empire, reaching Illyria, Thessaly and Constantinople. They also took part in the campaigns of the rebellious general Vitalian (514/515 and 518 /520). The contacts between the Empire and the Kutrigurs were multidirectional - in 528 Кanas Gord accepted Christianity and tried to impose it on his compatriots, but without success. In 550, the Gepids asked the Cutriguri for help in fighting against the Lombards. At that time, they came into contact with the Eastern Roman Empire. Although they received annual money from the emperor in Constantinople, they frequently invaded Eastern Roman territory. On the other hand, the Cutriguri also served in the Eastern Roman army, for example a Sinnion fought as an officer under Belisarius (505 – 565). In 551 the Kutrigurs again invaded the territories of the Empire. In 551, an army of 12,000 Cutriguri, led by many commanders, including Hynialon, came from "the west side of the Meotic lake" to help the Gepids, who were at war with the Lombards. Around 551, the Romans came to an agreement with Кanas of the Utigurs, Sandilchus, who with an army of Utigurs and Tetraxites attacked the undefended territory of the Kutrigurs, whose main troops were at that moment on the Balkan Peninsula.and inflicted a heavy defeat on them. The campaign was successful and thousands of Romani held captive were freed and returned to the empire. Part of the defeated Kutriguri were also accepted by the emperor and settled in Thrace. In 558, the Kutrigurian Кanas Zabergan undertook a new march towards Constantinople, but withdrew. Meanwhile, Kanas Sandilh, bribed by Emperor Justinian I, once again raided the lands of the Kutriguri and in the following years the clashes between Kutriguri and Utiguri continued. The Kutrigur and Utigur, called Huns by Procopius, Agathias, and Menander, were of the same stock, dressed in the same way, and had the same language. The names Kutrigur, Bulgar and Hun are used interchangeably and refer in all probability not to separate groups but one group. Menander Protector described the time of the arrival of the Cutriguri in Thrace at the time of Justinian I in 558. Around 558, north of the Caspian Sea, the Avars appeared and formed an alliance with the Eastern Roman Empire against the Alans. Pursued by the Gökturk warlord Istemi, the Avars continued to move westward and 560 subdued the Utigurs. The rest of the Utiguri remained within the Turkic Haganate. (Istemi in the west subjugated the Alans, Khazars and some Utigurs, reaching the Black Sea, but not the Kutrigurs.) A large part of Utigurs moved west with the Avars to Pannonia, and part of their lands were occupied by the Slavic tribe Anti. In 576, an army of Turks and Utiguri besieged and captured Bosporus, but the civil war in the Haganate forced them to abandon the city. In the 7th century, 632, the Uti/Gur tribes, already known as "Uno/Gunduri"', regained their independence and together with the rest of the Kutri/Gurs in Black Sea Scythia, already known under the name "Kotragi", formed the state of Old Great Bulgaria, headed by Patricii, Kanas (Kniaz) U-vigi (from God) Kubrat. Towards the end of the 7th century, the Kutriguri from Pannonia under the leadership of Kanas Kuber migrated to the Balkans. Before that, they rebelled in the Avar Haganate. In their march to Byzantium in 680, they reached Thessaloniki. They concluded a peace agreement with Byzantium and settled where the Keramisian Field (Bitolsko Field) is. At the beginning of the 9th century, these lands were included in the composition of Danube Bulgaria. M. Artamonov accepts that the Utigurs are of mixed Hunno-Ugric origin. "After a period of chaos following Attila's death, dualism again reasserted itself in the succession of Dengitzik and Ernak (west and east respectively). The successor to the Hunnic Empire in the east, or rather probably the continuation, also featured two wings, the Kutrigurs (west) and the Utigurs (east), ruled presumably by Ernak's descendants. Priscus Paniyski describes the HUNIS as a "gathering of peoples" and claims that the name HUNIS is devoid of ethnic meaning and is a common name for all the subjects of their empire. Some scholars such as Edwin Pouleyblanc and Yuri Zuev link the origin of the Utigurs with the Yueji. The Hun emperor Attila was also Bulgarian and Bulgarians played a major role in his empire. By Prisk Paniyski АTTILA is described as a Scythian of the Royal Scythians and there can be no question that the Bulgarians are some kind of Turks. THE BULGARIANS ARE ANCIENT THRACOCIMMERIANS. You have looked at the matter very superficially without evidence.

A great video, I truly enjoy your informative videos. Keep'em coming.

An amazing video...

Fun fact; Timur called Tokthamysh as “Bulgar Khan”

Congrats... Amazing video again. :)

I'm not arguing, but i have read a new monograph that argues that the elite class (Dulo, which are Turkic) is ruling the majority of people. The majority is from Sarmatian descent. If you look only from a linguistic point of view, you can say that the Bulgarians are of Turkic origin. This has been the view on the subject for some time. In recent years, tombs have been discovered in and around Ukraine, which can now help to look at them from a Paleoanthropology point of view

Grousset thought that the Kutrigurs were remnants of the Huns, Procopius recounts: in the old days many Huns,[nb 1] called then Cimmerians, inhabited the lands I mentioned already. They all had a single king. Once one of their kings had two sons: one called Utigur and another called Kutrigur. After their father's death they shared the power and gave their names to the subjected peoples, so that even nowadays some of them are called Utigurs and the others - Kutrigurs.

I am very proud of my Turkic, Greek and Bulgarian Heritage! Long Live the Ancient Dreams!