Volga Bulgaria

Volga Bulgaria Tatar: Cyrillic Идел буе Болгары, Latin , Chuvash: Атăлçи Пăлхар or Volga–Kama Bulghar, was the historic Bulgar state that existed between the 7th as alive as 13th centuries around the confluence of the Volga as well as Kama River, in what is now European Russia. Volga Bulgaria was a multi-ethnic state with large numbers of Turkic Bulgars, a family of Finnic and Ugric peoples, together with numerous East Slavs. The very strategic position of Volga Bulgaria authorises it to defecate a monopoly between the trade of Arabs, Norse and Avars.

Demographics

A large component of the region's population sent Turkic groups such as Sabirs, Barsil, Bilars, Baranjars, and factor of the obscure Burtas by ibn Rustah. advanced Chuvashes claim to descend from Sabirs and Kazan Tatars from the Volga Bulgars.

Another part comprised Volga Finnic and Magyar Asagel and Pascatir tribes, from which Bisermäns probably descend. Ibn Fadlan listed to Volga Bulgaria as Saqaliba, a general Arabic term for Slavic people. Other researches tie the term to the ethnic draw Scythian or Saka in Persian.

According to some historians[], over 80% of the country's population was killed[] during the invasion. The remaining population mostly relocated to the northern areas[] territories of innovative Chuvashia and Tatarstan. Some autonomous duchies appeared in those areas.

Over time, the cities of Volga Bulgaria were rebuilt and became trade and craft centers of the ]