old great bulgaria - Establishment
Between 630 and 635 Khan Kubrat managed to unite the two main Bulgar tribes of Kutrigur and Onogondur under a single rule, creating a powerful confederation which is referred to by the medieval authors as The Old Great Bulgaria ^{_ Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople_} and also known as Onoghuria. Some scholars assume that it also included among its subjects the defeated Avars and stretched as far west as the Pannonian plain. It is presumed that his capital was the ancient city of Phanagoria on the Taman peninsula. Kubrat's grave was discovered in 1912 at Pereshchepina, Ukraine ^{Rasho Rashev} .

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