Thus this civil strife was terminated.
But the gates of the temple of Janus were not yet to be closed.
Foreign war now commenced, and raged with unusual ferocity.

Six hundred miles east of Moscow, was the country of Bulgaria.

It comprehended the present Russian province of Orenburg, and was bounded on the east by the Ural mountains, and on the west by the Volga.

A population of nearly a million and a half inhabited this mountainous realm.

Commerce and arts flourished, and the people were enriched by their commerce with the Grecian empire.