The Bulgars and the Steppe Empire in the Early Middle Ages

26 chapter one Th e role of Crimea being an important contact center-boundary and a possibility for acquaintance with the Other ...

the ‘outside’ other 27 Great Silk Road^45 and the headquarters/capitals of the khagans. Th is was a valid situation in relation ...

28 chapter one Sogdians did not cause great concern among the nomads and was accepted by them.^48 Th e Turks and Uighurs also ac ...

the ‘outside’ other 29 aff airs. “Regretfully”, he writes, “many Sogdians live among them [the Turks]... they train and instruct ...

30 chapter one It is the ‘domestic’ inscriptions that provide a good opportunity for interpretation of the concepts of the “step ...

the ‘outside’ other 31 Northern Bulgaria, where Omurtag had most probably seen the dawn for the fi rst time, was the former Roma ...

32 chapter one in Eastern Turkistan (in Kocho and Turfan, in particular) and their fi nal sedentarization.^63 China, being a bor ...

the ‘outside’ other 33 meadows and are hidden in the sands’ desert through which Heaven and Earth, e.g. the gods, separated the ...

34 chapter one elites took part. Th ose practices included marriages between the courts (or, the so-called diplomatic marriages) ...

the ‘outside’ other 35 Th is old “Scythian pattern” was used by all “barbarians” in steppe Eur- asia. It was not by accident tha ...

36 chapter one equally.^76 An element of rhetoric and didactics is certainly present in this statement, but it is also apparent ...

the ‘outside’ other 37 tions situated to the south, accepting certain elements typical for their otherness, which were not regar ...

38 chapter one (in the region of the present-day Debelt, Sozopol, Nessebar, Pomorie, etc. in Bulgaria, in particular) and inhabi ...

the ‘outside’ other 39 was an opportunity for soft ening the extreme features of the image of the sedentary Other. Th is way, th ...

40 chapter one I.2. About freedom and otherness and the signs and images of usness and otherness Th e human factor studied throu ...

the ‘outside’ other 41 sources provide examples eloquent enough. One of them comes from the works of Procopius of Caesarea (the ...

42 chapter one them think of themselves as far freer people, in comparison to their neighbors to the south. Part of these names- ...

the ‘outside’ other 43 point of view as they were totally dependent on unwritten oral law and tradition as passed on by the clan ...

44 chapter one with the sedentary people. In this case again, following the principle of the antithesis, they created the image ...

the ‘outside’ other 45 made many years later, in 837 A.D., and contains the evaluation of the Bulgar khan Persian (836–852) on t ...