What is Old Great Bulgaria?
{{Infobox country | conventional_long_name = Old Great Bulgaria | common_name = Old Great Bulgaria | native_name = | image_map = Old Great Bulgaria.svg | religion = [[Tengrism]] | demonym = [[Bulgars|Bulgar]] | government_type = [[Absolute monarchy]] | status = Empire | year_end = 668 | year_start = 632<ref>Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250, Florin Curta, Cambridge University Press, 2006, {{ISBN|0521815398}}, p. 78.</ref> | image_map_caption = {{legend|#a4a633|Old Great Bulgaria}} | common_languages = [[Bulgar language|Bulgar]] | s1 = First Bulgarian Empire| | era = Middle Ages| }} '''Old Great Bulgaria''' was a 7th-century [[Nomadic empires|nomadic empire]]. It was created by the [[Onogurs|Onogur]] [[Bulgars]] on the western [[Pontic–Caspian steppe]] (what is now southern [[Ukraine]] and southwest [[Russia]]).<ref>{{cite book|title=Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States (400-800 AD|last1=Leif Inge Ree Petersen|date=2013|pages=112|ref=}}</ref> ==History== In the early 7th century, [[Khan (title)|Khan]] [[Kubrat]] united the Onogur Bulgars and other [[Turkic peoples|Turkic tribes]]. == References == <references /> [[Category:Former countries in Europe]] {{europe-stub}}