Voulgaris


Voulgaris, also transliterated as Bulgaris, is a Greek surname meaning Bulgarian.
Stefanos Voulgaris printed "family chronicles the Voulgaris family", a genealogical book written in Venetian Corfu, which cites a 15th-century testament of Stefanos Voulgaris claiming that the founding fathers of the family were Stefan Eleazar and Tervel, who were "kings of the Triballi". In these family chronicles the author claims Bulgarian royal roots and connects the roots of the "Voulgaris family of Saint Spyridon of Corfu" to the "barbarian peoples" from Volga river, who "finally settled in Moesia near the Haemus mountains".
The author Stefanos Voulgaris claimed that their family tree is well-traced and that the Voulgaris family of Corfu is unrelated to the Voulgaris family of the founder of Bulgari, Sotirios Voulgaris.
Notable people with the surname include: