Asparukh of Bulgaria

Asparuch, also Isperich, or ISPOR ( Bulgarian Аспарух, or Исперих, Испор; * to 641; † about 702 ) was a Khan of the First Bulgarian Empire, son of Kubrat, ruler of the Great Bulgarian Empire. He belonged to the Bulgarian dynasty rule Dulo.

Life

After the death of Khan Kubrat, the United Bulgarian Empire split. Asparuch was pushed with a part of the Proto-Bulgarians of the Khazars from the Russian steppes in today's Ukraine in the Danube Delta. After the conquest of the Byzantine Dobruja, he founded 679 in association with the Slavic tribes living in Moesia, including the Seweren, another Bulgarian Empire, which is named in the First Bulgarian Empire historical research. It is believed that a Slav- Bulgarian Empire was a Bulgarian elites who ruled over a Slavic, mostly peasant population and the remains of Roman provincial population. First capital was located in the place Norddobrudscha Ongal. After further theories attracted the Bulgarian ruler, similar to the later German emperors (→ Reisekönigtum ) from place to place.

After futile attempts subjugation between 679-680, this kingdom was recognized by contract in the summer of 681 by the Byzantine Emperor Constantine IV Pogonatos. The Bulgarians finally moved their capital further south to Pliska.

Probably sat already a Asparuch the process of Slavicization the Bulgarian elite. The threat of the Byzantine Empire by the Arabs and the associated weakening may have initially had a stabilizing effect on Asparuchs Empire.

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Since 1982, operates on the Danube, the Han Asparuh, a named after Khan Asparuch cargo ship. The city Isperich in Northeast Bulgaria bears his name. Asparuch was elected in Bulgarian National Television on the question of the " greatest Bulgarians " to third place.