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    Michael II Asen (Bulgarian: Михаил II Асен; c. 1239 – December 1256/January 1257) was emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria from 1246 to 1256 or 1257. He was the...
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    Ivan Asen II, also known as John Asen II (Bulgarian: Иван Асен II, [iˈvan ɐˈsɛn ˈftɔri]; 1190s – May/June 1241), was Emperor (Tsar) of Bulgaria from 1218...
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    The Asen dynasty (Bulgarian: Асеневци, Asenevtsi, Romanian: Asănești) founded and ruled a medieval Bulgarian state, called in modern historiography the...
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  • house of Romanov Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878–1918), the younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II Michael II Asen (1238/41–1256), tsar of Bulgaria...
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  • Kaliman Asen II (Bulgarian: Калиман Асен II), or commonly, but less accurately Koloman Asen II, ruled as tsar of Bulgaria for a short time in 1256. The...
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  • chronicles. Peter II Ivan Asen I Kaloyan Boril Ivan Asen II Kaliman Asen I Michael II Asen Kaliman Asen II Mitso Asen Konstantin Tih Ivaylo Ivan Asen III George...
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  • 1279–1280. Ivan Asen III was the son of Mitso Asen of Bulgaria and Maria of Bulgaria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria and Irene of Thessalonica. He...
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    names. Ivan Asen II (1218–1241) is sometimes recorded merely using his second name (Asen). His sons Kaliman Asen I (1241–1246) and Michael Asen I (1246–1256)...
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    Villehardouin refer to Asen's Wallachia, and the friar William of Rubruck divides Bulgaria during the realm of Michael II Asen into "Blakia—Assan's territory—and...
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  • important source for the history of the Second Bulgarian Empire. Tsar Ivan Asen II (1218–1241) is the first Bulgarian ruler from whose reign coins are preserved...
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    marry Elena Asenina in 1235, to forge an alliance with her father, Ivan Asen II, Emperor of Bulgaria, against the Latin Empire of Constantinople. According...
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    Michael Asen III (Bulgarian: Михаил Асен III, Mihail Asen III, commonly called Michael Shishman (Михаил Шишман, Mihail Šišman)), ruled as tsar of Bulgaria...
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    Mitso Asen (Bulgarian: Мицо Асен, Mico Asen), not Micho Asen (Мичо Асен, Mičo Asen), in Greek, Μύτζης, Mytzēs, was the tsar of Bulgaria from 1256 until...
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  • I Asen (1241–1246), the country was ruled by a regency. When he died, a regency council led by Irina Komnina ruled on behalf of King Michael II Asen from...
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  • Michael (Bulgarian: Михаил, Mihail) or probably more fully Michael Asen II was an emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria, the son of Emperor Constantine Asen I of...
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  • Michael Asen II, her son by the late Constantine Tikh, whom Ivaylo killed at the beginning of the revolt. Although Ivaylo defeated several of Michael...
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  • 1071–1078) Michael VIII Palaiologos (r. 1261–1282) Michael IX Palaiologos (r. 1294–1320) Michael II Asen (r. 1246–1256), tsar of Bulgaria Michael III Shishman...
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    emperor Robert of Courtenay in 1228, Ivan Asen II was considered the most probable choice for regent of Baldwin II. Theodore thought that Bulgaria was the...
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  • She ruled as regent from 1271 to 1279 on behalf of her minor son, Michael Asen II, who was made co-regent of her first spouse, and remained co-regent...
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    Japanese nobleman and regent (b. 1224) Kaliman Asen I, ruler of the Bulgarian Empire (b. 1234) Kaykhusraw II, ruler of the Sultanate of Rum (b. 1221) Matteo...
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    princess. She was the third wife of tsar Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria. She was the mother of tsar Michael Asen I of Bulgaria. Irene was daughter of despotēs...
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    and the capital Tarnovo remained under the control of the emperor Michael Asen II and his mother Maria Kantakouzena, which made him need to besiege it...
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  • 1322. Andronikos Asen was the son of Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen III and Irene, who was the sister of Byzantine emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos. His father...
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  • Tsar Nicholas II Boris-Michael (d. 907), knyaz of Bulgaria Michael II Asen (1238/41–1256), tsar of Bulgaria, son of Ivan Asen II Michael (1270–after 1302)...
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    Theodore II (Laskaris) defeat the invading Bulgarians near Adrianople. The young and inexperienced Tsar Michael II Asen (also mentioned Michael I Asen) is...
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    Bulgarian throne after the death of Michael II Asen, but the circumstances of his ascension are obscure. Michael Asen was murdered by his cousin, Kaliman...
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  • by Michael II Asen. 1256 Michael II Asen was killed. He was succeeded by Kaliman Asen II. Kaliman Asen II was killed. He was succeeded by Mitso Asen. 1257...
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  • Saint-Cloud, Saint-Cloud, France Assassination of Paul I on 23 March 1801, St Michael's Castle, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire Assassination of Spencer Perceval...
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    encounters with the Byzantines. He first defeated the former emperor Michael Asen II, who unsuccessfully tried to advance into Bulgaria with a Byzantine...
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  • during the reign of his brother-in-law, Michael II Asen. He married Anna-Teodora a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria with whom he had a daughter,...
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