The Despotate of Dobruja or Principality of Karvuna (Bulgarian: Добруджанско деспотство or Карвунско княжество; Romanian: Despotatul Dobrogei or Țara...

powerful House of Shishman ruled over the Vidin Province in the west, while in the east Balik established a quasi-independent Despotate of Dobruja. While the...

the title of despot; most notably the Despotate of Epirus, the Despotate of the Morea, the Despotate of Dobruja and the Serbian Despotate. In modern...

Theodore of Dobruja was a Bulgarian noble. He was brother of Balik the founder of the Despotate of Dobruja, and his successor Dobrotitsa. In 1346, Theodore...

the invading Ottoman Turks. The Ottomans went on to conquer the despotates of Dobruja, Prilep, and Velbazhd as well. Vidin's independence did not last...

annexation of the Crimean and Balkan regions respectively saw large influxes of Muslim refugees—200,000 Crimean Tartars fleeing to Dobruja. Between 1783...

Ivanko (Bulgarian: Иванко) was the ruler of the Despotate of Dobruja from 1385 to 1389, and again from 1393 to 1399. His father was Dobrotitsa. In 1385...

several polities—including the Despotate of Dobruja—which, according to Gagauz tradition, had a rooster flag. The emergence of Gagauz nationalism dates back...

local dynasty ruled the Despotate of Dobruja in the second half of the 14th century, but the Ottoman Empire took possession of the territory after 1388...

Ravna, in Varna Province; and finally Murfatlar in Dobruja, now in Romania. In the book center of the school, literature in the Old Bulgarian language...

Bulgarian despot of the Despotate of Dobruja, ruled 1385-1399 Ivan Bohun (died 1664), Cossack colonel Ivan Bot, Hungarian-Croatian nobleman, Ban of Croatia (1493)...

Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia (1991–1996) In Bulgaria: Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396) Despotate of Dobruja (1356–1411) Principality of Bulgaria (1878–1908)...

southern Dobruja. The distribution of pre-Christian burial assemblages in Bulgaria and Romania is considered as the indication of the confines of the Bulgar...

the Ruler of Great Bulgaria and Ketrades - character of John of Nikiu work - Kazan: Institute of History of Academy of Science of Republic of Tatarstan...

during the reign of Tsar Peter I in the 10th century. It most probably arose in the region of Kutmichevitsa, today part of the region of Macedonia. The...

of the Bulgars, led by Asparuh, moved south to the northeastern Balkans. There they secured Byzantine recognition of their right to settle south of the...

църква, romanized: Bûlgarska pravoslavna cûrkva), legally the Patriarchate of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Българска патриаршия, romanized: Bûlgarska patriarshiya)...

Ohrid Literary School or Ohrid-Devol Literary school was one of the two major cultural centres of the First Bulgarian Empire, along with the Preslav Literary...

newly established Latin Empire in the Battle of Adrianople. His nephew Ivan Asen II defeated the Despotate of Epiros and made Bulgaria a regional power again...

The Eyalet of Rumeli, or Eyalet of Rumelia (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت روم ایلی, romanized: Eyālet-i Rūm-ėli), known as the Beylerbeylik of Rumeli until 1591...

and the Despotate of Epirus in the Balkans. As a result of the conflicts the Bulgarian Empire expanded its territory taking control of most of the Balkan...

eastern Bulgaria (Despotate of Dobruja) along with Gagauz people. The arrival of the Albanians was connected to the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774. During...

680–971 Byzantine Empire 971–1186 Second Bulgarian Empire 1186–1356 Despotate of Dobruja 1356–1419 Ottoman Empire 1419–1878 Romania 1878–1918 (de facto until...

primary military body of the First and the Second Bulgarian Empires, and some Puppet states of the former, like the Despotate of Dobruja. During the first...

killer of Tsar Ivan Asen I and rebel Ivanko (despot), ruler of the Despotate of Dobruja from 1385 to 1389, and again from 1393 to 1399 Ivanko Farolfi...

to the rank of protostrator, and in that year dealt a crushing defeat near Selymbria on the forces of Dobrotitsa of the Despotate of Dobruja, who had been...

Christianization of Bulgaria was the process by which 9th-century medieval Bulgaria converted to Christianity. It reflected the need of unity within the...

existence of Yugoslavia, ceded nearly all of its Macedonian territory to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and had to give Dobruja back to Romania...

first half of the 14th centuries, the territory of the Archbishopric was contested by the Byzantine Empire, the Latin Empire, the Despotate of Epirus, the...

established in the capital of Bulgaria Tarnovo. It was part of the Tarnovo School of Art which was characteristic for the culture of the Second Bulgarian Empire...