Abstract
In medieval writing sources, where an ethnic situation in the steppes of Eastern Europe in the middle of 10th-12th centuries AD is described, the incomprehensible names of the Bulgarians (“Black”, “Inner” and “Silver”) had appeared. Some researchers considered that these ethnic terms were connected semantically. Others do not see the connection between its. As a result of the conducted analysis it was succeeded to set, that term the “Black Bulgarians” designated the Bulgarians of North Azov Sea coast and it could have semantic values – “Main” or “Natural” Bulgarians. Word-combination “Inner Bulgarians” could mean the Bulgarians of the steppes of Don basin and Azov Sea coast and also it related to the left (western) wing of the primary union of the nomadic Bulgarians. The “Silver Bulgarians” was a denotation for the Bulgarians of East Azov Sea coast and Middle Volga basin and it had a semantic value “Rich”. So, these names for the Bulgarian tribes of Eastern Europe were not connected semantically. It can be explained to those, that these ethnic terms came to us from the different writing sources
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