For Paganos 1's date (772), see Grumel, Chronologie, p. 388. After the flight of the Bulgar ruler Sabinos 1 (whose policy of making peace with the Romans was rejected by the Bulgars), Paganos 1 was chosen by the Bulgars as their new ruler: Theoph. AM 6254 (ἔστησαν δὲ οἱ Βούλγαροι ἕτερον κύριον ἑαυτῶν, ὀνόματι Παγάνον) (narrated under 763; in fact Paganos 1 succeeded Toktos 1 in 772). Later Paganos 1, the ruler of Boulgaria (ὁ κῦρις Βουλγαρίας) sought an interview with the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7); when this was granted Paganos 1 went with his boyars (μετὰ τῶν βοϊλάδων αὐτοῦ) and met Konstantinos 7 and Sabinos 1, where they were rebuked for the expulsion of Sabinos 1 and for their unruliness, but a peace was, in appearance, agreed: Theoph. AM 6256 (narrated under 765), cf. Nic. Brev. de Boor 70 (unnamed Bulgar ruler, who met Konstantinos 7 and Sabinos 1, also narrated under 765). Probably identical with Kampaganos 1 (cf. Runciman, First Bulgarian Empire, p. 39). See also Rochow, Theophanes, p. 184.

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