Well the Roman emperor granted the title of Caesar to a Bulgarian in 705 which quickly turned into something that sounds like "tsar". A bit over 840 years bef

Well the Roman emperor granted the title of Caesar to a Bulgarian in 705 which quickly turned into something that sounds like "tsar". A bit over 840 years before the first Muscovy Tsar of Russia. The Ottoman sultan just took it for himself because he conquered the territory and the people living there.