Alcek (Bulgar: Altsikurs) is the name given to a hoarde of Bulgar cavalry who in the 7th century, settled with their families in the Matese mountains of Central Italy in the villages of Gallo, Sepino, Boiano, Isernia and others. For the people of Central Asia see Bulgars Bulgar language is an extinct language commonly considered Turkic but more recently Indo-Iranian Bulgar, or bulgarish is Yiddish word for Romanian dance bugarească (means Bulgarian cf. ...

History

Following the fall of the Roman Empire, Emnetzur, fifth of the many sons of Kubrat, with his hoarde of ethnic Tartars, fled hostilities in Pannonia, and crossed the Alps into Italy. Allied to the Lombards, they first settled in Ravenna, Italy. The group rode south a few decades later into the regions of Campania, and Molise. In 667 AD they entered into an agreement with Romuald I of Benevento, to provide military service to him in exchange for using the territory to raise livestock. For other uses, see Roman Empire (disambiguation). ... Khan Kubrat (632 - 651) THE NAME OF KHAN KUBRAT first appeared in Byzantine chronicles about 632 when his tribe, the Unogonduri, threw off the Turkic oppression. ... Tatars or Tartars is a collective name applied to the Turkic-speaking people of Europe and Asia. ... Position of the Roman province of Pannonia Pannonia is an ancient country bounded north and east by the Danube, conterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia. ... The Lombards (Latin Langobardi, from which the alternative name Longobards found in older English texts), were a Germanic people originally from northern Europe that entered the late Roman Empire. ... Campania is a region of Southern Italy, bordering on Lazio to the north-west, Molise to the north, Puglia to the north-east, Basilicata to the east, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. ... Molise is a region of central Italy, the second smallest of the regions. ... Romuald I (also spelled Romoald and in Italian Romoaldo), duke of Benevento (662-677), was the son of Grimoald, king of the Lombards. ...

The immigration resulted in a large Bulgarian integration with the local ethnic Samnite people. Their language, dress and cuisine spread to influence the customs of Southern Italy. Samnite warriors Samnium (Oscan Safinim) was a region of the southern Apennines in Italy that was home to the Samnites, a group of Sabellic tribes that controlled the area from about 600 BC to about 290 BC. Samnium was delimited by Latium in the north, by Lucania in the south...

Note

The Alcek tribal leader would always be refered to as Alzecone ('Top Alcek') in Italian. Wither historians are speaking about Emnetzur himself, or one of his successors is a matter for debate.

See also

• Eurasian Avars

The Eurasian Avars were a nomadic people of Eurasia who migrated into central and eastern Europe in the 6th century. ...

References

• Diacono, Paolo "Historia Langobardorum" Book 5, Chapter 29