Cozar People
Alba Bulgarica also known as Greater Banat, Vojvodina, Syrmia, Sirmium, Sarmatia, Savromat, Sabir, Alan, ˀln (אלן), Elicanum, Arsiya, Kutrigur Bulgaria, the Bogomils, the Bosniak Church, the Cathars, Cozar peoples, the Paulicians, the Tazigane, or Messiani were a Messianic Noahide community allied to the Khazars. It existed in the 7th to 12th century in greater Banat under the Ugrian rule of Avitohol, Aldarius, Gostun, Kurt, Bezmer, Galad, Sabriel, Salan, Gelu, Morut, Ajtony and Csanad. The community was succeeded by the Szekely Sabbatarians in the East and the Bosnian Church in the West and the Moravian Church in the North. The Sarmatian inhabitants were allied to the Romanians and to the Kalismani and thus were sometimes identified with the latter (Utigurs) as the Cozar people of Crisana, Galycivka and Cuzdrioara and vice-versa. While there is no evidence concerning a Proselyte Khazar Empire, there is plenty of evidence concerning the Proselytes of White Bulgaria. This community was almost certainly the Proselyte community referred to as Kuzari in Rabbinical literature.
The state is supposed to have begun with Aladarius' 3000 Kutrigur Bulgar-Huns who escaped decimation and migrated from the plain of Chiglamezei to Romania towards the end of the 6th century. There their remnant were known as Kurt's Aquila Szekley towards the end of the 7th century who initially resisted the arrival of the armies of the Utigur Khagan Csaba's son Edumen of Moravia. Edumen's Kalismani established a peace treaty with the Kutrigur Aquilas by inviting Galad of Vidin to power in the Greater area of Banat around 740CE. The success of Galad's dynasty caused Edumen's dynasty to leave Romania. Galad's son Sabriel (often misidentified with Bulan) converted to Noahide Judaism under the influence of thousands of Paulician Alevis brought into his lands by the Byzantines.
The Kuber Ugrians were their leaders until the mid 9th century when they lost influence in the First Bulgarian Empire which had become very Slavonic and so the Szekely-speaking Kutrigurs ruled their own practically independent Bogomil state of White Bulgarica in Banat until the official Bulgarian Church sided with the Byzantines against them. Their state surrendered to the Khazar Khan Joseph in the 920s and survived the Rus defeat of Khazaria until the 12th century when it was succeeded by the Bans of Bosnia and later by Counts of the Szekelys and the Hussites.
