| Kubrat | |
|---|---|
| Khan | |
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| Reign | c. 632 – c. 650/665?[1] |
| Predecessor | Gostun |
| Successor | Batbayan |
| Born | 606 |
| Died | 665 Old Great Bulgaria |
| Burial | Pereshchepina (now in Ukraine) |
| House | Dulo |
| Tamga |  |
Kubrat (Greek: Κροβατον, Kούβρατος; Bulgarian: Кубрат [koˈbrat]) was the ruler of the Onogur–Bulgars, credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in ca. 632.[2] His name derived from the Turkic words qobrat — "to gather", or qurt, i.e. "wolf".[a]
- ^ Kiril Petkov, The Voices of Medieval Bulgaria, Seventh-Fifteenth Century: The Records of a Bygone Culture East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, BRILL, 2008, ISBN 9047433750, p. 1.
- ^ Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250, Florin Curta, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 0521815398, p. 78.