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The foundation of the First Bulgarian Empire. After the defeat of Great Bulgaria by the Khazars and following Khan Kubrat's death in 668, a large group of Bulgars followed the third son of the great Khan, Asparukh, who headed south-westwards. In the 670s they were settled in the border area known as the Ongal to the north of the Danube delta.
1015–1018), but after the demise of the latter during the siege of Dyrrhachium the nobility surrendered to Basil II and Bulgaria was annexed by the Byzantine Empire. [170] The Bulgarian aristocracy kept its privileges, although many noblemen were transferred to Asia Minor, thus depriving the Bulgarians of their natural leaders. [171]
A widely autonomous Principality of Bulgaria was created, between the Danube and the Stara Planina range, with its seat at the old Bulgarian capital of Veliko Turnovo, and including Sofia. This state was to be under nominal Ottoman sovereignty but was to be ruled by a prince elected by a congress of Bulgarian notables and approved by the Powers.
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]
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 ...
Bulgarian Empire may refer to: First Bulgarian Empire , medieval Bulgarian state that existed from 681 to 1018 Second Bulgarian Empire , medieval Bulgarian state that existed from 1185 to 1396
1913 at the Treaty of London, border between Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). Elhovo - Edirne. 1885 after the East Rumelian revolution, border between Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). Svilengrad - Edirne. 1919 at the Treaty of Neuilly, border between Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
north-eastern border of Bulgaria beyond the Danube delta (see R. Crampton, A Concise History of Bulgaria, Cambridge UP, 2006); Serdica (Sofia) was part of the First Bulgarian Empire by the 814 peace treaty between the Bulgarians and Byzantines (see Cambridge Medieval History , vol. 4 (1923) and R. Crampton, loc. cit.)