Kanasubigi
Introduction '''Kanasubigi''' (), possibly read as ''Kanas Ubigi'' or ''Kanas U Bigi'', was a title of the early Bulgar rulers of First Bulgarian Empire. Omurtag and his son Malamir are mentioned in inscriptions as Kanasubigi.The title ''khan'' for early Bulgarian rulers is an assumed one, as only the form ''kanasubigi'' or "kanasybigi" is attested in stone inscriptions. Historians presume that it includes the title ''khan'' in its archaic form ''kana'', and there is a presumptive evidence suggesting that the latter title was indeed used in Bulgaria, e.g. the name of one of the Bulgars' ruler Pagan occurs in Patriarch Nicephorus's so-called breviarium as  (''Kampaganos''), likely an erroneous rendition of the phrase "Kan Pagan". Among the proposed translations for the phrase ''kanasubigi'' as a whole are ''lord of the army'', from the reconstructed Turkic phrase ''*sü begi'', paralleling the attested Old Turkic ''sü baši'', and, more recently, "(ruler) from God", from the Indo-European ''*su-'' and  ''baga-'', i.e. ''*su-baga'' (an equivalent of the Greek phrase , ''ho ek Theou archon'', which is common in Bulgar inscriptions). Another presumption is that the title means the ''great khan''. This titulature presumably persisted until the Bulgars adopted Christianity. Some Bulgar inscriptions written in Greek and later in Slavonic refer to the Bulgarian ruler respectively with the Greek title ''archon'' or the Slavic title ''knyaz''.
See also * Kavkhan* Khagan
References ===Bibliography===*Hanswilhelm Haefs, ''Das goldene Reich der Pamir-Bulgaren an Donau und Wardar'' (p. 120),