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First Bulgarian Empire

The First Bulgarian Empire (Church Slavonic: ц︢рьство бл︢гарское, ts'rstvo bl'garskoe[10]) was a medieval Bulgarian state founded in AD 632 in the lands near the Danube Delta and which disintegrated in AD 1185 after its annexation to the Byzantine Empire.

First Bulgarian Empire
ц︢рьство бл︢гарское
681–991
First Bulgarian Empire in 850[1][2]
First Bulgarian Empire in 850[1][2]
CapitalPliska (681–893),
Preslav (893–968/972)
Common languagesBulgar,[3]
Proto-Slavic,
Byzantine Greek,[4][5][6]
Balkan Romance,
Church Slavonic[7]
Religion
Tengrism, Slavic paganism (681–864),
Orthodox Christianity (state religion from 864)
GovernmentAbsolute monarchy
Monarch 
• 681-700
Asparuh (first)
• 930s-991
Roman of Bulgaria (last)
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• Asparuh arrives and defeats Eastern Rome at the Battle of Ongal
680
• 
681
864
• Adoption of Church Slavonic as a national language
893
• Simeon I assumes the title of Tsar (Emperor)
913
• 
1018 991
Area
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Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Byzantine Calvary cross potent (transparent).png Quaestura exercitus
Image missing Avar Khaganate
The Monogram of Kubrat.png Old Great Bulgaria
Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty Flag placeholder.svg

First Bulgarian Empire Media

  • Theoritical Flag of Bulgaria in 13th century

  • Slavic tribes and states in Early Middle Ages

  • The Bulgar migrations after the fall of Old Great Bulgaria in the 7th century

  • Zones of control by Slavic tribes and Bulgars in the late 7th century

  • Southeast Europe about 680 AD

  • Part of the Pliska fortress

  • Territorial expansion during the reign of Krum

  • Bulgaria under rule of khan Presian (836-852).

References

  1. ↑ Fine, John (1991). Early medieval Balkans. ISBN 0-472-08149-7.
  2. ↑ Curta, Florin (31 August 2006). Southeastern Europe in the Middle ages 500 - 1200. ISBN 0-521-81539-8.
  3. ↑ Sedlar, Jean W. (2011). East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000–1500. University of Washington Press. p. 424. ISBN 9780295800646.
  4. ↑ Fletcher, Richard A. (1999). The Barbarian Conversion: from Paganism to Christianity. University of California Press. p. 338. ISBN 0-520-21859-0.
  5. ↑ Adrados, Francisco Rodríguez (2005). A History of the Greek Language: from its Origins to the Present. BRILL. p. 265. ISBN 90-04-12835-2.
  6. ↑ Curta 2008, pp. 350–351
  7. ↑ Language Contact in Europe The Periphrastic Perfect Through History by Bridget Drinka (2017) Cambridge University Press page 290 (ISBN : 9780521514934)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Rashev, Rasho (2008). Българската езическа култура VII -IX в./Bulgarian Pagan Culture VII - IX c. (In Bulgarian. Класика и стил. ISBN 9789543270392.
  9. ↑ Davies, Norman (1997). Europe. A History. Oxford University press. ISBN 954-427-663-7.
  10. ↑ Radoev, Ivanov Alexander (2019). THE CROATIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH Was, Is, And Shall Be. Zagreb, Croatia: Croatian Archbishop Alexander. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-359-99545-5. According to the law of 893, in the Bulgarian Empire everyone was Bulgarian, and the Bulgarian language was mandatory in the liturgy (with Cyrillic or Glagolitic script).


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