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The legend of Basil the Bulgar-slayer

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2000
AbstractThis article surveys the reputation of the emperor Basil II as the Bulgar-slayer from the twentieth to the eleventh century. Basil featured in a number of historical and literary works at the time of the ‘Macedonian Struggle’ (1904-8). In the nineteenth century Basil was considered a key historical figure by those seeking to establish hellenic ...
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Photios and the Bulgar Language (τῶγα, tuğ)

2021
This paper investigates a lexical gloss in the final recension of Photios' Amphilochia (880s), in which the 'barbarian' word τῶγα is inserted into excerpts from John Lydos' De magistratibus (c.550) as an alternative contemporary term for an animal-hair crest or tassel on a royal standard.
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Documentation of the Bulgar-Tatar Tombstones by Modern Methods

Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost, 2023
Bulgaro-Tatar epigraphic monuments of the 13th–17th centuries with graceful calligraphic Arabic writing and peculiar floral ornamentation are unique evidence of history of the Tatars. Epitaphs are not only the last tribute to a dead person, first of all they served and serve living people, referring to their memory, feelings and attitude of a person ...
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The Origin of The Bulgars and Their Independence Movements

2020
Archaeological remains indicate that the Bulgarians were a Turkish tribe. The Bulgarians living under the rule of the Gokturks established the 'Great Bulgarian State' in 630, during the weak period of the Gokturks. This state was distributed by the Khazar Khanate (665).
TANSÜ, Yunus Emre, ÇERKEZOĞLU, Semra
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Images of the Bulgar-slayer: three art historical notes

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2001
AbstractFollowing A. Cutler and G. Prinzing, this paper maintains that two works of art, Basil’s psalter portrait and the imperial silk in Bamberg Cathedral (Gunthertuch), cannot be associated with Basil II’s victory over the Bulgarians in 1018. A third work, a series of portraits known only from a late twelfth-century epigram, is adduced as evidence ...
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Islam in the history of the volga kama bulgars and tatars

Central Asian Survey, 1990
(1990). Islam in the history of the volga kama bulgars and tatars. Central Asian Survey: Vol. 9, Idel‐Ural, pp. 1-11.
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The Pagan Bulgars and Byzantine Christianity in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries

Journal of Historical Sociology, 2000
This paper examines how the Bulgars perceived Byzantine Christianity in the period before their conversion to Christianity in 864. It tries to establish a connection between literacy, population, kingship, and religion. The Bulgars’ attitude toward the ‘god of the Greeks’ is examined against the background of the impact of Christian versus Pagan in ...
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Prelude: Establishment and Survival of the Bulgar State, 679–803

2017
Sets the stage for the hegemonic wars by tracing the military and political history of the founding and establishment of the Bulgar state in the Balkans on former Byzantine territories during the late seventh and eighth centuries. Under their rulers Asparuh and Tervel the Bulgars were both antagonists and allies of the Byzantine Empire.
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