The Dulo Clan (鐵勒) or the House of Dulo was the name of the ruling dynasty of the early Maeotian Alans and subsequently the Hunno-Bulgars.
This was the clan of Kubrat who founded Old Great Bulgaria, and his sons Batbayan, Kotrag and Asparuh, the latter of which founded Danube Bulgaria.
Hunno-Bulgar legend traces the Dulo clan back to the tribe of a mighty Alan king from which Attila the Hun descended. The Nominalia of the Bulgarian Khans also confirms Attila's descent from the Dulo clan.
The Dulo clan name descends from the Tiele) tribe group which brought the Onoq out of the Turkic Kaganate. It was ethnic conflict between the Dulo and their Ashina cousins that appears as the main cause that tore apart the Western Turkic Kaganate, bringing about Khazaria, Maeotian Bulgaria, Danube Bulgaria, and Volga Bulgaria.
Dulo Hill on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after the Bulgarian ruling dynasty of Dulo.
Read more about Dulo Clan: Tamga, The Hunno-Bulgar Dulo Dynasty
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