Dulo clan

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The Dulo Clan or the House of Dulo was the name of the ruling dynasty of the early Bulgars.

This was the clan of Kubrat who founded the Onogur state of Bulgars and Avars, also known as the Old Great Bulgaria^[1], 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. It is also likely that they were somewhat related to the Ashina clan, though it seems that Dulo not only broke off from the royal Ashina clan, but was 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 (Tele) 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 short-lived independence of the Great Bulgaria, and the emergence of Danube Bulgaria and Rus kaganate in the early 800 CE.

Contents 1 Tamga 2 Dulo dynasties 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Tamga

The trident tamga of the Dulo clan is the tamga of the Ashina clan, a trident later found in the coat of arms of the Bulgarian and Rus dynasties.

[edit] Dulo dynasties

Rulers of Danube Bulgaria of the Dulo dynasty:

• Asparuh
• Tervel
• Kormesiy
• Sevar

[edit] See also

• List of Bulgarian monarchs

[edit] References

1. ^ Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople, "Historia syntomos, breviarium"