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Kardam

Reign: 777–803

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Chronologies give different reign dates: c. 777–803 or c. 777–after 796.

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Later artistic depiction · Nikolai Pavlovich (1835–1894) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Asparuh
Later artistic depiction · Unknown author · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Tervel
Later artistic depiction · Original: Constantine Manasses · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Krum
Later artistic depiction · John Skylitzes · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Omurtag
Traditional identification: Boris I · Constantine of Preslav · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Boris I
Later artistic depiction · Anonymous medieval illuminator; reproduction uploaded by Кардам · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Simeon

First Tsardom

Sources

John R. Martindale (editor); King’s College London Old Bulgarian Rulers Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire I (641–867). Ashgate, 2001; KCL online edition. · 2001
Ian S. R. Mladjov Bulgaria (Bălgarija): kings and emperors of the Bulgarians; princes of Bulgaria and kings of the Bulgarians Ian Mladjov’s Resources, Chronologies. Author’s working chronology, updated March 2024, 6 pp. · 2024 · 1–6

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Unknown scribe · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Not a portrait: Volume containing Theophanes’s chronicle. He writes about this ruler; the pictured passage is unidentified.

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Unidentified copyist; texts by Syncellus and Theophanes; digitisation: National Library of France; Wikimedia Commons; Public domain. Two pages from a later copy of chronicles: BnF Supplément grec 327. This is not a record of the council of 681. The passage has not been identified as an account of Asparuh. Processed image.

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