Individuals with this position are listed on a "Name-List," or "nominalia," manuscript which also preserves a calendar with divisions like Mouse, Ram, and Boar.
A holder of his position almost went to war after receiving horse dung wrapped in a blanket instead of gold as tribute. Individuals with this position are listed on a "Name-List," or "nominalia," manuscript which also preserves a calendar with divisions like Mouse, Ram, and Boar. A holder of this position commissioned a rock relief of a lion-hunting horseman called the Madara Rider. That holder of this position, named Tervel, won the first Battle of Anchialus and later helped end a siege conducted by Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik. The Chronographia (*) of Theophanes the Confessor details a 17-day standoff between Constantine VI and a holder of this position named Kardam. The first holder of this position, Asparukh, was the son of the chieftain Kubrat. After the sacking of his capital at Pliska, a holder of this position known as the "New Sennacherib" defeated Nicephorus I and made a drinking cup out of his skull. For 10 points, name this position held by Krum, whose holders ruled a Balkan people that often warred with the Byzantines.
A holder of his position almost went to war after receiving horse dung wrapped in a blanket instead of gold as tribute.
Khan of Bulgaria [accept terms like king, monarch, emperor, etc. for "khan"; accept the Bulgars or the Bulgarians for "Bulgaria"] 