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Volga Bulgaria, or Volga-Kama Bulgaria
Volga Bulgaria, or Volga–Kama Bolghar, is a historic Islamic Bulgar state that existsbetween the seventh and thirteenth centuries around the confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers, in what is now European Russia.
The population is mostly Bulgars, who had conquered Finno-Ugrics and Turkic speakers of the region.
The population is originally pagan, but Islam is adopted as the state religion in the early tenth century.
Member Cities
- Bolgar Tatarstan Russia Capital
- Astrakhan' > Astrachan' Astrakhanskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Chersonesos Khersons'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Kalka River, Battle of the Donets'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Kan'ov > Kaniv Cherkas'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Karakorum Arhangay Mongolia Location
- Kazan' Tatarstan Russia Location
- Kiev > Kijev Kyyivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Lemberg > L'vov L'vivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Novgorod Novgorodskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Ovruc Zhytomyrs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Peuce Island Tulcea Romania Location
- Polotsk > Polatsk Vitsyebsk Belarus Location
- Samosdelka > Atil Astrakhanskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Sudak > Soldaia Krym Ukraine Location
- Volgograd (Stalingrad) Volgogradskaya Oblast Russia Location