Ichirgu-Boil
Itschirgu-Boil ( Bulgarian Ичиргу боил , Ancient Greek τοω ητξιργου βοιλαν) or Tschargobil (Bulgarian чрьгобыля) was a high medieval Bulgarian title. The third man in the Bulgarian state, after the Khan (later Knjaz and Tsar ) and the Kawkhan , was called Ichirgu-Boil .
The Ichirgu-Boil was the administrator of the capital and commander of the capital's garrison in times of war . However, in peacetime he also took on diplomatic missions.
origin
According to Professor Weselin Beschewliew, itschirgu comes from Old Turkish and means internal or internal . Others translate it with the Caucasian word itschirho (Russian ичирхо), which in turn means archer.
In the first Bulgarian empire the members of the highest social class were called boil until Christianization in the 9th century , afterwards and during the second Bulgarian empire Boljar or Boljarin . Boljar as well as boil were hereditary titles (see Boljars ).
The title goes back to a reform of the Greater Bulgarian Empire carried out by Khan Kubrat in the 7th century.
Literature and individual references
- Wesselin Beschevliew : Прабългарски епиграфски паметници. Издателство на Отечествения фронт, София 1981
- Constantin Jireček : History of the Bulgarians , Georg Olm Verlag, 1977 (Orig .: Verlag von F. Tempsky, Prague, 1876), ISBN 3-487-06408-1 .
- ^ Constantin Jireček: History of the Bulgarians
Web links
- Ichirguboila (English) in the dictionary of the Museum of Veliki Preslaw