Suar or Suvar principality was a medieval statelet subject to
Volga Bulgaria.
The principality appeared around the 940s CE. The population was a mix of Turkic
Sabirs and local
Turkic
Turkic may refer to:
* anything related to the country of Turkey
* Turkic languages, a language family of at least thirty-five documented languages
** Turkic alphabets (disambiguation)
** Turkish language, the most widely spoken Turkic language
* ...
- and
Uralic
The Uralic languages (; sometimes called Uralian languages ) form a language family of 38 languages spoken by approximately 25million people, predominantly in Northern Eurasia. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian ...
-speaking tribes such as the
Mari. The capital was city of
Suar. The ruler of Suar went by the title "Bäk" (cf.
Khazar "Bek"; Turkish "
Bey".)
In 975 the principality was absorbed by
Volga Bulgaria. From the 11th-13th century it became a semi-autonomous province of Volga Bulgaria, until the conquest of that state by the
Mongols.
List of known rulers
* Ghabdulla bine Miqail (Abd'ullah ibn Miqa'il)
* Talib bine Axmad (Talib ibn Ahmad)
* Mo'min bine Axmad (Mu'min ibn Ahmad)
Bibliography
{{TES, Suar bäklege
History of Tatarstan
States and territories established in the 940s