Kuber

Kuwer or Kuber ( Bulg Кубер; * before 635; † after 680) was a Bulgarian Khan, son of Khan Kubrat and brother of Khan Asparuch. He belonged to the Bulgarian dynasty rule Dulo.

After the death of Khan Kubrat and given the hopeless war against the Khazars, shared his five sons the kingdom and people of the Bulgarians. Each son moved in a different direction and founded another kingdom ( Khaganate ) except Batbajan Khan, the successor to the throne of Kubrat was. All these kingdoms have been named Bulgaria - Bulgaria Danube, Volga Bulgaria, Great Bulgaria.

Khan Kuwer was the fourth son Kubrat. He moved with some tribal groups together with his younger brother Alzek to the west. He settled in Pannonia. According to the Byzantine source " miracle of Demetrius of Thessaloniki" was Khan Kuwer 635 rulers of the region of Syrmia, but he had to accept and be the vassal of the supremacy of the Avar khanate.

Between 678-680 the Bulgars under Khan Kuwer rebelled together with the Sermesianoi, descendants of the Roman provincial population of the Balkans unsuccessfully against the Avars. After the failed revolt against the Avar tribal leadership, the way of Khan and Khan Kuwer Alzek parted. Alzek further moved towards the west until he reached the Lombard lands. There he was given the Duchy of Benevento awarded.

Khan Kuwer moved towards the south, together with parts of Sermesianoi and abducted by the Avars settled in Pannonia 626 Roman prisoners. After an unsuccessful siege of Thessaloniki ( 682-684 ), he concluded a treaty with the Byzantine Emperor Constantine IV Pogonatos and settled in the uninhabited area of Bitola (today's Western Macedonia and Eastern Albania ) down, which belonged to the Byzantine theme Thesalonika. There built enveloping 680 Khaganate, which was also named Bulgaria. The name of this Empire as Western Bulgarian kingdom is controversial.

More information about Khan enveloping were not recorded, only it is assumed that it is the Kuverbulgaren in an inscription of W. Beschewliew found near the Madara Rider. In this inscription Terwel describes his relations with the Byzantine Emperor and his relatives ( uncles), who had settled near Thessaloniki. It is the uncle of Tervel, Kuwer Khan, the brother of his father Khan Asparuch:

As a particularly dramatic event, the arrival of the Bulgarians in Macedonia is described by a later writers of the 11th century: