Khan Asparuh - (09) - Last Battle - NikeBG

A cut-scene from the Bulgarian movie "Khan Asparuh" (aka "681 - Glory of the khan"), the full Bulgarian version. The movie was made for the 1981 jubilee "1300 years since the creation of Bulgaria". It has absolutely no computer effects, all the actors are real.
This scene in particular shows the flight of the Byzantine emperor and the last battle in the movie, resulting in a conclusive Bulgar victory.

[@JIMY45GR]

Bulgarian troops, posted by Khan Tervel, helped rescue Constantinople from the Arab expansion of 717-718. In later years (805th, the Franks and the Bulgarian Khan Kroum jointly destroyed the Avar Khanate in Panonia. Thus this aggressive and warlike alliance, which for many centuries had hindered the formation of independent national states in Central Europe was eliminated.

[@tonydabull]

Bulgarians are warriors!

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Bulgars*

[@talker1975]

Khan Asparuh was from tribe called Dulu, I'm from Kazakh tribe called Dulat

[@LeoTheJust]

Hello

[@knavishknight]

Well, Bulgarian history is incredible enough for fyromians. And I never heard of Bulgarians minding the fact that they have mixed Thracian, Hunnic, Slavic, and especially Iranic heritage (from the kingdom of Balhara). Turks have so low self-esteem that the Xiongnu Empire which once made the Han Kingdom a tributary, the Khazar khanate, the Great Seljuk Empire, Ottoman Empire can't satisfy their big ego.

[@alexanderrossovitch2585]

The Ottoman Empire is a disgrace to all those previous empires, because of its misdeeds, and because of its identity.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Turkic Bulgars are founders of Bulgaria🤣🤣

[@HunHorda]

Hungarian - Bulgarian Brotherhood!!!

[@patkakurmama]

Most scythian/sarmatian tribes were either nomadic or semi-nomadic.Bulgarians were semi nomadic since they(and the alans) were discibed as people who have many towns but some of them live in tents.Note that both bulgarians and alans were described this way.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Bulgars were Oghur Turks as all reliable historians say

[@BGSoccerMagic]

Actually it's the other way around, remmeber the slaves and the janissaries that the Otoman Empire harvested from the Bulgarian and other christian lands for several centuries. That's why they are a lot of people in Turkey that look like the normal bulgarians.

[@SKa-tt9nm]

че и ний сме дали нещо на светът и на вси Словене книга да четът; и кога му викат:"Българину!" бесно, той да се гордее с това име честно

[@izkormvach-prazoiad]

Bulgaria rules

[@talker1975]

Very good source to reconsider Turc theme is ht book of Lev Gumilev, soviet historian but who was banned in soviet era. Now in Astana there is Eurasian University named by him

[@patkakurmama]

The Gagauz are of Bulgarian origin although they speak a Turkic language. The Volga Bulgaria was invaded by mongolo-tatars that's why the people from Tatarstan are turkic. The main reigions of the ancient Bulgarians were Zoroastrism and Christianity and even Mithraism

[@talker1975]

I read all your comments guys, some of them are interesting but many stink Soviet propoganda against all turkic nations (kazakh, usbek, kirgyz, turkmen, tatar, bashkir, karakalpak, karashai, gagauz, altay and etc. sorry if i did not mention someone else). U are people intelligent enough to understand that it was specal policy of Communist party (devide and rule).

[@BGSoccerMagic]

Old-bulgarians spoke language that belongs to the Turkic family, but it doesn't mean they were old-turks or something. These two words may sound and look similar but they aren't the same thing.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Turkic is ethno-lingustic group just like Slavic

[@BGSoccerMagic]

@@papazataklaattiranimam, it is and, and my knowledge back then that they spoke such language was based entirely on our commonly accepted then understanding by the Bulgarian science. Since then I have read many chronicles and other literature and my personal understanding now is that they spoke a language that belongs to the Slavic group very close to what is now called Old-Church Slavonic and not to the Turkic language group.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

@@BGSoccerMagic Bulgar Empire used three official languages Slavic, Hellenic and Turkic

[@PROstrelqn]

Знаете ли от къде мога да си изтегля целия филм ?

[@talker1975]

How you would explain that they were nomads and had nomadic culture?

[@X3MCTZN]

Bulgarians were never Proto ( a former communist propaganda) they were, are n always wiil be BULGARS ......!!!! Such a pity, glorious tribe, now plundered and humuliated :( !!!

[@patkakurmama]

Well there's another explantation of our name. The turkists offer an explanation with the turkic word "Bulga" which means mixed people but the root of the name is Bulg(Ar)( not Bulga) and in our language it sounds more like Blgar.Many nations call us Balhari,Bolghi,the Armenians called the Bulgari "Bulh". Using the indo-iranian languages our name has been translated as noble or leader

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Source your grandmother😂

[@baabaaer]

Oh! Now I see...

[@aktayturan9272]

Bulgarians today are not turkic. The father of slavic Bulgarians today was Khan Asparuh and he come from turkic tribes and he speak similar language like Chuvash people today which they identified themselves as turkic. The demography of the area of Bulgaria today was slavic and they didint adopted the Turkic language because they lived there before Khan Asparuh come. The Turkic Khan Asparuh gived this slavic people an identity and the name of their nation. The demography is of slavic people was much higher than the slavic that's why the Bulgarians speak slavic language. For example Macedonia today is slavic, some Bulgarians told me that they are Bulgarians and they speak very similar language. Macedonians don't except that they are Bulgarians. They use the identity of the ancient Greek Macedonians to legitimate their domination of this area. They have nothing to do with the origin Macedonians. That's why Greece forced to change their name to North Macedonia. The slavic Bulgarians have the same logic, but nobody can force the bulgarians like Greek because this turkic tribe exits only in Russia and they called themselves Chuvash. If you seriously want to have an impression how the Proto Bulgarians was then you can Google the Turkic Chuvash people. They have many similarities with old Bulgarian traditions and they also have lots of genes from the origin. The Chuvash people have good relations with other big Turkic family members. Bulgarians are thankful that the Asparuh give them an identy but they ignore that he was turkic.

[@aktayturan9272]

@Jotaro97 You write lots of nonsense. The Chuvash speaks Hunnic language which is a Proto Turkic language, that's why it is far from modern Turkic even we have some similarly words also numbers. Bulgarians are not really slavs and also no connection with the heritage of great Khan Asparuh.

[@NikeBG]

"Proto-Bulgarians" is indeed a modern, historiographic term, just as "Byzantines". But the differentiation between the Bulgars/Proto-Bulgarians and the Bulgarians is clearly a necessity, at least in the historical science. Otherwise, yes, Danubian Bulgaria existed since around the 660s, and before that its immediate predecessor, Kubrat's Old Great Bulgaria - since around the 630s. And before that there were, of course, various Bulgar tribes, fighting each other and everyone else.

[@gshugar]

In western China there are a lot of people from Turkish origin. They look different than the turkihs people in Turkey. It's because the ottoman empire has been stealing bulgarian, serbian and greek children for a long time. That's why there are people with blue eyes in Turkey. And the turkish word "bulga" is just coincidense. The proto-bulgars were independant and seperate ethnic group. End of the dispute. КАЗАХ!!!

[@baabaaer]

Who is Belisarius writing to? He looks like a Roman spy to me!

[@talker1975]

In what origin of Bulgars do u believe?

[@gshugar]

Yes, I know where Khan Asparuh came from. But Siberia and the lands around have been invaded a lot of times by the mongolians. The people in Tatarstan now don't look like the people that lived there 1500 years ago. The mongols have changed their gene...

[@vincefr]

Against who Bulgarians fought ?

[@alexanderrossovitch2585]

Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire).

[@BGSoccerMagic]

we actually never got involved in a real combat agaisnt them during WWI, the military refused to fight agaisnt them.

[@SERBSERBS]

there were battles against serbia and byzantines and later against turks....

[@NormanLowell]

Imperium. The only way forward to our glorious past. The way to survival of our Race and Civilisation. Enough of fratricidal wars. Enough of cousins fighting cousins. Enough! Imperium Europa: The Book that Changed the World. Amazon Books.

[@bgtop9962]

Proizvedeniya posveteni na general Kolev: Иван Вазов: Добруджанската конница Yordan Yovkov: Beliyat eskadron.

[@X3MCTZN]

Besides, Danube Bulgara existed before 681 .. but these are only details. Ironically they never stood united fron then n even now !!!!

[@batencho]

My name is written Asen in my passport. It should be spelled Assen, but most of our institutions are pretty dumb when transcribing names and that leads to a mispronounciation. It should be Assen yes.

[@kkasapa]

The truth about Bulgarians for me that we are a mixture of Bulgarians and Slavs - with predominantly role of the Bulgarians. We cannot deny our huge Slav element in our nation. But the bulgarian element has the leading role!

[@alexanderrossovitch2585]

The 'huge' Slav element that is only 20% according to Novinite and many Bulgarian anthropologists and historians.

[@patkakurmama]

prove it

[@kkasapa]

This battle is the battle after which Bulgarians made their own country in 681. It was fought by the Bulgarians. After that Bulgarians united with the Slavic tribes, inhabiting the land between Balkan Mountain and Danube and created Bulgaria.

[@bgtop9962]

Unfortunately not, the löast time we fought against Russians was 1918, WWI.

[@JIMY45GR]

The fyromians in the Republic of fyrom, and Macedonian minorities in Greece, Bulgaria, and Albania, continue to proudly call themselves "Macedonians" and consider the "Slav" label an insult and racial slur. The western press was literary bombarded by mails, faxes, and emails from outraged Macedonians who despised being called "Slavs" during the Albanian aggression on Macedonia. in fact fyromians are bulgarians since samuel s capital was ochrid.. 2/3 of fyrom is bulgarian and 1/3 albanians

[@alexanderrossovitch2585]

All of Vardarska is Bulgarian, and Macedonians are 90% Bulgarian and 10% Serb. The Albanian elements appeared after immigration to the region in the Yugoslav Era.

[@KINGGIBARA]

Response to rabelai2006: Russia is destined to join EU. We need its culture and power

[@semnatura]

i gi razkatavameeeeee xaxaxaaxaxaxaxxaxa

[@kkasapa]

Originally Bulgarians had come from Asia and there is no doubt about it. But they were great and potent nation which created the oldest country in Europe with more than 1300 years of history. After that in Europe came 9also from Asia) the tribes from which the modern European countries had been created!

[@gshugar]

BostonEm, if we have turkic origin, can you tell me why half of the bulgarian population have blue eyes, blond hair and the other half as well doesn't look like turks??? We don't look like Tatars, we don't look like Kazaks, we don't look like people from Turkey. Have you been in Bulgaria? Please come so you can see with your eyes...

[@Mark123USA]

But aren't bulgars slavs themselves?

[@alexanderrossovitch2585]

Bulgars are nothing to do with Slavs. Slavs were a sendentary people who descended from the Veneti and Sarmatians, while the Bulgars were a nomadic people from the steppe. They were genetically, linguistically, and culturally different.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Bulgars were Oghur Turks as all historians say

[@VariousArtis]

Actualy we were in one tsardom(not kingdom-try to called tzar(imperor)Peter The Great-king...of all russians, it sounds funny) many ceturies. Same country, army, culture(arheologicaly), language, letters...The founders of wallachia & moldavia are bulgarian feodals... May be, a little bit we are something like brothers...But i can't say that for the nort-west part of Romania

[@ive0804]

Never ever bulgarians to be brothers of Romanians. And you are so much ridiculous /stupid to say the founders of the Romanian principalities were bulgarian feudals.If Bulgaria was so great as you say why is it today a such a small country in size and population?

[@JIMY45GR]

proud to be bulgarian means proud to be a fugitive in fron of basil the samyel slaughter

[@aleksk4151]

bulgarians were the only people who defeated basil the bulgar-slayer in an open battle

[@SKa-tt9nm]

Tell that to Kaloyan the Roman slayer and to Tervel, the savior of Europe from the Arab hordes. Being Greek means being proud of getting your ass kicked by Simeon the Great and being proud that your emperor’s head was turned into Krum’s wine cup.

[@BGSoccerMagic]

200 000 rushians died 130 years ago so you can speak less turkish. Their bones are buried all over Bulgaria. I don't think there is another country in the world that has build so many monuments for soldiers from another country. The last time we faught agaisnt the russians was more than 10 centuries ago.

[@alexanderrossovitch2585]

Do the Russians remember when Volga Bulgaria prevented the annihilation of Muscovy? They do not.

[@SKa-tt9nm]

We fought the Russians in both world wars. You are a moron.

[@KINGGIBARA]

Response to BostonEM: A lot of scientists would sacrifice a hand if they could proof if it's true or not. How can you proof your Turkic theory? Must know that not a long time ago the history was based mostly on conclusions built of propaganda. Today the scientific element is starting to prevail and the latest discoveries shows that Turkic theory is getting weaker and it'll most probably be proved that the Bulges are much older tribe and much more civilized than we previously accepted.

[@Raao1]

ASSAN dinasty - there is nothing like this. But look there is Asen dinasty and there is notnhig romainian in that dinasty. Everybody tryies to get some of the fame from Bulgaria. We were turks, mongols...BULLSHITS! Read abouth Balhara(Baktria in greek) near Nepal and India.

[@crashoveryu]

Lol... Bulgarians... so funny...