{{More citations needed|date=February 2024}} {{Expand language|topic=|langcode=cs|otherarticle=Buljaři|date=November 2021}} The '''Bilars''' were a medieval (10th-13th centuries) Turkic tribal commonwealth in the Middle Volga. The Bilars are known to have founded the city of Bilär. Since the 10th century they were a part of Volga Bulgaria. In the 11th-14th centuries their land (today's Alexeyevsky District of Tatarstan) was one of Bulgaria's emirates or duchies.
==See also== 弊剌 ''Bìlà'' (< MC (ZS): /biᴇi<sup>H</sup>-lɑt̚/), a Turkic tribe identified by Chinese historiographers with either Alats<ref>Ouyang Xiu & Song Qi et al., ''New Book of Tang'', [https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E6%96%B0%E5%94%90%E6%9B%B8/%E5%8D%B7217%E4%B8%8B "vol. 217b"]; quote:「 又有駁馬者，或曰'''弊剌'''，曰遏羅支，……」; rough translation: "There was also the Piebald-Horse (tribe), also called '''Bìlà''', also called Èluózhī, [...]"</ref> or Basmyls.<ref>Du You et al., ''Tongdian'', [https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%80%9A%E5%85%B8/%E5%8D%B7200#%E6%8B%94%E6%82%89%E5%BD%8C "vol. 200"]. quote: 「 拔悉彌一名'''弊剌'''國，隋時聞焉。」; rough translation: "Báxīmí, also called '''Bìlà''', known since Suí time."</ref>
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