Bulgars led by Khan Krum pursue the Byzantines at the Battle of Versinikia (813)
*from book "Miniatures from the Manasses Chronicle", Ivan Duichev, "Bulgarski hudojnik" Publishing house, Sofia, 1962
The Bulgars originally established Old Great Bulgaria in the Pontic Steppe in the 7th century, but this state disintegrated as Khazar pressure forced the Bulgars to migrate to safer locations. Part of the Bulgars went west with Khan Asparuh who founded the First Bulgarian Empire with local Slavic tribes. Another group of Bulgars though, led by Asparuh's brother Kotrag, headed north along the Volga and this group eventually settled in what is now modern-day Tatarstan and established Volga Bulgaria. In 922 Khan Almış of Volga Bulgaria invited the Baghdad caliph to send an ambassador to Bulgar. The ambassador and traveller Ahmad ibn Fadlan came to Bulgar and as a result Khan Almış adopted Islam as the official religion of Volga Bulgaria.
"History of Bolgar
10th Century
The present day city of Bolgar is located immediately next to the ancient city of Bulgar (also known as Bolghar or Great Bulgar) which was first mentioned in 920 by the Persian geographer Abu Zayd al-Balkhi. The city was the centre of Volga Bulgaria which itself was formed around the end of the 9th and beginning of the 10th century by the semi-nomadic Bulgar tribe." - quote from History of Bolgar
SOURCES:
1. http://tatarstan.ru/eng/about/human.htm - Official Tartarstan
2. https://whc.unesco.org/ - Bolghar
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