Dulo clan

Coat of arms

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 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. As Kubrat is mentioned in the Orkhon inscriptions and if John of Nikiu's "Quetrades" is indeed Kubrat, it is also likely that they were somewhat related to the Ashina clan adopting its Tamga, though it seems that Dulo not only broke off from the royal Ashina clan, but became 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 (Tiele.^{[citation needed]}) 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 creation of the Great Bulgaria, and the emergence of Danube Bulgaria, Volga Bulgaria and Rus kaganate in the early 800 CE^{[citation needed]}.

Dulo Hill on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after the Bulgarian ruling dynasty of Dulo.^[2]

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 adopted as the national symbol of the Ukraine and Crimea.

Dulo dynasties

Rulers of Danube Bulgaria of the Dulo dynasty:

• Asparuh
• Tervel
• Kormesiy
• Sevar
• Telerig

See also

• List of Bulgarian monarchs

References

1. ^ Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople, "Historia syntomos, breviarium"
2. ^ Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica: Dulo Hill.