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    the Second Bulgarian Empire in 1185. The First Bulgarian Empire became known simply as Bulgaria since its recognition by the Byzantine Empire in 681. Some...
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    The Second Bulgarian Empire (Middle Bulgarian: Ц(а)рьство бл(ъ)гарское; Modern Bulgarian: Второ българско царство, romanized: Vtorо Balgarskо Tsarstvo)...
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  • Bulgarian Empire may refer to: First Bulgarian Empire, medieval Bulgarian state that existed from 681 to 1018 Second Bulgarian Empire, medieval Bulgarian...
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    The monarchs of Bulgaria ruled Bulgaria during the medieval First (c. 680–1018) and Second (1185–1422) Bulgarian empires, as well as during the modern...
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    AD. The Byzantine and First Bulgarian Empire continued to clash over the next century with variable success, until the Bulgarians, led by Krum, inflicted...
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    defeated the Bulgars, and Great Bulgaria disintegrated. Successor states are the First Bulgarian Empire and Volga Bulgaria. The etymology of the ethnonym...
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    The Bulgarian–Ottoman wars were fought between the kingdoms remaining from the disintegrating Second Bulgarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, in the...
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    next few years, as the Byzantine successor states, the Latin Empire, the Bulgarian Empire and the Seljuks of Iconium (whose territory also bordered Nicaea)...
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    Asparuh (also Ispor; Bulgarian: Аспарух, romanized: Asparuh or (rarely) Bulgarian: Исперих, romanized: Isperih) was а ruler of Bulgars in the second half...
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  • Second Bulgarian Empire and Bulgarian independence to an end. In 1393, the Ottomans captured Tarnovo, the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire, after...
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    the Empire of Thessalonica, the imperial government that sprang from Epirus, collapse following conflicts with Nicaea and the Second Bulgarian Empire and...
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    lands of Old Great Bulgaria and permanently invaded the Balkans in the late 7th century. They established the First Bulgarian Empire, victoriously recognised...
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    January 1967. Flag of Bulgaria (1971–1990). The indication of 681, the year of the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire by Asparukh, was added...
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    Tsar (Emperor) of the First Bulgarian Empire from 997 to 6 October 1014. From 977 to 997, he was a general under Roman I of Bulgaria, the second surviving...
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    The Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Bulgarian: Българска православна църква, romanized: Bûlgarska pravoslavna cûrkva), legally the Patriarchate of Bulgaria (Bulgarian:...
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    over Bulgaria from 893 to 927, during the First Bulgarian Empire. Simeon's successful campaigns against the Byzantines, Magyars and Serbs led Bulgaria to...
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    territories of Old Great Bulgaria and created the First Bulgarian Empire uniting with the numerous local Slavs. Bulgaria became officially Christian in the late...
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    series of conflicts between the Bulgarian Empire and the Byzantine Empire led to the gradual reconquest of Bulgaria by the Byzantines, who thus re-established...
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  • fought by Bulgaria since its creation in 681. Byzantine–Bulgarian wars Bulgarian–Latin wars Bulgarian–Ottoman wars Bulgarian–Hungarian wars Bulgarian–Serbian...
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    from the disintegrating Second Bulgarian Empire. In the late 19th century, Bulgaria was liberated from the Ottoman Empire, and by the early 20th century...
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  • First Empire may refer to: First British Empire, sometimes used to describe the British Empire between 1583 and 1783 First Bulgarian Empire (680–1018)...
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    developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th – 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School. It has been used in Bulgaria (with modifications...
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    The Bulgarian–Latin wars were a series of conflicts between the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396) and the Latin Empire (1204–61). The wars affected the...
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    Second Bulgarian Empire was formed in the 12th century. The period ended with the Uprising of Asen and Peter. The conquest of the First Bulgarian Empire by...
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  • The Seljuk Empire, or the Great Seljuk Empire, was a high medieval, culturally Turco-Persian, Sunni Muslim empire, established and ruled by the Qïnïq branch...
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    converted Bulgarians and the potential organization of a future Bulgarian Church under Rome's jurisdiction. On 13 November 866, the Bulgarian Knyaz received...
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  • Bulgarian Empire during certain periods in the Middle Ages and some parts in what is now eastern Albania were populated and ruled by the Bulgarians for...
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  • Pechenegs Old Great Bulgaria Volga Bulgaria, predecessor to the modern Chuvash Republic and the Chuvash people. First Bulgarian Empire, which started as...
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    Liberation of Bulgaria is the historical process as a result of the Bulgarian Revival. In Bulgarian historiography, the liberation of Bulgaria refers to those...
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    Їѡаннъ Владиславъ; Bulgarian: Иван/Йоан Владислав; died February 1018) served as the emperor (tsar) of the First Bulgarian Empire from approximately August...
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