Old Great Bulgaria

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Was a nomadic empire founded by Bulgars in modern southern Ukraine and southwest Russia. After the Avar and Khazar invasions, the Bulgars moved further west and the polity ceased to exist.

Establishment

January 629: Around 628 Kubrat of Bulgaria returned to his homeland and took the leadership of his people, probably with the approval of the Avars. A short time later he succeeded in overthrowing the Avar domination and also in separating himself from the Western Turkic Khaganate (which was embroiled in various dynastic wars).

Chronology

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1. Early Muslim conquests

Were the military campaigns by the first three Islamic Caliphates (the Caliphate of Muhammad, the Rashidun Caliphate and the Umayyad Caliphate) that led to the Islamic conquest of most of the Middle East as well as the Iberian Peninsula.

1.1.Arab-Khazar Wars

Were a series of conflicts fought between the armies of the Khazar Khaganate and the Rashidun, Umayyad, and Abbasid caliphates and their respective vassals.

1.1.1.First Arab-Khazar War

Was a war between the Khazar Kahaganate and the Rashidun Caliphate.

January 653: The Khazars abandoned Balanjar and moved their capital further north, in an attempt to evade the reach of the Arab armies.

February 653: The Khazars abandoned Balanjar and moved their capital further north, in an attempt to evade the reach of the Arab armies.

2. Conquests of Uthman

Expansion during the rule of Uthman in the Rashidun Caliphate.

January 654: An Arab emir was installed in Tbilisi about 653.

3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 651: The Qağanate of the Khazars took shape out of the ruins of the Turkic Khaganate as it broke up under pressure from the Tang dynasty armies to the east sometime between 630 and 650.