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Group: Volga Bulgaria, or Volga-Kama Bulgaria
People: John II of Jerusalem
Topic: Syrian War, Third (Laodicean War or War of Berenice)
Location: Candia > Iráklion Iraklion Greece

Volga Bulgaria, or Volga-Kama Bulgaria

Years: 660 - 1241

Volga Bulgaria, or Volga–Kama Bolghar, is a historic Islamic Bulgar state that existsbetween the seventh and thirteenth centuries around the confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers, in what is now European Russia.

The population is mostly Bulgars, who had conquered Finno-Ugrics and Turkic speakers of the region.

The population is originally pagan, but Islam is adopted as the state religion in the early tenth century.