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Sermesianoi
The Sermesianoi or, alternatively, Keramisians were a group of 70,000 Bulgars, Pannonian Avars and Byzantine Empire, Byzantine Christians from Syrmia. They fled in Byzantine region of Macedonia, following a successful revolt against the Avar Khaganate led by the Bulgars, Bulgar noble Kuber, around the year 680. In Avar Pannonia The Sermesianoi were a mixed population, which included the descendants of Roman Empire, Roman (Byzantine Empire, Byzantine) Christians, whom the Avars had captured in the Balkan Peninsula and settled in the region of Sirmium. Kuber had been made governor of the region by the Avar Khagan. Kuber's subjects called themselves ''Sermesianoi'', but the Byzantines referred to them as "Bulgars". They had preserved their Roman and Christian traditions, even though their ancestors had been taken to the Avar Khaganate some 60 years prior to Kuber's appointment. As the Sermesianoi never stopped dreaming of returning to their ancestors' homes, Kuber rose up i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuber
Kuber, (also Kouber or Kuver), was a Bulgar leader who, according to the ''Miracles of Saint Demetrius'', liberated a mixed Bulgar and Byzantine Christian population in the 670s, whose ancestors had been transferred from the Eastern Roman Empire to the Syrmia region in Pannonia by the Avars 60 years earlier.CurtaFine According to a scholarly theory, he was a son of Kubrat, brother of Khan Asparukh and member of the Dulo clan. Origins According to the Byzantine scholar, Theophanes the Confessor, Kubrat's (unnamed) fourth son, who left the Pontic steppes after his father's death around 642, became "the subject of the of the Avars in Avar Pannonia and remained there with his army". According to a scholarly theory, first proposed by the Bulgarian historian Vasil Zlatarski, Kuber was the fourth son of Kubrat, the Christian ruler of the Onogur Bulgars in the steppes north of the Black Sea. Kuber's story is continued in the second book of the ''Miracles of Saint Demetrius''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
