Artifacts from ancient symbols of Bulgaria

Bronze medallions with incised Proto-Bulgarian symbols IYI. Found in the fortress near the village of Srediste, Drastar (Silistra region). The end of 9th – middle of 10th century.

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Dulo clan

This was the clan of Kubrat who founded Old Great Bulgaria, and his sons Batbayan, Kuber and Asparuh, the latter of which founded Danube Bulgaria.

A later genealogy claims that the Dulo clan is descended from Attila the Hun. As Kubrat is mentioned in the Orkhon inscriptions and if John of Nikiu’s “Quetrades” is indeed Kubrat, it is also likely that they were somewhat related to the Ashina clan adopting its Tamga, though it seems that Dulo not only broke off from the royal Ashina clan, but became totally opposed to it, manifesting it not only in opposition to the Khazar Kaganate headed by an Ashina kagan, but also demonstratively not using the name. The Dulo clan name descends from the Dulo (Tiele) tribe group, and the Dulo/Ashina opposition was a main cause of the ethnic conflicts that tore apart the Turkic Kaganate, and a little later the Western Turkic Kaganate, bringing about the creation of the Great Bulgaria, and the emergence of Danube Bulgaria, Volga Bulgaria and Rus kaganate in the early 800 CE. source