Suar or Suvar principality was a medieval statelet subject to

Volga Bulgaria Volga Bulgaria or Volga–Kama Bulgaria (sometimes referred to as the Volga Bulgar Emirate) was a historical Bulgar state that existed between the 9th and 13th centuries around the confluence of the Volga and Kama River, in what is now Europea ...

. The principality appeared around the 940s CE. The population was a mix of Turkic Sabirs and local Turkic- and Uralic-speaking tribes such as the Mari. The capital city was Suar, whose ruler was titled "Bäk" (cf.

Khazar The Khazars ; 突厥可薩 ''Tūjué Kěsà'', () were a nomadic Turkic people who, in the late 6th century CE, established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, an ...

"Bek"; Turkish "

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".) In 975 the principality was absorbed by Volga Bulgaria. From the 11th to 13th centuries, it was a semiautonomous province, until the

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conquered the state.

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