# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/asparuh-of-bulgaria
# Generated: 2026-09-02T03:44:48.051Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/asparuh-of-bulgaria"
name: "Asparuh of Bulgaria"
slug: "asparuh-of-bulgaria"
description: "The Bulgar khan who carved out a state on the Danube in 681 and made it stick — the First Bulgarian Empire, born from steppe war-bands meeting Byzantine borderlands."
tagline: "Bulgarian ruler"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Asparukh_of_Bulgaria.JPG"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "640"
deathDate: "701"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.04264
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Medieval Era"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Аспарух"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Asparuch"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Asparuh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Aszparuh bolgár kán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "أسباروخ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Asparuh led his people in the second half of the 7th century, a time when the eastern Roman frontier was porous and the steppe tribes were pushing west. In 681 he founded the First Bulgarian Empire, planting a polity that would outlast him by centuries. The name appears in sources as Ispor or Isperih as well, testament to the fluid orthography of early medieval chroniclers. What he built became the framework for a kingdom that would challenge Byzantium for generations.