
5: Vikings, Slavers, Lawgivers: The Kyiv State
The Making of Modern Ukraine
Who Are the Bulgars?
The bulgars are a Turkic people, some of whom stayed in what's now kind of South-Central Russia and converted to Islam. They seem to convert to Christianity around the year 865. And that's the prehistory of the Bulgarian nation that we know and love today. The Bulgarians found a state which is Orthodox but not part of the Byzantine Empire.
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