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Veliko Tarnovo

History; European history

Veliko Tarnovo is a city in north central Bulgaria. In the 14th century as the Byzantine Empire weakened, Tarnovo claimed to be the Third Rome based on its preeminent cultural influence in the ...

Tsarevets is a mediaeval stronghold located on a hill with the same name in Veliko Tarnovo in northern Bulgaria. It served as the Second Bulgarian Empire's primary fortress and strongest bulwark from ...

Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria

History; European history

Ivan Asen II ruled as Emperor of Bulgaria from 1218 to 1241, during the Second Bulgarian Empire.

First Bulgarian Empire

History; European history

The First Bulgarian Empire was a mediaeval state founded in the north-eastern Balkans in c. 681 by the Bulgars, uniting with seven South Slavic tribes. At the height of its power it spread between ...

Bulgarian National Revival

History; European history

The Bulgarian National Revival, sometimes called the Bulgarian Renaissance, was a period of socio-economic development and national integration among Bulgarian people under Ottoman rule. It is ...

Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya

History; European history

Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya is a book by Bulgarian scholar and clergyman Saint Paisius of Hilendar. Written in 1762, it is considered Saint Paisius of Hilendar's greatest work and one of the ...

Paisius of Hilendar

History; European history

Saint Paisius of Hilendar or Paisiy Hilendarski (1722–1773) was a Bulgarian clergyman and a key Bulgarian National Revival figure. He is most famous for being the author of Istoriya ...