1018, a series of conflicts between the Bulgarian Empire and the Byzantine Empire led to the gradual reconquest of Bulgaria by the Byzantines, who thus re-established...

Byzantine–Bulgarian wars were a series of conflicts fought between the Byzantine Empire and Bulgaria which began after the Bulgars conquered parts of...

of the Fatimids and secures a ten-year truce 1014: Battle of Kleidion decisive victory over the Bulgarians under Samuel. 1018: Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria...

formerly Bulgarian lands over the course of the Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria, from the 970s onwards. Following the completion of the conquest of Bulgaria in...

to underscore the Byzantine victory, established the Archbishopric of Ohrid by downgrading the Bulgarian patriarchate to the rank of the archbishopric...

The Theme of Bulgaria (Greek: Θέμα Βουλγαρίας, romanized: Thema Boulgarias) was a province of the Byzantine Empire established by Emperor Basil II after...

kind of compromise with the Byzantines and quickly began to follow the determined policy of his predecessors against the ongoing Byzantine conquest. Basil...

the Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria in 1018 by lowering the rank of the autocephalous Bulgarian Patriarchate due to its subjugation to the Byzantines. In...

Liberation of Bulgaria is the historical process as a result of the Bulgarian Revival. In Bulgarian historiography, the liberation of Bulgaria refers to...

brother of Theodor and Asen, who led the anti-Byzantine uprising of the Bulgarians and Vlachs in 1185. The uprising ended with the restoration of Bulgaria as...

1341–1347 Byzantine civil war of 1373–1379 Byzantine–Genoese War (1348–1349) Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria Byzantine–Norman wars...

of Crete came under the rule of the Byzantine Empire in two periods: the first extends from the late antique period (3rd century) to the conquest of the...

Republic and the Roman and Byzantine Empires. To read about the background of these events, see Ancient Rome and History of the Byzantine Empire. Following tradition...

Byzantines and to launch offensive campaigns into their territory. In the late 10th century, the Bulgarian armies conquered the Serb principality of Duklja...

testimony of the Namelist. According to the Byzantine sources, Asparuh was a younger son of Kubrat, who had established a spacious state ("Great Bulgaria") in...

(Bulgarian: Теодор-Петър; died in 1197), was the first emperor or tsar of the restored Bulgarian Empire from 1185 to 1197. He hails from the Byzantine...

re-establishment of the Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty, after an interval of 57 years where the city had been made the capital of the occupying...

patron of the Byzantine city of Thessaloniki, and claimed that the Saint had ceased to favour the Byzantines: "God had decided to free the Bulgarians and...

680–1355 Byzantine–Bulgarian wars 680 Battle of Ongal 695–717 Twenty Years' Anarchy 708 Byzantine–Bulgarian battle of Anchialus 711–718 Umayyad conquest of Hispania...

the Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria. In the following 150 years the Byzantines systematically destroyed all texts in Old Bulgarian language. None of the...

resisting Byzantine conquest for more than 40 years. Sometimes the realm of the Cometopuli is called Western Bulgarian Kingdom or Western Bulgarian Empire...

Bulgaria, and the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines encouraged the Rus' ruler Sviatoslav to attack Bulgaria, leading to the defeat of the Bulgarian forces and...

Theodore Mangaphas. The Byzantines for their part suspected him of conspiring with the breakaway Byzantine provinces of Serbia and Bulgaria as Frederick Barbarossa...

had fully subjugated completely the Bulgarians in the decade before his death (see Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria). By Basil's death in 1025, Greece was...

the Bulgarians in the battle of the Gates of Trajan. The city eventually fell to the Byzantine Empire in 1018, following the Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria...

Siege of Rome (1001) – Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria Siege of Voden (1001) Siege of Taq (1002) Siege of Vidin (1002) – Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria Siege...

prominent Byzantine general of the early 11th century, active in the Balkans. He served with distinction in the final stages of the Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria...

The fall of Constantinople, also known as the conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire...

the Byzantine Greeks, who inhabited the heartland of the later empire: modern Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, and Sicily, and portions of southern Bulgaria, Crimea...

Empire, Ivan Vladislav (r. 1015–1018), who after the Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria entered Byzantine service, until his involvement in a conspiracy to usurp...