area of Vidin had been autonomous under ineffective Bulgarian overlordship, and was ruled successively by Yakov Svetoslav (died 1276), Shishman (died between...

Bulgarian despot Shishman of Vidin failed to repel the Serb forces, and accepted Serbian suzerainty, although in practice, Shishman continued to be independent...

Michael Shishman's policy by forming an alliance with Serbia. Born between 1280 and 1292, Michael Shishman was the son of the despot Shishman of Vidin by an...

Enumerated after Ivan Shishman (1371–1395). He is sometimes alternatively referred to as Shishman II, or (also counting Shishman of Vidin, who did not reign...

invaded Shishman's territory and took Vidin, forcing Shishman to flee across the Danube to the territory of the Golden Horde. Soon after, Shishman was re-installed...

Bulgaria and in 1365 seized the territories around Vidin, which he reorganised into a province called the Vidin province, and from then on treated Bulgaria as...

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and were pursued back to Vidin by the Serbs. Milutin devastated Vidin and the rest of Shishman's dominion, making Shishman take refuge on the other side...

rivalry between the holder of Vidin, Ivan Sratsimir, Ivan Aleksandar's sole surviving son by his first wife, and Ivan Shishman, the product of Aleksandar's...

ruled 1356–1397 in Vidin). Belaur of Vidin, 1336 (Shishman dynasty). Constantine II of Bulgaria (b. early 1370s, ruled 1397–1422 in Vidin and in exile). Darman...

over Stefan Lazarević of Serbia, the Turnovo Bulgaria of Ivan Shishman, and the Vidin Despotate of Ivan Sratsimir. The Ottoman Empire had become one...

George II of Bulgaria. The Terter dynasty was succeeded by the Shishman noble dynasty of Vidin, also of partial Cuman origin. Aldimir (Eltimir) Ivan Dragushin...

rulers Vladislav I and Radu I and the Bulgarian Tsars from Tarnovo and Vidin, Shishman and Ivan Sratsimir were very tensed, the latter being themselves in...

subordinated to the government. In Bulgaria the powerful House of Shishman ruled over the Vidin Province in the west, while in the east Balik established a...

Michael Shishman (r. 1323–1330) who, before his accession to the throne, was despot of Vidin. However, Michael Shishman's father was named Shishman, not...

stop Serbia's growing power but in 1330 Bulgarian Emperor Michael III Shishman was defeated by Stefan Dečanski in the battle of Velbazhd. According to...

Bulgaria on Pietro Vesconte's 1321 nautical chart Flag of the Shishman dynasty west of Vidin on a map (dated 1325–1340) by Angelino Dalorto Replica of Dalorto's...

relatives or close associates of the Bulgarian despotēs Shishman of Vidin, the founder of the Shishman dynasty of Bulgarian rulers, as he proceeded to attack...

and art and the traditions that he left to his sons and successors Ivan Shishman and Ivan Stratsimir in that direction. Patriarch Theodosius of Tarnovo...

Bulgarian-seized towns in northern Thrace. The energetic despot of Vidin, Michael Shishman, was elected emperor the next year; he immediately turned on the...

The Hungarian occupation of Vidin was a period in the history of the city and region of Vidin (Hungarian: Bodony), today in northwestern Bulgaria, when...

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1290s Serbia expanded towards the vicinity of Vidin. Threatened by Serbian expansion, Shishman of Vidin failed to repel the brothers forces, and accepted...

17 February 1371. He was succeeded by his sons Ivan Sracimir in Vidin and Ivan Shishman in Tarnovo, while the rulers of Dobruja and Wallachia achieved...

Bulgarian Empire (followed by other frontier regions of Bulgaria such as Vidin and Velbuzhd) in the 1340s under Balik (member of the Bulgarian-Cuman dynasty...

Bulgarian tsar Ivan Shishman had lost Nicopolis — his temporary capital — to the Ottomans, while his brother, Ivan Stratsimir, still held Vidin but had been...

horseback, with inscription "Michael Tsar". Many of the coins of Michael Shishman (1323–1330) were later re-minted as coins of Ivan Alexander (1331–1371)...

numbered 2,000 heavily armed footmen and 1,000 horsemen. In 1330 Michael III Shishman raised a 15,000-strong army to face the Serbs but was defeated at the battle...

throne in 1280. Shishman was either a close relative or a brother of George Terter I. Shishman may have established his authority over the Vidin region as early...

Tsar Ivan Shishman, whose capital was at Veliko Tarnovo (Tirnovo), requesting him to allow John V to pass, although Shishman did not control Vidin at the...