Armies of the Volga Bulgars & Khanate of Kazan: 9th-16th Centuries

by Viacheslav Shpakovsky and David Nicolle

Facing off against Byzantines, Arabs, Vikings, Turks, Mongols, and Russians, this steppe culture dominated Black Sea and Caucasus trade during Medieval times. The Bulgars were a Turkic people who established a state north of the Black Sea, and who showed similarities with the Alans and Sarmatians. In the late 500s and early 600s AD their state fragmented under pressure from the Khazars; one group moved south into what became Bulgaria, but the rest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782000798
• ISBN13: 9781782000792
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.1" x 9.6"