За чувашите и тяхното Княжество Суар (или Сувар) – от Ина Мирова

The principality appeared around the 940s CE. The population was a mix of Turkic Sabirs and local Turkic- and Uralic-speaking tribes such as the Mari. The capital was city of Suar. The ruler of Suar went by the title „Bäk“ (cf. Khazar „Bek“; Turkish „Beg“.)

In 975 the principality was absorbed by Volga Bulgaria. From the 11th-13th century it became a semi-autonomous province of Volga Bulgaria, until the conquest of that state by the Mongols.

Old Bulgaria broke up in the second half of the 7th century after a series of successful Khazar invasions. Some of its population fled north, to the Volga-Kama region, where they established Volga Bulgaria, which eventually became extremely wealthy: its capital being the 4th largest city in the world. Shortly after that, the Suar Duchy was forced to become a vassal state of Khazaria. About half a century later, the Suars took part in the Arab–Khazar wars of 732–737. The adoption of Islam in the early tenth century in Volga Bulgaria led to most of its people (including the Chuvash) to embrace the religion

Now the Suvar are Known as Chuvash in the Republic of Chuvashia , neighbouring Tatarstan , the legitimate Heir of Volga Bulgaria .

According to one theory, the Chuvash may be descended from the Volga Bulgars.

They have been subjected to much infusion and influence, not only from Russian and Turkic peoples, but also from neighboring Finnic tribes, with whom they were persistently and mistakenly identified for centuries, perhaps aided by the fact that the Chuvash language is a highly divergent form of Turkic, and was not easily recognized as such, Chuvash is classified, alongside the extinct Bulgar language, as the only remaining member of the Oghuric branch of the Turkic language family.

The ancient religion of the Suvar-Bulgars, traditions and holidays connected with it were in close relations with the Agricultural cycles.

The Suvar-Bulgars’ religion is a system of outlooks, the essence of which is the belief in the existence of one god. It appeared thousands of years ago and is closely connected with the religions of ancient peoples of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Caucasus, Black Sea region, the Volga region, Western Asia, Central Asia, India and Iran — the countries, where the Suvar-Bulgars lived in earlier times and came in contacts with the natives. The cultures of the peoples mixed, and that is why the religion of Suvar-Bulgars is very close to the religion of the peoples, living in these countries.

The following world monotheistic religions as Christianity, Islam and Judaism were prevailing religions in the leading countries of the world. And as far as the other countries are concerned, their ethnic religions were called ‘Paganism’ by the representatives of the above mentioned religions. For the peoples, getting the monotheistic religions, their former ethnic traditions and ceremonials were forbidden. This was the reason of the fact, that the natives forgot their ancient religions. If we investigate the etymology of the russian word ‘язычество’ (the English for ‘paganism’), we’ll see that it came from the Old Church Slavonic ‘иазыцы’ (the English for ‘peoples’) and didn’t have any negative meaning. But later on the meaning of the word changed and became negative.