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Battle of Velbuzhd: the Serbians won the battle and the Serbians after the battle dominated Bulgaria. 1331: Ivan Stephen was disposed and went to Serbia. 1371: 17 February: Ivan Alexander died. 1393: The capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire, Tarnovo, was captured by the Ottoman Empire. 1396: Bulgaria was invaded and conquered by the Turks.
The Bulgarian Empire under king Kaloyan pushes Serbia to the west; First Bulgarian–Latin War (1204-1208) Bulgarian Empire: Latin Empire: Victory. Weakening of the Latin Empire and enlargement of the Bulgarian Empire; Battle of Klokotnitsa (1230) Bulgarian Empire: Empire of Thessalonica: Victory. Empire of Thessalonica conquered by Bulgaria ...
In the 1912–1913 Balkan Wars, Bulgaria initially formed an alliance with Greece, Serbia and Montenegro against the Ottoman Empire, and together they conquered a great deal of Ottoman territory. Bulgaria, however, unhappy with the resulting division of territory , soon went to war against its former allies Serbia and Greece and lost territory ...
History of Bulgaria; Odrysian kingdom 460 BC – 46 AD; Roman times 46–681; Dark Ages c. 6th–7th cent. Old Great Bulgaria 7th cent., 632–668; First Bulgarian Empire 681–1018. Christianization; Golden Age 896–927; Cometopuli dynasty 968–1018; Byzantine Bulgaria 1018–1185; Second Bulgarian Empire 1185–1396. Second Golden Age 1230 ...
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Second Bulgarian Empire, 1331–1371 The defeat of the anti-Ottoman coalition in the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396 was the final blow leading to the fall of the Bulgarian Empire. On 26 September 1371, the Ottomans defeated a large Christian army led by the Serbian brothers Vukašin Mrnjavčević and Jovan Uglješa in the Battle of Chernomen .
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. After reaching its ...
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 ...