Avitohol (153?–453?) is the first name in the '' Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans''. Little is known about him. According to the document he is from the Dulo clan and most probably was considered and respected as the forefather of the khans. Some researchers claim that Avitohol is

Attila Attila (, ; ), frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in March 453. He was also the leader of a tribal empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans, and Bulgars, among others, in Central and E ...

the Hun who was succeeded by his son

Ernak Ernak was the last known ruler of the Huns, and the third son of Attila. After Attila's death in 453 AD, his Empire crumbled and its remains were ruled by his three sons, Ellac, Dengizich and Ernak. He succeeded his older brother Ellac in 454 AD ...

or ''Irnik'' (the second name mentioned in the ''Nominalia''). Others suggests that Avitohol was a semi-legendary ruler who may have been either a descendant or an ancestor of Attila (see

Dulo clan The Dulo clan was a ruling dynasty of the Bulgars. The origins of the Bulgars and Dulo clan are not known precisely, and there are many theories about their origin. It is generally considered that they – or at least the elite caste – were in ...

Etymology

The very name Avitohol, according to the interpretation of the economic historian Dobrev, done with the help of the Pamiric languages, means "Son of the Deer" (from Avi - deer, "Tohol" - child). This interpretation is rejected by the linguist-turkist Prof. Ivan Dobrev as insubstantial, because the word "tochol" is a relatively late Arabic loan (طفل, ifl"nursing") in the Pamiric languages. His proposed interpretation of the name is avit-ohol, from the old Iranian pati- "gentleman, chief, lord; ruler, khan, and the old oğul, from the old Turkic oğul- "son, child". In fact, Dobrev repeats entirely the earlier opinion of J. Mykola and H. Houssig that Avitohol originates from the Hunno-Altai avit (ata), aba - ancestor (father, grandfather) and ogul - son, a descendant whose proto-Bulgarian form is ohol. So thinks B. Simeonov. The imaginary link with Atila is derived as an ata - father + il - tribe, i.e. Attila, in old Turkic: father of the tribe.

Honours

Avitohol Point on

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in the

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is named "after the legendary Khan Avitohol listed in the 8th Century Nominalia of the Bulgarian Khans, who laid the foundations of the Bulgarian statehood in AD 165." A super computer is named after Avitohol. It is managed by the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies from Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The installation is below the Institute of Mathematics and InformaticsAvitohol Supercomputer
Avitohol Supercomputer at BAS

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{{reflist Monarchs of the Bulgars Ancient Bulgars Huns Dulo clan

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