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The Second Bulgarian Empire, once a powerful force in the Balkans, ultimately fell after centuries of warfare, internal strife, and foreign invasions. This video examines the key factors behind ...
A tourist firm from Uzbekistan has mistakenly attached a map of the First Bulgarian Empire to an article advertising tours in Bulgaria. The Uzbekistan firm named Premium Business Travel is based ...
The saints were born in today's Greece in the 9th century and are credited with creating an alphabet for the Slavic people that was later adapted during the first Bulgarian Empire, which later ...
New fragments have been discovered from the earliest known Bulgarian-made icon – a ceramic icon of St. Theodore Stratilates dating back to the 10th century AD, the height of the First Bulgarian Empire ...
Madara Rider The Madara Rider, representing the figure of a knight triumphing over a lion, is carved into a 100-m-high cliff near the village of Madara in north-east Bulgaria. Madara was the principal ...
The Akkadian Empire set many standards that would later be replicated by other rulers and was influential across a large portion of the ancient world.
The Republic of Bulgaria is a Southeastern European nation. It is one of the older countries on our list in terms of established governance, with the first Bulgarian Empire set up in the seventh ...
Archaeologists have made a sensational finding on Saturday, dated back to the first Bulgarian Empire (years 681-1018) in the ancient Bulgarian capital of Pliska. The team of archaeologists found ...
Ahead of the 830th anniversary of the founding of the Second Bulgarian Empire, the northern Bulgarian city of Veliko Tarnovo has opened for visitors and planned special events the restored St. Dimitar ...
Under Nikephoros II Phokas (963-969), Ioannes (John) Tzimiskes (969-976), and Basil II (976-1025) the embattled empire launched a series of successful counter-offensives against the Muslim Abbasid ...
Madara Rider The Madara Rider, representing the figure of a knight triumphing over a lion, is carved into a 100-m-high cliff near the village of Madara in north-east Bulgaria. Madara was the principal ...