Alogobotur ( bg, Aлогоботур) (died 926) was a

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noble and military commander during the reign of

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Simeon the Great Tsar Simeon (also Symeon) I the Great ( cu, цѣсар҄ь Сѷмеѡ́нъ А҃ Вели́къ, cěsarĭ Sỳmeonŭ prĭvŭ Velikŭ bg, цар Симеон I Велики, Simeon I Veliki el, Συμεών Αʹ ὁ Μέγας, Sumeṓn prôto ...

(893–926). He was probably a ''komit'' (duke) of one of

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's provinces. Some scholars indicate that the name is not a personal name, but a Bulgar military title ''alp

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'' (great hero) or ''alo bagatur'' (commander of heroes).

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argues that for some time Alogobotur led all of the Bulgarian armies. In 926, Alogobotur was in command of a campaign against the

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who were plotting with the Byzantines against the

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.Иречек, К. История на българите, 194. He was then to invade the newly established

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which was in alliance with the

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. The Serbs were easily defeated and fled to Croatia but the campaign in the later ended with a disaster: the Bulgarian army was completely defeated in the

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by the

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under their King

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in 926. Alogobotur most probably perished in the battle along with most of his soldiers.

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