List of Bulgarian monarchs
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Early Bulgar leaders bore the title of baltavar (balt-avar), which literally means "ruler of Avars". Later they acquired the title Khan and Khagan, still later the title tsar.
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List of Bulgarian rulers
Legendary rulers
- Avitokhol (Attila) (153-453) (according to history, (445-453)
- Ernakh (453-603) (according to history, (453-503)
Historical persons
the Dulo clan (? - 740, 803 - 997)
At times, the reign in the Bulgar lands was split.
- Kubrat (605-665)
- Batbayan (665-668)
- Asparukh (668-701)
- Tervel (701-721)
- Kormesiy (721-738)
- Sevar (738-753)
- Krum (803-814)
- joint rule of Omurtag (815-831), Dukum (814-815) and Dizewg (815)
- joint rule of Malamir (831-852), Presian (836-852)
- Boris I Michael (852-889)
- Vladimir of Bulgaria (889-893)
- Simeon I of Bulgaria (Simeon the Great) (893-May 27 927)
- Peter I of Bulgaria (927-969)
- Boris II of Bulgaria (969-972)
- Roman I of Bulgaria (972-997) (joint rule with Samuil 976-997)
House of Comitopuli (976-1018)
- Samuil (997-1014) (joint rule with Roman 976-997)
- Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria (October 1014 - August 1015)
- Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria (1015-1018)
- Peter (II) Delyan of Bulgaria (1040-1041)
- Constantin Bodin (Peter (III)) (1072)
House of Asen (the Asenites) (1186-1277, 1279-1280)
- joint reign of Teodor (I) Peter (IV) (1186-1197) and Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria (1186-1196)
- Kaloyan (1197-1207)
- Boril of Bulgaria (1207-1218)
- Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria (1218-1241)
- Kaliman I of Bulgaria (1241-1246)
- Michael II Asen of Bulgaria (1246-1256/1257)
- Kaliman II of Bulgaria (1256/1257)
- Mico (1256/1257)
- Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria (1257-1277)
- Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria (1279-1280)
- Ivailo the Swineherd (1277-1279)
House of Terter (1280-1292, 1300-1323)
Mongolian monarch in Bulgaria 1298-1300
House of Terter (1280-1292, 1300-1323)
- Michael III Shishman (1323-1330)
- Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria(1330-1331)
- Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria (1331-1371)
- Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria (1371-1393)
- Ivan Stratsimir of Bulgaria (1371-1396)
House of Battenberg (1879-1886)
- Alexander I Joseph (April 4 1879 - September 7 1886)
House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1887-1946)
Monarchy abolished in 1946