Bulgarian

Examples of Bulgarian in the following topics:

• The Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars

  • The First Bulgarian Empire was a medieval Bulgarian state that existed in southeastern Europe between the 7th and 11th centuries AD.
  • In 927, the fully independent Bulgarian Patriarchate was officially recognized.
  • The Byzantine–Bulgarian wars were a series of conflicts fought between the Byzantines and Bulgarians which began when the Bulgars first settled in the Balkan peninsula in the 5th century, and intensified with the expansion of the Bulgarian Empire to the southwest after 680 AD.
  • The Byzantines and Bulgarians continued to clash over the next century with variable success, until the Bulgarians, led by Krum, inflicted a series of crushing defeats on the Byzantines.
  • A map of the First Bulgarian Empire in the 10th century

• The Last Byzantine Dynasty

  • In addition, the disintegration of the Byzantine Empire allowed the Bulgarians, the Serbs and the various Turcoman emirates of Anatolia to make gains.
  • With a decreasing source of food and manpower, the Palaiologoi were forced to fight on several fronts, most of them being Christian states: the Second Bulgarian Empire, the Serbian Empire, the remnants of the Latin Empire and even the Knights Hospitaller.
  • The loss of land in the east to the Turks and in the west to the Bulgarians was complemented by two disastrous civil wars, the Black Death and the 1354 earthquake at Gallipoli, whose destruction and evacuation allowed the Turks to occupy it.

• Iconoclasm in Byzantium

  • The Byzantines had suffered a series of humiliating defeats at the hands of the Bulgarian Khan Krum.

• The Macedonian Dynasty

  • The conversion of the Bulgarians, Serbs and Rus' to Orthodox Christianity permanently changed the religious map of Europe and still impacts demographics today.

• The Fall of Constantinople

  • The Bulgarian Empire, which had rebelled against the Byzantines centuries earlier, now matched it in strength.

• Vladimir I and Christianization

  • He also successfully bolstered his frontiers against incursions from Bulgarian, Baltic, and Eastern nomads during his reign.

• The Allied Push

  • In northern Serbia, the Red Army, with limited support from Bulgarian forces, assisted the Communist-led Partisans under Marshal Josip Broz Tito in a joint liberation of the capital city of Belgrade on October 20.

• The European Theater

  • In northern Serbia, the Red Army, with limited support from Bulgarian forces, assisted the Partisans in a joint liberation of the capital city of Belgrade in October.