Batbayan

Bat Bayan
Ruler of Bulgars
Reign	667 to 690 CE
Predecessor	Kubrat
Father	Kubrat

Batbayan ruled the Khazarian Bulgars from 667 to 690 CE.[1][2] Theophanes and Nicephorus record his rule after the Khazars defeated the Bulgars and Old Great Bulgaria disintegrated in 668 CE.[3]

There is a scholarly theory that he may have been the same person as Bezmer[4] of the Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans who may have been also the first son of Kubrat.[5] He was a member of the Dulo clan, who after Kubrat's death in the mid-7th century ruled Old Great Bulgaria, but his rule lasted only three years.[6] Kevin Alan Brook calls him Bayan.[7] Batbayan would subsequently have ruled the Bulgars as a subject of the Khazar Khagan.

Sources

1. Dinkov, Stoyan (2018). Radev, Radoslav (ed.). Османо – Римска империя, българи и тюрки (in Bulgarian) (2 ed.). Sofia: Uncorp.org. Retrieved 21 August 2023. Каганите стават балтавари: Бат-Баян Дуло (667–690), Бу-Тимер (690–700), Сулоби (700–727), [...].
2. Boris Zhivkov, Khazaria in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, BRILL, 2015, ISBN 9004294481, p. 138 & 228-229.
3. Carl Waldman, Catherine Mason, Encyclopedia of European Peoples, Facts on File library of world history, Infobase Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1438129181. pp. 106-197.
4. Boris Zhivkov, Khazaria in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, BRILL, 2015, ISBN 9004294481, p. 228.
5. Florin Curta, Roman Kovalev as ed., "'The' Other Europe in the Middle Ages: Avars, Bulgars, Khazars and Cumans", Volume 2 of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450 - 1450, BRILL, 2008, ISBN 9004163891, p. 152.
6. Vasil Gyuzelev, The Proto-Bulgarians: Pre-history of Asparouhian Bulgaria, Sofia Press, 1979, p. 29.
7. Kevin Alan Brook, The Jews of Khazaria, Edition 3, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018, ISBN 1538103435, p. 15.