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Bulgarian History up to the 12th century through the view of the ancient authors, Nikolay Ivanov Kolev, III. Edition. ISBN 978-3-00-048101-7, GUTA-N Publishing House, Sofia, 2026, 996 pages,128 of them are in color.

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Table of Contents

Foreword

A word of praise for Gancho Tsenov
Works of Gancho Tsenov (1870 - 1949)

A little geophysics and genetics
A Brief Guide to the Events Leading to the Expansion of the Bulgarian State in the Balkans
The peoples who expanded Bulgaria into the Balkans were the Huns

Kubrat 604 - 664
Great Bulgaria. The Bulgarians are the Unogundurs and Kotragi, who are a Hunnic people
From Thrace to Hindu Kush and back to the Caucasus and Thrace
The Cimmerian brothers Utigur and Kutrigur
Bulgarians are descendants of Achilles" Myrmidons
The Bulgarians are the descendants of the Peonians, who are the descendants of Achilles" Myrmidons
- From Galata to Crimea, the Bosphorus Empire
- The livelihood of myrmidons
- From Galata to Central and Western Europe
Achilles" father - ruler of myrmidons and dolopes, the Dulo clan
Romans conquer Peonia in Epirus, migration of survivors along the Middle Danube, Pannonia is "relocated" Peonia
Masageti or Besigeti - Huns - Bulgarians
Sarmatians - Huns - Bulgarians
The relationship between ancient Scythians, Getae, Huns and Bulgarians
The relationship between the ancient Scythians and the Parthians - today"s Persians
The relationship between ancient Scythians with Bactria and Sogdiana
Hunnu
Khazars and Bulgarians, Khazar state
- 4th century BC to the 7th century, the language of the Khazars
- Fall of Sogdiana in 565. Resettlement of Euthalites in Khazaria and Bulgaria
- Relocation of Great Bulgaria to the West and South under the pressure of Khazaria
- Geographical location of Khazaria
- State structure of Khazaria
- Judaism in Khazaria
- Khazaria, Bulgaria and Byzantium
- End of the Khazar state
Or in the summary

The Getae or Goths before the reign of Attila

Thracians - Getae - Dacians, Goths: Besi-Goths, Ostro-Goths, Vandals, Gepids - Slavs
How did the Getae become Goths and the Goths Slavs?
The Getae are not Germans, therefore the Goths are not Germans
Getae migrations to the Baltic and their return
Legends about the origin of the Huns from the Getae
Before the Trojan War in 1183 BC
Trojan War, a war between Thracians and Greeks in coalition with other Thracians in 1183 BC
The defeat of the Cyrus Persians at in 530 BC
Migration of the Thracians from Asia to Etruria under King Cyrus
The defeat of the Persians at Cyrus in 530 BC
Migration of the Mysians, called Bolgi, from Thrace to Ireland under Cyrus
Darius" campaign against the Getae in 513-512 BC
Xerxes" failed attempt to finish the work of Darius in 480 BC
Perdiccas II, Philip the Great, Alexander the Great and the Getae in 432-323 BC
The successor of Alexander the Great and the Getae
Burevista and the Romans
The poet Ovid"s account of the population of the Black Sea in the vicinity of the Danube around the Nativity of Christ
Trajan, Gallienus, Aurelian and the Getae
About the culture of the old Geth
Return of the Ostrogoths to the Balkans
- Summary of the Gothic invasions of the Balkans from 238 to 337
- Old authors on the Gothic invasions of the Balkans from 238 to 337
- Constantine the Great and the Goths, the religion of the Goths became the state religion
Neighbours of the Goths
Civil war in the Gothic state
The Huns conquer the Ostrogoths
Visigoths settle in Mysia and become Christians
The Wesegoths revolt. Death of Emperor Valens on 9 August 378
Theodosius" war with the Visigoths and the treaty with them
The Fate Of The Bessigetaes: From Constantinople, through Thessaly, Hellas, and Hadria to Rome (395 - 410)
The Besigites conquered Rome on 24 August 410, 1163 years after its foundation
The Besigetaes Settled In Gaul, Then In Spain, And Founded Their Own Principality
The Pogrom against the Arian Goths in Thessalonica shortly after 413

Huns-Bulgarians, the Empire of Attila

Who is Attila?
Joint reign of Bleda and Attila
Attila, wars
Envoys, capital of Attila, conspiracy against him
Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, 451
The Death of Attila
The heritage of Attila
- The Battle of the Nations in Pannonia at the River Neda
- The Gepids settle in Dacia
- Huns, Alans and other peoples settle this side of the Danube
- Minor Goths inhabit the Nikopol area
- And which peoples remained or settled in Pannonia?
Relations between the Huns and Persia
- The wars of 305 - 313
- The wars in 395
- The wars of Hedigerd II in 438 - 457
- The wars of Peroz with the Huns in 459 - 484
- Christianity in Persian Lasika in 526, a new Hunnic intervention in Asia
- Boa, Persian princess and queen of the Huns
- Whether Irnik and Wallach are not the same person?

Ostrogoths and Bulgarians after the death of Attila

The Ostrogoths ravage Illyricum. Theodoric - hostage in Constantinople
Ostrogoths war again with Huns, death of Valamir
Ostrogoths at war with Germanic peoples, the return of Theodoric from Constantinople
The First Battle of Theodoric the Great in 472
The Ostrogoths settled within Illyricum, Macedonia and Thessaly
Theodorich Tiudimirov in Mysia
Goths in their quest for power in Constantinople
Who is Mundo?
The Goths take over Sirmium
War against Sabinian in 505, Mundo in alliance with Theodoric the Great
Ode to the Bravery of Goths and Bulgarians
Theodoric reigned in Italy and Spain
After the death of Theodoric the Great Mundo switched to the side of Byzantium in 529
Suppression of the Nika rebellion in 532

Early Christianity in the Balkans; Bulgarian alphabet; Religious wars

Paul the Apostle
The Greeks and early Christianity
Spread of Christianity in the Balkans
Christianity under the Huns?
Constantine the Great and the Council of Nicaea
The Council of Sofia, splitting the churches
Julian the Apostate
Linear A - Linear B - Glagolitsa
Coptic alphabet - Cyrillic alphabet
Phoenician-Etruscan alphabet - Greek, Latin alphabet
The Alphabet of the Getae, the Genius of Urfil
Christianity on the northern coast of the Black Sea
The struggle of the Greeks against the Arians
The Religious Civil War, Vitalian
- Comes Marcellinus on the rebellion of Vitalian
- Theophanes the Confessor on the rebellion of Vitalian
- John Malala on the rebellion of Vitalian
- John of Antioch on the rebellion of Vitalian
- Georgi Kedrin and Ioan Skilitsa on the rebellion of Vitalian
- Attempt to convert the Bosporan Bulgarians
Archdiocese First Justiniana
- The Life of Justinian, written in Illyrian with Illyrian letters
- Justinian"s Novella of 14 April 535
- The Novella of Justinian of 17 March 545
- Summary of events leading to the creation of Justinian Prima
- International Recognition of Justinian Prima
- Transfer of Christianity to Russia
Questionnaire

Justinian"s policy towards Kutriguri and Utiguri and the Pannonian Hun-Avars

Goths ask Justinian for a bishop in 548, envoys
Civil war in Great Bulgaria between Kutriguri and Utiguri
The march of the Kutrigurian ruler Zabergan through Thrace to Constantinople in 548
The Kutrigurs fought at Chersonesos and in Hellas
Slav allies of Zabergan. Their attacks in 548, 549 and 550
Again a quarrel between Kutriguri and Utiguri provoked by Justinian
Pannonian Hun-Avars, conquerors of Gepids, Kutrigurs and Utigurs

Avars and Bulgarians: avaro-bulgarian alliance

Ogori, Hun, Wari, Avari, Bayowari
The barbarians defeated the Severians in 464 and drove them from their lands
Bulgarians are at latest from the 4th century in the Balkans
The Avars were a Hunnic and Bulgarian people by descent. Settlement in Mysia
Avars subjugate Utigurs and Kutrigurs
Settlement of Bulgarians and Avars in Pannonia
Other peoples from Hun and Var joined the Avars in Pannonia
The First Avar War against Byzantium in 539 - 545
- Chalcidian War in 539
- Constantinople War in 542 - 543
Slavic attack on Niš 550
The Second Avar War against Byzantium in 558 - 559
Sensation for the Byzantine public - Avar delegation in Constantinople
Avars and Slavs
Settlement of the Peloponnese with Slavs in 581 - 585. The Avar war against the Slavs of the Transdanubia in 578 - 582
Avars take over Sirmium
- Preparing for war in 578
- Bayan buys time with negotiations to complete Sava bridge
- Emperor"s failed attempt to make peace with Bayan
- The Empire lost Sirmium in 582
Permanent settlement of Slavs in the Peloponnese in 582
First attack on Thessaloniki by Slavs led by Hatsun in 582
Conquest of Augusta, a fortress at the mouth of the Ogosta River, west of Oryahovo and Viminacium, in 582
Conquest of Singidunum in 583
Conquest of Anchialos in 584
Invasion of the Slavs to the Long Wall in 581 - 584
Second attack on Thessaloniki by Avars, Bulgarians and Slavs in 584
Third attack on Thessaloniki in 586 - reconnaissance campaign
Conquest of Bononia (Vidin) in 587
The return of the Avars to present-day Northern Bulgaria in 587
Re-invasion of the Avars in Thrace and their defeat in 587
Near Adrianople to Constantinople in 592
Priscus" campaign against the Slavs across the Danube in 593
Bulgarians near Nove, today Svishtov, defeat in 597 Roman legion
The commander Priscus replaces Peter and marches across the Danube in 597
Conquest of Dalmatia in 599 by the Avars, arrival of the Croats in Dalmatia
Turks around the Alps? What are these Turks, and do they have anything at all in common with the Altaic Turks?
Avar and Roman troops at Tomi in 600
Mauricius orders Comentiolus to hand over the rebellious Roman army to the Avars. Awars again in Thrace in 600
The defeat of the Avars at Viminacium in 601
War of the Avars and Romans against the Slavs in 602
Fourth attack on Thessaloniki in 602 by the awars
The treacherous deed of the Avar Khagan in 619
Peace with the Avars and campaign against Persia in 621 - 622
Western Slavs take advantage of the Avars" campaign against Constantinople in 623
March of Avars, Bulgarians and Slavs against Constantinople in 626
- Description of Patriarch Nikephoros
- Description according to "The Paschal Chronicle"
- Description of Theophanes the Confessor
Bulgarians fought their independence from the Avars
- Unsuccessful attempt of the Bulgarians to take the Avar throne in 632
- The successful uprising of Kubrat in 634
- The relationship between Croats and Bulgarians
- Settlement of Bulgarians in Italy in 663
Fifth attack on Thessaloniki by Slavs in 645 - 647
The uprising of Kuber against the Avars and the expansion of Bulgaria to the Bitola field after 679. Sixth attack on Thessaloniki
Avars and Bulgarians in Pannonia and their western neighbours
- Langobards and Bulgarians
- Franks and Avars
The war of the Arabs against Constantinople in 673 - 680
Peace between Avars and Byzantines in 680
The Franks fought a devastating war with the Avars under Charlemagne in 791 - 799
Fortification of the Avar capital
Bulgarians completely destroyed the Avars under Krum in 803 - 814

Communications of the old authors about the Bulgarians in the Balkans

Introduction
The oldest records of Bulgarians in Europe
- The Trojan War
- The Macedonians, the greatest propagators of Hellenic culture, are not Greeks but Thracians, descendants of the Pelasgians
- Formation of Getae and Hun ethnic groups around the time of Alexander
- Philip and Alexander of Macedonia, Thrako-Illyrians rejected to the Ocean
- The Gauls return from the Ocean to the Balkans and Asia Minor
- The Legends of the Origin of the Bulgarians, recorded by Spyridon of Gabrovo
- Gods of the Bulgarians before Christianity recorded by Dobri Voynikov
The oldest records of the Bulgarians in Asia
The First Century
The Second Century
The Third Century
The Fourth Century
The Fifth Century
- Bulgarians living in Thrace and threatened Constantinople in 447
- Bulgarian army recruited against the Goths in 488
- Bulgaria controlled the area from the Tisza River to Kiev after 491
- War of Byzantium for the liberation of Thrace from the Bulgarians. Major victory of the Bulgarian army near the Cherna River in 495 - 499
- Bulgarians settle in Italy
The Sixth Century
- Massive Bulgarian invasion of the Balkans in 501 - 503
- Bulgarians and Goths jointly fought under Vitalian against Byzantium in 513 - 518
- 12 000 Bulgarian cavalry came from Great Bulgaria to Pannonia in 526
- Battles between Bulgarians and Byzantines at the Yantra River in 535
- Mundo captured the city of Salona in 536 for Byzantium
- War of Avaria and Bulgaria against Byzantium in 539
- Mundo passes into the service of Byzantium as governor of Illyricum. Resistance of the Bulgarian population in 540
- Boris inflicts a final defeat on Justinian and forces him to pay tribute in 540
- The death of Mundo, after 540
- Byzantium attacked the Gothic state in Italy with Bulgarian soldiers in 548
- Bulgarians and Lombards in 550 - 568
- Large-scale military actions of Bulgarians against Constantinople before 582
- The Avars came to Europe from Great Bulgaria and were a Hunnic and Bulgarian people
- Participation of the Bulgarians in the Avar-Bulgarian war against Byzantium between 597 and 601
Seventh Century, the last joint attack on Constantinople by Avars, Bulgars, Gepids, Slavs and Persians in 625

Expansion of Bulgaria in Lower Mysia in 680

The Narrative of Patriarch Nikephoros
The Narrative of Theophanes the Confessor
The Narrative of Anastasius the Librarian
Information from the Annals of Manasiy
Information of Simeon Logothete
Information of Leo Deacon
The 10th Century account of the Khazar Kagan Joseph

Kuber
Asparuh 633 - 694

Asparuh and Kuber defending what they conquered against Justinian II in Illyria and Thrace in 688
- The Narrative of Siegebert
- The narrative of Georgi Kedrin and Ioan Skilitsa
- The Narrative of Anastasius the Librarian
- The Narrative of Patriarch Nikephoros
- The Narrative of Theophanes the Confessor
- The Narrative of Paisii Hilendarski
Mauricea. Bulgarians fought on Muhammad"s side in 693
- The Narrative of Patriarch Nikephoros
- The Narrative of Anastasius the Librarian
- The Narrative of Leo the Grammarian
- The Narrative of Theophanes the Confessor
Paisiy Hilendarski"s account of the death of Asparuh in 694

Tervel 694 - 715

Tervel returned Justinian to the throne in 705
- The Narrative of Paul Deacon
- The Narrative of Patriarch Nikephoros
- The Narrative of Theophanes the Confessor
- The Narrative of Anastasius the Librarian
- References of other authors
Justinian Rinomet breaks peace with the Bulgarians, Bulgarian victory at Anchialos in 708
Tervel in vain sent military aid to Justinian II in 711
Tervel at the Golden Gate in 712
Arabs besieged Constantinople in 715
- Attempted coup of deposed emperor Artemius who asks Tervel for help 715. Thessaloniki is under Bulgarian rule
- Byzantium"s request for help against the Arabs 715
- Peace treaty between Bulgaria and Byzantium signed between 715 and 717
- A scary winter in 717
The Bulgarians defeated the Muslim Arabs who besieged Constantinople in 715 - 718

Kormisosh 712 - 760, Vineh 753 - 760
Unknown ruler 714 - 742 of the Dulo clan
Sevar 744 - 759

Bulgarians at the Long Wall. First campaign of Constantine V Compronimus against Bulgaria in 754 - 756
Second campaign of Constantine V Copronymus against the Slavinians in Macedonia in 758 - 759
Third unsuccessful campaign of Constantine V Copronymus in Bulgaria in 759 - 760

Telets 760 - 763 and his ill-fated war with Byzantium in 763

Black Sea freezes from extraordinary cold 762/763
Civil war in Bulgaria. Slavs left the Bulgarian lands en masse. Fourth campaign of Constantine V against Bulgaria. Defeat of the Bulgarian army at Anchialos on 30 June 763
- The Narrative of Patriarch Nikephoros
- The Narrative of Anastasius the Librarian
- The Narrative of Theophanes the Confessor

Sabin 762 - 763 and his flight to Byzantium

The Narrative of Anastasius the Librarian
The Narrative of Theophanes the Confessor
The Narrative of Patriarch Nikephoros

Pagan (Boyan) 764 - 765

Policy of Byzantium towards the Slavs
Constantine V"s fifth and sixth campaigns against Bulgaria in 764 and 765
- The Narrative of Anastasius the Librarian
- The Narrative of Patriarch Nikephoros
- The Narrative of Theophanes the Confessor
Great drought in 767

Tellerig 770 - 778

Constantine V"s seventh campaign by land and sea against Bulgaria in January 774. Terrible defeat of the Byzantine army at Aheloy
Unsuccessful attempt by Tellerig to bring the Berzites to Northern Bulgaria in October 774
Eighth naval campaign of Constantine V against Bulgaria in 775
Ninth naval campaign of Constantine V against Bulgaria in 775 - 776
Tellerig abdicated the throne and moved to Constantinople in 777

Kardam 778 - 807

Slavs in Greece became taxpayers of Byzantium in 783
Byzantium restored its authority over Zagora in 784
The Byzantines suffered defeat by the Bulgarians at the Struma River in 789
The Byzantines suffered defeat by the Bulgarians at Provat in 791
The Byzantines suffered defeat by the Bulgarians at Markeli in 792
Constantine VI refused to pay tribute to the Bulgarians in 796
Akamir, the prince of the Slavs, prepares a plot against Empress Irene
Franks and Avars at the time of Charlemagne and Kardam

Krum 807 - 814

Destruction of the Avar state. Krum"s Laws
Nikephoros set out against the Bulgarians in 807
Charlemagne ultimately defeats the Avars
Krum"s successful march to the Struma valley in 809
Krum conquered Serdica in 809. Nikephoros displaces Romans in Slavic areas
Byzantium made peace with the Franks in 811. War between Franconia and Bulgaria
The atrocities of Nicephorus and the victory of Krum in 811
- The Narrative of Theophanes the Confessor
- Anonymous Vatican Narrative
- The Continuator of Theophanes
The Fate of Stavrakius
Michael I Rangave"s refusal to accept Krum"s second peace proposal in 811. Krum captures Mesembria
Krum conquered Debelt in 812. The Romans leave the Thracian fortresses
Krum inscriptions
The Bulgarians conquer Adrianople on 22 June 813
The Byzantines want help from the Franks against the Bulgarians
Krum besieges Constantinople on 19 July 813
Assassination attempt on Krum during peace negotiations in late July 813
Krum devastates Thrace
The conquest of Adrianople in August 813
New attack and kidnapping of captives in the warm winter of 813/814
Crum prepares a final showdown with Constantinople in March 814. Death of Krum on 11 April 814
The famous captive from the conquered Adrianople

Omurtag 822 - 831

On the Structure of the State
Omurtag"s only war with Byzantium, peace treaties between Omurtag and Leo V
- The war in 814 according to Joseph Genesius
- The War of 814 according to Skilitsa and Kedrin
- The war in 814 according to the Continuator of Theophanes
- Comment
- Oath-taking ceremonies at the conclusion of the 30-year peace treaty in 814
- Text of the 30-year peace treaty. The southern border of Bulgaria in 814
- Confirmation of the annual peace treaty in 820
- The Peace of Omurtagh
Omurtag helped Michael to suppress the rebellion of Thomas the Slav in 820 - 823
War on the Dnieper
Slavic peoples renounce the alliance with the Bulgarians and side with the Franks in 819
Omurtag sent envoys to Emperor Ludwig
The Bulgarians appointed their governors in Pannonia in 827
The Bulgarians ravaged Upper Pannonia in 828

Malamir 831 - 836
Presian 836 - 852

War with the Smolyans
Attitudes towards the Western Slavs
Return of citizens of Adrianople captured by Krum to Macedonia in 836
Bulgarian-Serbian relations, Presian lost a war with young Serbia in 840

Boris or John-Michael 852 - 888, 893

Peace with Byzantium
Attempt of the Kievan Russians to help the opponents of Christianity
The war with the Croats in 874
Relations with the peoples of Central Europe
Relations with Serbia under Tsar Boris
Conversion of the unbaptized Bulgarians
- The conversion according to "The Miracle of St. George and the Bulgarian"
- Conversion according to John the Baptist
- The Conversion according to the Continuator of Theophanes
- The Conversion according to the Chronicle of Leo the Grammarian
- The Conversion according to Nestor
- The Conversion according to the Annals of Manassiy
Foreign Bishops in Danube Bulgaria
- Roman Bishops in Bulgaria
- The German Bishops in Bulgaria
- Greek Bishops in Bulgaria
- Nevertheless, why did Boris make Christianity the state religion?
Beginning of the Magyar invasion of Europe
Relations with the Germans
Relations with the Pannonian Slavs, Arnulf allied with the Bulgars against Svetopolk in 883
Where did the Magyars come from before they conquered their present lands?
Magyars and Germans liquidate Svetopolk"s state in Moravia

Cyril and Methodius

How, after 400 years of Turkish yoke, did interest in the fate of our first teachers awaken?
Rulers and important dates
Origin of the brothers
The Alphabet
Cyril
- Education
- Proposal for a senior government post
- Lecturer in Constantinople
- The dispute with the iconoclasts
- Mission to Baghdad in 851
- Methodius governor of the Slavic province 836 - 851
- The Khazar Mission 852
- Working on the Slavonic writing with Methodius in Olympus, Asia Minor 853 - 863
- The Moravian Mission 864 - 867
- The dispute in Venice in 868
- Rome 868 - 869
- The Deeds of The Brothers in the Czechia
Methodius
Which books were translated by Constantine and Methodius?
The language of translations

Simeon 891 - 927

Youth
Structure of the Bulgarian State under Simeon
Moving the market from Constantinople to Thessaloniki and the war between Bulgarians and Romans in 894 - 896
- The War according to the Continuator of Theophanes
- War according to Herman of Augia
- The War according to the Fulda Chronicles
- War according to the Continuator of George Monk
- The war according to Constantine Porphyrogenites
- The war according to Bulgarian sources
The conquest of the Bulgarian vassal principalities on the Tisza and the Transylvania by the Hungarians
The tactics of the Hungarians in their war against Bulgaria
Thessaloniki captured by Arabs during Bulgarian raids in 904, Bulgarian borders reach Thessaloniki and the Adriatic
Oleg besieges Constantinople with 2000 ships and cavalry in 907
Unsuccessful negotiations for the return of the Byzantine captives in 908
Simeon"s campaign against Constantinople in 913
New war with Byzantium in 914 - 915
- Byzantium negotiates with the Pechenegs for war against the Bulgars in 914
- The first conquest of Adrianople by Tsar Simeon in 915
- The Bulgarian army at the Corinth Strait in 915
- The Bulgarian army conquered the Thessaloniki and Dracca region in 915
Defeat of the Byzantine army at Anchialos on 6.VIII.917
Defeat of the Byzantine army at Catassirti in late August, early September 917
Serbia - Province of Bulgaria
The march of the Bulgarians to the suburbs of Constantinople in 921 - 922
Second conquest of Adrianople by Tsar Simeon 921 - 922
Simeon in the city of Viza 922 - 925
Tsar Simeon"s meeting with Emperor Romanus Lakapin in 924
Croatia independent of Bulgaria
Bulgarians on the Volga River converted to Islam in 922
The death of Simeon in May 927
Simeon and his brother Michael - founders of the national education system of Bulgaria

Tsar Peter, 926 - 30 January 969

Peace with Byzantium, the wedding of the century between Peter and Mary on 8.X.827
The legendary Bojan
The rebellion of Ivan, the brother of King Peter, in 928
Formation of the Serbian state in 928
The rebellion of Michael, brother of King Peter, in 930. The Splitting of Bulgaria
Bulgarian queen Maria goes to Constantinople with her children in August 931
Raids of the Magyars in Roman land in 934 and 943
Constantine VII Porphyrogenites sends a message to the Bulgarians in 945
New attack of the Magyars in 962
Peace between Bulgarians and Franks
Peter"s Church Policy and the Growing Byzantine Influence in Bulgaria

The war of the Kievan Russians with Bulgaria. Occupation of Eastern Bulgaria by the Russians

Kievan Rus repeatedly attacked Constantinople and destroyed Khazaria
Kievan Rus conquered northeastern Bulgaria in 968
New peace treaty between Byzantium and Bulgaria
War of Byzantines and Bulgarians against Russians and Bulgarians in Southern Bulgaria
The war of Byzantium against the Kievan Rus in Northeastern Bulgaria, conquest of Preslav
Volga Bulgaria successfully repels Kievan Rus"
The wars of Russians and Bulgarians on the Volga
The Mongols conquered Volga Bulgaria in 1223
The Rus conquered Volga Bulgaria in 1590

The war of Byzantium with Western Bulgaria, Samuel

Civil war in Byzantium from 976 to 988
Samuel comes to power
Victory of Samuel at Ihtiman Pass on 17.8.986
Samuel captures Verea, west of Thessaloniki
Samuel led successful battles to Thessaloniki in 996
Larissa in the hands of Samuel
Samuel loses the Battle of the River Alamana
The wedding of Samuel"s daughter to the captured Ashot, Drach is taken by treachery
Plovdiv again in the hands of Byzantium in 1001
Preslav and Pliska again in the hands of Byzantium in 999
Ber and Servia again in the hands of Byzantium in 1000
Voden again into the hands of Byzantium
Vidin in the hands of Byzantium 1002, Samuel plunders the fair in Adrianople
Defeat at Vardar, Skopje falls
Unsuccessful siege of Pernik in 1004
Samuel"s defeat at Belasitsa on 29 July 1014
Fall of Melnik, Pelagonia, Prilep and Shtip
New uprising in Voden and its suppression in 1015
Conquest of Mughlen and Enotia
Samuel"s son - Gavril Radomir - became tsar on 15.IX.915
Death of the last Bulgarian king Ivan Vladislav, capture of Ohrid
Taking of Strumica and Boyana, the siege of Pernik
Again Russians fought on the side of Byzantium against Bulgaria in 1017
Administrative Structure of Conquered Bulgaria
- First Charter of Basil II of 1019
- Second Charter of Basil II of 1020
- Third Charter of Basil II of 1020
Decree of Basil II against the Bulgarians

Uprisings against Byzantium

Peter Delyan 1040
Georgi Manyac
The Pechenegs in Bulgaria
Uzi in Bulgaria
The Revolt of Georgi Vojtech 1071

The rebellion of Asen and Peter in 1187. Liberation of Bulgaria

Account of Georgi Acropolit
Account of Theodore Scutariot
Information of Nikita Honyat
Restoration of Bulgarian culture
Ivanko, the murderer of Assen

Chronology

Before Christmas
First Century
Second Century
Third Century
Fourth Century
Fifth Century
The Sixth Century
The Seventh Century
The Eighth Century
The Ninth Century
The Tenth Century
The Eleventh Century
The Twelfth Century

Constantinople

Pontus, Propontus, Cimmerian Bosporus, Thracian Bosporus, Bosporus
The Cherson Bosphorus
Constantinople
- The Thracian marketplace Byzopol or Byzantium
- Byzantium becomes a Roman city
- Byzantium became the capital of Constantine the Great in 324
- The Old Wall of Byzantium
- The Wall of Tiberius 14 - 37
- The Wall of Theodosius 413
- Anastasius, the Long or Thracian wall 512
- The Iron Chain through the Golden Horn
- Million
The foundation of Heraclea
The Founding of Adrianople
The foundation of Thessaloniki
The surroundings of Constantinople