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    Waves of invaders like the Huns and Goths plagued the Balkans in the 3rd century AD but did not occupy the territory permanently. Slavic groups began settling the region in the 5th century and overcame Byzantine resistance to settle most of the Balkans by the 7th century. Around this time, the Bulgars, a people of mixed Turkic origin, also migrated to the Balkans from between the Urals and Volga River. They formed a federation with the Slavs to oppose Byzantine control. By 681, the Bulgar khan Asparukh had established the first Bulgarian state with its capital at Pliska, combining Bulgarian political structures with Slavic culture

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    Waves of invaders like the Huns and Goths plagued the Balkans in the 3rd century AD but did not occupy the territory permanently. Slavic groups began settling the region in the 5th century and overcame Byzantine resistance to settle most of the Balkans by the 7th century. Around this time, the Bulgars, a people of mixed Turkic origin, also migrated to the Balkans from between the Urals and Volga River. They formed a federation with the Slavs to oppose Byzantine control. By 681, the Bulgar khan Asparukh had established the first Bulgarian state with its capital at Pliska, combining Bulgarian political structures with Slavic culture

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    Bulgaria
    The Slavs and the Bulgars
    Waves of Huns, Goths, Visigoths, and Ostrogoths invaded and plundered
    the Balkans beginning in the third century A.D. None of these invaders
    permanently occupied territory. Small Slavic groups began settling outlying
    regions in the fifth century, and by the seventh century the Slavs had
    overcome Byzantine resistance and settled most of the Balkans. The Slavs
    brought a more stable culture, retained their own language, and
    substantially slavicized the existing Roman and Byzantine social system.
    The immigration of the first Bulgars overlapped that of the Slavs in the
    seventh century. Of mixed Turkic stock (the word Bulgar derives from an
    Old Turkic word meaning "one of mixed nationality"), the Bulgars were
    warriors who had migrated from a region between the Urals and the Volga
    to the steppes north of the Caspian Sea, then across the Danube into the
    Balkans. Besides a formidable reputation as military horsemen, the Bulgars
    had a strong political organization based on their khan (prince). In A.D. 630
    a federation of Bulgar tribes already existed; in the next years the Bulgars
    united with the Slavs to oppose Byzantine control. By 681 the khan
    Asparukh had forced Emperor Constantine V to recognize the first
    Bulgarian state. The state, whose capital was at Pliska, near modern
    Shumen, combined a Bulgarian political structure with Slavic linguistic and
    cultural institutions.

    http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DO... 28.9.2010 г.

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