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Creation of the First Bulgarian Empire on the Balkans
Creation of the First Bulgarian Empire on the Balkans
In 632 the Bulgars, originally from the ancient country Bactria under the leadership of Khan Kubrat an independent state that became known as Great Bulgaria. Its territory extended from the lower course of the Danube to the west, the Black Sea and the Azov Sea to the south, the Kuban River to the east, and the Donets River to the north.[11] Pressure from the Khazars led to the subjugation of Great Bulgaria in the second half of the 7th century. Kubrats successor, Khan Asparuh, migrated with some of the Bulgar tribes to the lower courses of the rivers Danube, Dniester and Dniepr (known as Ongal), and conquered Moesia and Scythia Minor (Dobrudzha) from the Byzantine Empire, expanding his new khanate further into the Balkan Peninsula.[12] A peace treaty with Byzantium in 681 and the establishment of the Bulgar capital of Pliska south of the Danube mark the beginning of the First Bulgarian Empire. At the same time one of Asparuh's brothers, Kuber, settled with another Bulgar group in present-day[update] Macedonia.[13] During the siege of Constantinople in 717-718 the Bulgarian ruler Khan Tervel honoured his treaty with the Byzantines by sending troops to help the populace of the imperial city.
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Manasyt - First Bulgarian Empire (Anarchy in the Funk)
Manasyt - First Bulgarian Empire (Anarchy in the Funk)
Written and produced by Petar Tassev. Bye Bye berlin - EP - Cat Number: Anarchy009 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Anarchy in the Funk Records Anarchy in the Funk - 2010 www.myspace.com/anarchyinthefunk
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The First Danube Bulgarian Empire
The First Danube Bulgarian Empire
0:45 - in Macedonia live ONLY Bulgarians (375-376 Ravenna Cosmograph) 2:44 - center of Great Old Bulgaria in Balkans (680 Kanasubigi Asparuh) 3:12 - Bulgarian state recognized after Byzantine defeat (680) 4:53 - the Asparuh Bulgarians unified all Bulgarians in the Balkans in one Bulgarian state. For 200 years all regions populated by Bulgarians were part of this empire: Panonia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, Illyria, and Macedonia. 5:21 - origins of Bulgarian language 5:54 - Bulgarian culture and influences in Slavic peoples 6:35 - map of Bulgarian Empire 893-927 7:32 - Bulgarian state ruled from Macedonia 997-1014 Macedonians are Bulgarians are Macedonians. They were one people (and essentially still are). Macedonian = tribes of Manasseh and Dan. River Danube named after tribe of Dan (Hebrews, Israel, Egypt)
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България Bulgaria
България Bulgaria
The First Bulgarian Empire Main article: First Bulgarian Empire In 632 the Bulgars, originally from Central Asia, formed under the leadership of Khan Kubrat an independent state that became known as Great Bulgaria. Its territory extended from the lower course of the Danube to the west, the Black Sea and the Azov Sea to the south, the Kuban River to the east, and the Donets River to the north.[11] Pressure from the Khazars led to the subjugation of Great Bulgaria in the second half of the 7th century. Kubrats successor, Khan Asparuh, migrated with some of the Bulgar tribes to the lower courses of the rivers Danube, Dniester and Dniepr (known as Ongal), and conquered Moesia and Scythia Minor (Dobrudzha) from the Byzantine Empire, expanding his new khanate further into the Balkan Peninsula.[12] A peace treaty with Byzantium in 681 and the establishment of the Bulgar capital of Pliska south of the Danube mark the beginning of the First Bulgarian Empire. At the same time one of Asparuh's brothers, Kuber, settled with another Bulgar group in present-day[update] Macedonia.[13] During the siege of Constantinople in 717-718 the Bulgarian ruler Khan Tervel honoured his treaty with the Byzantines by sending troops to help the populace of the imperial city. According to the Byzantine chronicler Theophanes, in the decisive battle the Bulgarians killed 22000 Arabs, thereby eliminating the threat of a full-scale Arab invasion into Eastern and Central Europe.[14] The influence and <b>...</b>
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Fortress Ruins from First Bulgarian Kingdom, Melnik, Bulgaria
Fortress Ruins from First Bulgarian Kingdom, Melnik, Bulgaria
I'm hoping this posts! When I first saw these ruins on Saint Constantine hill, I thought they were of Roman or Greek origin. Then I bought a tourist guide, entitled *Melnik: Former, Present, Future* (nd) that gave me a little more info. I'll add some more details later, but basically: Melnik was a main traffic site that attracted the Romans who used it to help them gain a stronghold on Bulgaria (np). The Romans established the Byzantine Empire in 1014, which lasted about 200 years; but the fortification fortress was built about 200 years before that. The fortress extends down the left of Saint Constantine hill. There's also the remnants of an old church or castle on the far right of the hill. You can get to it either by following the trail from the main part of the fortress, or by walking down the hill, crossing left and following the winding trail; you'll know you're on the right track when you start passing lamp posts - but keep going past the hotel on the left until you see the white house on top of the hill.
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Volga Bulgarian Empire
Volga Bulgarian Empire
Tribute to the Volga bulgarians , In the name of the first who have defeated Genghis Khan in battle...... The richest Empire on that time in whole Eurasia. Proud defenders of Europe`s Eastern borders over 600 years. The Biggest bulgarian empire ever exist.
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Perpericon, The Rock-cut City, Bulgaria
Perpericon, The Rock-cut City, Bulgaria
The earliest traces of human civilization discovered so far at Perperikon were dated to the late Neolithic Period, 6th-5th millennium BC. However, Perperikon was not yet a settled village but a rock of worship. Next came the Eneolithic Period (or the Copper Age). Fragments of pottery dated to the late 5th - early 4th millennium BC were found. By the end of the Bronze Age Perperikon had become a major place of worship. Perperikon comprises four elements: the citadel, an acropolis at the top of the hill; a palace or temple immediately beneath the acropolis and facing southeast; and two outer cities, one on the northern and one on the southern slope of the hill. So far, no archaeological research has been done of the two outer cities but terrain observations indicate that they had streets and secular and religious buildings carved in the rock. A host of villages flocked at the foot of the hill and the fertile river valley was densely inhabited throughout the period of Roman rule. The hilltop was protected by the acropolis whose walls are 8 and a half feet thick. The citadel had probably been built earlier but the Romans renovated it and enhanced the fortifications. The riches hidden in the Eastern Rhodope had attracted the Bulgars since the late 7th century, when they first settled on the plain between the Danube and the Balkan Mountains to form the kernel of what was to become the first Bulgarian empire. Their expansionist ambitions were spurred on by the local population <b>...</b>
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Fortress Ruins from First Bulgarian Kingdom - Part 2, Melnik, Bulgaria
Fortress Ruins from First Bulgarian Kingdom - Part 2, Melnik, Bulgaria
So this is the view from the other side, but I started with the little cave structure because it's what made me hunt for a light source to explore it further. However, I was disappointed only because I thought it might've been a passageway to the interior; but it dead ended. The wall extends further to the left from where I started filming (or to the right, depending on where you're standing). But I suggest a flashlight if you want to make out the details inside of the little cave; it's very dark, but once you enter you can stand up and walk.
2:14
Bulgaria vs. Serbia - Serbia was conquered twice
Bulgaria vs. Serbia - Serbia was conquered twice
www.blic.rs Tsardom Bulgaria vs.Banovina Serbia Bulgaria is creator of the golden slav civilization and the Cyrillic alphabet. The first Bulgarian kingdoms on European soil date back to the early Middle Ages (7th century). All Bulgarian political entities that subsequently emerged preserved the traditions (in ethnic name, language and alphabet) of the First Bulgarian Empire (632/681 1018), which at times covered most of the Balkans and spread its alphabet, literature and culture among the Slavic and other peoples of Eastern Europe. Centuries later, with the decline of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185 1396/1422). Simeon's greatest achievement consisted of Bulgaria developing a rich, unique Christian Slavonic culture, which became an example for the other Slavonic peoples in Eastern Europe and ensured the continued existence of the Bulgarian nation regardless of the centrifugal forces that threatened to tear it into pieces throughout its long and war-ridden history. "The Bulgarians werre the people who contributed the most for the organization and formatrion of the civilization of the whole eastern Europe and its introduction into the civilized world." Prof. Geza Fecher, Hungary "The Bulgarian medieval culture is among the seven civilizations in the history of the world which played an essencial role because of its mission as a link between the East and the West." Shigioshi Matsuiama - Japanese Historian "The beggining and the possibility for the formation and development <b>...</b>
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Andy Mitchell 51-1 BG Empire-681-1018
Andy Mitchell 51-1 BG Empire-681-1018
First Bulgarian Empire
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The Glory of The Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1422)
The Glory of The Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1422)
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България / Bulgaria with Stefka Sabotinova - Prituri se planinata HD
България / Bulgaria with Stefka Sabotinova - Prituri se planinata HD
Bulgaria / (Bulgarian: България, Balgariya, officially the Republic of Bulgaria (Република България, transliterated: Republika Balgariya, is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east. With a territory of 110994 square kilometers (42855 sq mi), it ranks as the 15th-largest country in Europe. Prehistoric cultures began living on Bulgarian lands starting in the Neolithic period. Its ancient history has been marked by the presence of the Thracians, and later by the Greeks and Romans. The emergence of a unified Bulgarian ethnicity and state date back to the 7th century AD and the First Bulgarian Empire, which covered most Balkans, becoming a cultural hub for Slavic peoples in the Middle Ages. With the downfall of the Second Bulgarian Empire in 1396, its territories came under Ottoman rule for nearly five hundred years. ......................................... Stefka Sabotinova is a Bulgarian folk singer, singer of songs from the Thracian folklore region. Her ancestors were immigrants from Aegean Thrace and from them she inherited a great legacy and a kind of singing. For professional singing career reveals it folk singer Jecho Dolchinkov. Many years was a soloist and a chorus girl in the State Ensemble "Philip Kutev". With the ensemble performed in the largest concert halls in the world <b>...</b>
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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT BULGARIA
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT BULGARIA
21 INTERESTING FACTS : 1.Bulgaria is one of the oldest European countries and is the only one that hasn't changed its namе ever since it was founded. 2.According to the statistics , Bulgaria ranks third in Europe only after Greece and Italy for the number of its valuable archeological monuments. 3.The recognition of the autocephalous Bulgarian Patriarchate by the Patriarchate of Constantinople in 927 AD makes the Bulgarian Orthodox Church the oldest autocephalous Slavic Orthodox Church in the world. 4.The bulgarian autocephalous status preceded the autocephaly of the Serbian Orthodox Church (1219) by 292 years and of the Russian Orthodox Church (1589) by 662 years. 5.In 716 AD , the Bulgarians saved EUROPE from islamization .In 716 AD, the Bulgarians under the command of Kanasubigi Tervel came forward at the gates of Constantinople to help the Byzantines against the muslim threat. In a crucial battle in 718 AD the Bulgarian cavalry defeated the Arabs. "The Bulgarians assaulted the Arabs, slaying many of them... They were more afraid of the Bulgarians than of the Byzantines," reads the account of an Arab chronicler of Kanas Tervel's sweeping victory which left between 60 000 and 90 000 (by different sources) Arabs dead. This blow put an end to the muslim Arabs attempting to penetrate into the Old Continent through the Balkan Peninsula.The western chronicians called Tervel "The saviour of Europe" ! 6.The Bulgarians were the first people to use the Cyrillic alphabet <b>...</b>
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First Balkan War
First Balkan War
On the 9th of October 1912 the Balkan League including Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro declared war on the Ottoman Empire. The aim of the Balkan League was to liberate their brothers under Turkish rule. The whole world was astonished by the victories of the Bulgarian Army which liberated the City-Fortress of Odrin. The walls of Odrin were constructed by German engineers and the city was considered to be one of the most well-protected cities in the world. However the Bulgarians liberated it in less than a week. The Ottoman Empire suffered great losses and drew back its forces behind the line of Midia-Enos.
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Operation:Educate FYROM
Operation:Educate FYROM
Correction: The rock on 4:35 is from 10-11 century. Samuel was the Emperor (Tsar) of the First Bulgarian Empire from 997 to 6 October 1014. From 980 to 997, he was a general under Roman I of Bulgaria, the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria, and co-ruled with him, as Roman bestowed upon him the command of the army and the effective royal authority.As Samuel struggled to preserve his country's independence from the Byzantine Empire, his rule was characterized by constant warfare against the Byzantines and their equally ambitious ruler Basil II. In his early years Samuel managed to inflict several major defeats on the Byzantines and to launch offensive campaigns into their territory. In the late 10th century, the Bulgarian armies conquered the Serb principality of Duklja and led campaigns against the Kingdoms of Croatia and Hungary. But from 1001, he was forced mainly to defend the Empire against the superior Byzantine armies. Samuel died of a heart attack on 6 October 1014, two months after the catastrophic battle of Kleidion, and Bulgaria was fully subjugated by Basil II four years later. Samuel was considered "invincible in power and unsurpassable in strength". Similar comments were made even in Constantinople, where John Kyriotes Geometres penned a poem offering a punning comparison between the Bulgarian Emperor and a comet which appeared in 989. Songs used: Raiko Kirilov - Jovano,Jovanke Epizod - Elegia
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Roman Empire & Republic Conquests [509 BC - 476 AD]
Roman Empire & Republic Conquests [509 BC - 476 AD]
Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea, it became one of the largest empires in the ancient world. In its centuries of existence, Roman civilization shifted from a monarchy to an oligarchic republic to an increasingly autocratic empire. It came to dominate South-Western Europe, South-Eastern Europe/Balkans and the Mediterranean region through conquest and assimilation. The Western Roman Empire went into decline and disappeared in the 5th century AD. Plagued by internal instability and attacked by various migrating peoples, the western part of the empire, including Hispania, Gaul, Britannia and Italy, broke up into independent kingdoms in the 5th century. The Eastern Roman Empire, otherwise known as the Byzantine Empire, was governed from Constantinople, comprising Greece, parts conquered by the First Bulgarian Empire, Anatolia, Syria and Egypt, survived this crisis, and despite the loss of Syria and Egypt to the Arab Islamic Empire, revived and would live on for another millennium, until its last remains were finally annexed by the emerging Turkish Ottoman Empire. This eastern, Christian, medieval stage of the Empire is usually referred to as the Byzantine Empire by historians. Roman civilization is often grouped into "classical antiquity" with ancient Greece, a civilization that inspired much of the culture of ancient Rome <b>...</b>
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BUN VAMPAYAH MEDLEY - Ras Zacharri, Zafayah, Kappa Irie, Jahmmi Youth and Sen I
BUN VAMPAYAH MEDLEY - Ras Zacharri, Zafayah, Kappa Irie, Jahmmi Youth and Sen I
The First Bulgarian Riddim Produced by Zafayah Directed by Sen I DP: Simeon Kermekchiev (Mo) Edit: Astro Kit Studio /astro-kit.com/ Free download @ www.rootsrocket.org
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Іду на Ви! - I come at you! - Иду на Вы
Іду на Ви! - I come at you! - Иду на Вы
Svyatoslav the Brave - was a warrior prince of Kyivan Rus. Sviatoslav is famous for his incessant campaigns in the east and south, which precipitated the collapse of two great powers of Eastern Europe— Jewish-Khazaria and the First Bulgarian Empire. Before the war, Sviatoslav sent a message to the hostile rulers, consisting of a single phrase: "I come at you!". Sviatoslav destroyed the Jewish-Khazar city of Sarkel around 965, and possibly sacked (but did not occupy) the Jewish-Khazar city of Kerch on the Crimea. At Sarkel he established a Rus' settlement called Belaya Vyezha ("the white tower" or "the white fortress", the East Slavic translation for "Sarkel"). He subsequently (probably in 968 or 969) destroyed the Jewish-Khazar capital of Atil. A visitor to Atil wrote soon after Sviatoslav's campaign: "The Rus attacked, and no grape or raisin remained, not a leaf on a branch." Ukraine-Rus remember that and proud!
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Gorani - the forgotten Bulgarians
Gorani - the forgotten Bulgarians
According to a number of foreign scientists-historians, among whom Prof. Han, Stadtmueller and others, during the early Middle Ages the whole South Albania was populated with Bulgarians only. The indigenous population welcomed the Bulgarians as liberators and become related to them through marriages. Gradually it became a substantial element of the Bulgarian nation on the Balkans during the Middle Ages. For example the fortress Beli-grad with the Voyvoda Elemag in 1018 was the last Bulgarian stronghold the Byzantines encountered on their way to conquer the First Bulgarian Kingdom. Shortly afterwards, in 1041, the rebels of Tihomir and Petar Delyan managed to liberate Drach (today Durres) and during the rule of Ivan Asen II (1218-1241) the whole territory of Albania without Durres and Shkodra was incorporated into Bulgaria again. The centuries-long massive Bulgarian presence resulted in the numerous preserved till today Bulgarian toponyms (geographical names) of mountains (Gora, Mokra, Smolika, Prokletiya, Korshpnik), rivers (Sushitsa, Dunavets, Bistritsa, Devol) and a number of settlements (Vrubnitsa, Ostreni, Topolino, etc.): "The Slav toponyms in Kosovo and Albania look more Bulgarian than Serbian, as the Bulgarians conquered those territories during the 9th and mostly in the end of the 10th century during the rise of the Bulgarian Empire with Ohrid as a capital, when the Serbians were to be found far from Kosovo. It was only during the rule of Stefan Nemanich (1196 <b>...</b>
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Bulgaria HiLites: Nesebar, Black Sea Coast
Bulgaria HiLites: Nesebar, Black Sea Coast
Nesebar, also transcribed as Nessebar or Nesebur; ancient name: Mesembria) is an ancient city and a major seaside resort on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, located in Nesebar municipality, Burgas Province. Often referred to as the "Pearl of the Black Sea" and "Bulgaria's Dubrovnik", Nesebar is a rich city-museum defined by more than three millennia of ever-changing history. Originally a Thracian settlement known as Menebria, the town became a Greek colony when settled by Dorians from Megara at the beginning of the 6th century BC, and was an important trading centre from then on and a rival of Apollonia (Sozopol). It remained the only Doric colony along the Black Sea coast, as the rest were typical Ionic colonies. Remains from the Hellenistic period include the acropolis, a temple of Apollo, and an agora. A wall which formed part of the fortifications can still be seen on the north side of the peninsula. Bronze and silver coins were minted in the city since the 5th century BC and gold coins since the 3rd century BC. The town fell under Roman rule in 71 BC, yet continued to enjoy privileges such as the right to mint its own coinage. It was one of the most important strongholds of the Byzantine Empire from the 5th century AD onwards, and was fought over by Byzantines and Bulgarians, being captured and incorporated in the lands of the First Bulgarian Empire in 812 by Khan Krum after a two week siege only to be ceded back to Byzantium by Knyaz Boris I in 864 and reconquered <b>...</b>
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Trikala,Greece-Τρίκαλα,Ελλάς
Trikala,Greece-Τρίκαλα,Ελλάς
Trikala greece hellas hellenic republic thessaly periphery thessalia democracy litheos pertouli dimos trikaion trikkh triki trikki asklipios asclipion fortress byzantium ancient greece city 3500 BC town of Trikala,triki,statues monuments buildings civilization Trikala (Greek: Τρίκαλα) is a city in northwestern Thessaly, Greece. It is the capital of the Trikala peripheral unit, and is located NW of Athens, NW, of Karditsa, E of Ioannina and Metsovo, S of Grevena, SW of Thessaloniki, and W of Larissa. Located in the fertile plain of Thessaly in central Greece, modern Trikala is the Homeric Trikka (or Trikki), the birthplace of three of the Argonauts and the birthplace of Asclepius (Asklepios). Ruins of an old sanctuary to the physician-god, an Asklepieion, or healing place, are located between the central square and the church of Saint Nicholas (Agios Nikolaos) in Trikala; it is the oldest Aesculapium of Greece - a kind of medical centre, from which the worship of Aesculapius gradually spread. There are other late Hellenistic and Roman period remains to be seen, mosaic floors, a stoa, and baths. Dominated by its Byzantine fortress on Hellenistic foundations occupying the ancient Acropolis, the picturesque city is divided in two by the river Lithaios, with the churches of Agios Demetrios and Agii Anargyri lending more Byzantine character to the modern town. She was managed by First Bulgarian Empire (920-922, 977-983, 996-997) due to occupations by Simeon I and Samuil. She <b>...</b>
