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The Dulo Clan or the House of Dulo was the name of the ruling dynasty of the early Bulgars
Bulgars

The Bulgars were a seminomadic people, probably of Turkic peoples descent, originally from Southern Central Asia, who from the 2nd century onwards dwelled in the steppes north of the Caucasus and around the banks of river Volga ....
.

This was the clan of Kubrat
Kubrat

Kubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by defeating the Eurasian Avars and uniting all the Bulgars under one rule....
 who founded the Onogur state of Bulgars and Avars
Eurasian Avars

The 'Avars' were a highly organized and powerful Turkic confederation. They were ruled by a khagan, who was surrounded by a tight-knit retinue of nomad warriors, an organization characteristic of Turkic peoples groups....
, also known as the Old Great Bulgaria
Old Great Bulgaria

Old Great Bulgaria or Great Bulgaria was ? term used by Byzantine historians to refer to the territories controlled by the Bulgars ruler Kubrat in the 7th century north of the Caucasus mountains in the steppe between the Dniester and Lower Volga....
, and his sons Batbayan, Kuber
Kuber

K?ber, according to the Miracles of St Demetrius, is the name used for the leadership appointed in the 670s over a mixed Christian population of Bulgars, ?Names of the Greeks#Romans_.28.CE.A1.CF.89.CE.BC.CE.B1.CE.AF.CE.BF.CE.B9.29_and_Romioi_.28.CE.A1.CF.89.CE.BC.CE.B9.CE.BF.CE.AF.29?, Slavs and Germanic people that had been transferred t...
 and Asparuh, the latter of which founded Danube Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
.

A later genealogy
Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans

The Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans is a short manuscript containing the names of some early Bulgars rulers, their clans, the year of their ascending to the throne according to the cyclic Bulgar calendar and the length of their rule, including the times of joint rule and civil war....
 claims that the Dulo clan is descended from Attila the Hun
Attila the Hun

Attila , also known as Attila the Hun, was leader of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the Danube to the Baltic Sea ....
. As Kubrat is mentioned in the Orkhon inscriptions and if John of Nikiu
John of Nikiû

John of Niki? was an Egyptians Coptic bishop of Niki?/Pashati in the Egyptian Delta and appointed general administrator of the monasteries of Upper Egypt in 696....
's "Quetrades" is indeed Kubrat
Kubrat

Kubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by defeating the Eurasian Avars and uniting all the Bulgars under one rule....
, it is also likely that they were somewhat related to the Ashina
Ashina

Ashina was a tribe and the ruling dynasty of the ancient Turkic peoples who rose to prominence in the mid-6th century when their leader, Bumin Khan, revolted against the Rouran....
 clan adopting its Tamga, though it seems that Dulo not only broke off from the royal Ashina clan, but became totally opposed to it, manifesting it not only in opposition to the Khazar Kaganate headed by an Ashina kagan, but also demonstratively not using the name.






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The Dulo Clan or the House of Dulo was the name of the ruling dynasty of the early Bulgars
Bulgars

The Bulgars were a seminomadic people, probably of Turkic peoples descent, originally from Southern Central Asia, who from the 2nd century onwards dwelled in the steppes north of the Caucasus and around the banks of river Volga ....
.

This was the clan of Kubrat
Kubrat

Kubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by defeating the Eurasian Avars and uniting all the Bulgars under one rule....
 who founded the Onogur state of Bulgars and Avars
Eurasian Avars

The 'Avars' were a highly organized and powerful Turkic confederation. They were ruled by a khagan, who was surrounded by a tight-knit retinue of nomad warriors, an organization characteristic of Turkic peoples groups....
, also known as the Old Great Bulgaria
Old Great Bulgaria

Old Great Bulgaria or Great Bulgaria was ? term used by Byzantine historians to refer to the territories controlled by the Bulgars ruler Kubrat in the 7th century north of the Caucasus mountains in the steppe between the Dniester and Lower Volga....
, and his sons Batbayan, Kuber
Kuber

K?ber, according to the Miracles of St Demetrius, is the name used for the leadership appointed in the 670s over a mixed Christian population of Bulgars, ?Names of the Greeks#Romans_.28.CE.A1.CF.89.CE.BC.CE.B1.CE.AF.CE.BF.CE.B9.29_and_Romioi_.28.CE.A1.CF.89.CE.BC.CE.B9.CE.BF.CE.AF.29?, Slavs and Germanic people that had been transferred t...
 and Asparuh, the latter of which founded Danube Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
.

A later genealogy
Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans

The Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans is a short manuscript containing the names of some early Bulgars rulers, their clans, the year of their ascending to the throne according to the cyclic Bulgar calendar and the length of their rule, including the times of joint rule and civil war....
 claims that the Dulo clan is descended from Attila the Hun
Attila the Hun

Attila , also known as Attila the Hun, was leader of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the Danube to the Baltic Sea ....
. As Kubrat is mentioned in the Orkhon inscriptions and if John of Nikiu
John of Nikiû

John of Niki? was an Egyptians Coptic bishop of Niki?/Pashati in the Egyptian Delta and appointed general administrator of the monasteries of Upper Egypt in 696....
's "Quetrades" is indeed Kubrat
Kubrat

Kubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by defeating the Eurasian Avars and uniting all the Bulgars under one rule....
, it is also likely that they were somewhat related to the Ashina
Ashina

Ashina was a tribe and the ruling dynasty of the ancient Turkic peoples who rose to prominence in the mid-6th century when their leader, Bumin Khan, revolted against the Rouran....
 clan adopting its Tamga, though it seems that Dulo not only broke off from the royal Ashina clan, but became totally opposed to it, manifesting it not only in opposition to the Khazar Kaganate headed by an Ashina kagan, but also demonstratively not using the name. The Dulo clan name descends from the Dulo (Tele
Tiele

Tiele may refer to:*Dingling and Tiele, ancient Siberian people*Tiele, Mali, commune and town...
) tribe group, and the Dulo/Ashina opposition was a main cause of the ethnic conflicts that tore apart the Turkic Kaganate, and a little later the Western Turkic Kaganate, bringing about the short-lived independence of the Great Bulgaria, and the emergence of Danube Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
Volga Bulgaria
Volga Bulgaria

Volga Bulgaria or Volga-Kama Bolghar, is an historic Bulgarian state that existed between the seventh and thirteenth centuries around the confluence of the Volga River and Kama River rivers in what is now Russia....
 and Rus kaganate
Rus' Khaganate

The Rus' Khaganate was a polity that flourished during a poorly documented period in the history of Eastern Europe . A predecessor to the Rurik Dynasty and the Kievan Rus', the Rus' Khaganate was a state set up by a people called Rhos or Rus , at least some of whom were Varangians , in what is today northern Russia....
 in the early 800 CE.

Tamga


The trident tamga of the Dulo clan is the tamga of the Ashina clan, a trident later found in the coat of arms of the Bulgarian and Rus dynasties adopted as the national symbol of the Ukraine and Crimea.

Dulo dynasties


Rulers of Danube Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
 of the Dulo dynasty:

  • Asparuh
  • Tervel
  • Kormesiy
  • Sevar


See also

  • List of Bulgarian monarchs
    List of Bulgarian monarchs

    This is a list of Bulgarian monarchs from the earliest historical records to 1946, when the monarchy in the country was abolished. Early Bulgarian rulers are believed to have used the title Khan , later possibly kniaz, and still later the title tsar....