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Some historians use the terms Danube Bulgaria, [13] First Bulgarian State, [14] [15] or First Bulgarian Tsardom (Empire). Between 681 and 864 the country is also called by modern historians as the Bulgarian Khanate, [16] or the Bulgar Khaganate, [17] from the Turkic title of khan/khagan borne by its rulers.
Bulgarian Empire may refer to: First Bulgarian Empire, medieval Bulgarian state that existed from 681 to 1018; Second Bulgarian Empire, medieval Bulgarian state that ...
In the 11th century, the First Bulgarian Empire collapsed under multiple Rus' and Byzantine attacks and wars, and was conquered and became part of the Byzantine Empire until 1185. Then, a major uprising led by two brothers, Asen and Peter of the Asen dynasty , restored the Bulgarian state to form the Second Bulgarian Empire .
The Second Bulgarian Empire was a centre of a thriving culture that reached its peak in the mid-to-late 14th century during the reign of Ivan Alexander (r. 1331–71). [ 193 ] [ 194 ] Bulgarian architecture, arts, and literature spread beyond the borders of Bulgaria into Serbia , Wallachia, Moldavia , and the Russian principalities and affected ...
First Bulgarian Empire, early 10th century (904) The Golden Age of Bulgaria is the period of the Bulgarian cultural prosperity during the reign of emperor Simeon I the Great (889—927). [1] The term was coined by Spiridon Palauzov in the mid 19th century.
Old Great Bulgaria (Medieval Greek: Παλαιά Μεγάλη Βουλγαρία, Palaiá Megálē Voulgaría), also often known by the Latin names Magna Bulgaria [5] and Patria Onoguria ("Onogur land"), [6] was a 7th-century Turkic nomadic empire formed by the Onogur-Bulgars on the western Pontic–Caspian steppe (modern southern Ukraine and southwest Russia). [7]
During the reign of Emperor Ivan Alexander (1331-1371), the Bulgarian Empire entered a period of cultural revival, sometimes called the "Second Golden Age" of the empire. [77] Bulgarian architecture, arts, and literature spread beyond the borders of Bulgaria into Serbia , Wallachia, Moldavia , and the Russian principalities and affected Slavic ...
Ivan Asen II aspired to make himself the ruler of a joint Bulgarian-Byzantine Empire [55] and his reign saw the Second Bulgarian Empire reach its greatest extent. [3] Defeated the Empire of Thessalonica at the Battle of Klokotnitsa (1230), whereafter much of its territory was annexed and Bulgaria became the most powerful state in southeastern ...