Batbayan
Batbayan ruled the Khazarian Bulgars from 667 to 690 CE. Theophanes and Nicephorus record his rule after the Khazars defeated the Bulgars and Old Great Bulgaria disintegrated in 668 CE.
Born~Died date unknown ~ 690Last edited Oct 15, 2026, 3:41 PM
Batbayan ruled the Khazarian Bulgars from 667 to 690 CE.12 Theophanes and Nicephorus record his rule after the Khazars defeated the Bulgars and Old Great Bulgaria disintegrated in 668 CE.3
There is a scholarly theory that he may have been the same person as Bezmer4 of the Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans who may have been also the first son of Kubrat.5 He was a member of the Dulo clan, who after Kubrat's death in the mid-7th century ruled Old Great Bulgaria, but his rule lasted only three years.6 Kevin Alan Brook calls him Bayan.7 Batbayan would subsequently have ruled the Bulgars as a subject of the Khazar Khagan.
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Dinkov, Stoyan (2018). Radev, Radoslav (ed.). Османо – Римска империя, българи и тюрки (in Bulgarian) (2 ed.). Sofia: Uncorp.org. Retrieved 21 August 2023. Каганите стават балтавари: Бат-Баян Дуло (667–690), Бу-Тимер (690–700), Сулоби (700–727), [...]. ↩
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Boris Zhivkov, Khazaria in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, BRILL, 2015, ISBN 9004294481, p. 138 & 228-229. ↩
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Carl Waldman, Catherine Mason, Encyclopedia of European Peoples, Facts on File library of world history, Infobase Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1438129181. pp. 106-197. ↩
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Boris Zhivkov, Khazaria in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, BRILL, 2015, ISBN 9004294481, p. 228. ↩
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Florin Curta, Roman Kovalev as ed., "'The' Other Europe in the Middle Ages: Avars, Bulgars, Khazars and Cumans", Volume 2 of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450 - 1450, BRILL, 2008, ISBN 9004163891, p. 152. ↩
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Vasil Gyuzelev, The Proto-Bulgarians: Pre-history of Asparouhian Bulgaria, Sofia Press, 1979, p. 29. ↩
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Kevin Alan Brook, The Jews of Khazaria, Edition 3, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018, ISBN 1538103435, p. 15. ↩
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