The Battle of Rusokastro (Bulgarian: Битка при Русокастро, Greek: Μάχη τοῦ Ῥουσοκάστρου) occurred on July 18, 1332 near the village of Rusokastro, Bulgaria...

a secure home. He was followed by 30,000 to 50,000 Bulgars. After the Battle of Ongal, Asparukh founded the First Bulgarian Empire, which was officially...

revolt in Flanders 1324 War of Saint-Sardos 1326–1332 Polish–Teutonic War 1330 Hungarian-Wallachian War 1332 Battle of Rusokastro 1333–1338 Burke Civil War...

the state to its greatest extent. After the annihilation of the Byzantine army in the Battle of Anchialus in 917, the Bulgarians laid siege to Constantinople...

Nicomedia in 1337. Defeats of the Byzantines in battles at Pelekanon and Philokrene. 1332: Battle of Rusokastro, the last major battle of the Byzantine–Bulgarian...

Bulgarian Thrace, but the new tsar Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria defeated Byzantine forces at the Battle of Rusokastro on 18 July 1332. Andronikos III secured peace...

of Nicaea – Ottomans capture the city of Nicaea 1332 – Battle of Rusokastro – Bulgarians defeat the Byzantines 1333–37 – Siege of Nicomedia – Fall of...

battle of Rusokastro, recovering the captured territories. In 1344, the Bulgarians entered the Byzantine civil war of 1341–47 on the side of John V Palaiologos...

school was also a centre of translation, mostly of Byzantine authors. Finally, it was a centre of poetry, of painting, and of painted ceramics. The school...

official in the First Bulgarian Empire. The holder of the post was the commander of the garrison of the capital and was the third most important person...

of Rusokastro the Bulgarian emperor Ivan Alexander defeated the Byzantine army under emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos in the battle of Rusokastro....

before a battle the Bulgars "used to practice enchantments and jests and charms and certain auguries". Liutprand of Cremona reported that Baian, son of Simeon...

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

headed to take advantage of the Bulgarian weakness. However, in 1332 the Bulgarians defeated the Byzantines in the battle of Rusokastro and regained many territories...

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...

was eliminated but the founder of the Bulgarian state Khan Asparukh perished in one of the battles in 700. On the turn of the 9th century, the Bulgarian...

secured it after the Battle of Varna. At the very end of the 14th century, German traveller Johann Schiltberger described the lands of the former Bulgarian...

Ages. Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. "Bogomils" at St. Pachomius Library Ehrman, Bart D. Lost Christianities: The battles for scripture and the faiths...

Battle of Dibaltum. In the Middle Ages, there were important settlements in the area: the fortress Skafida, Poros, Rusokastron (Battle of Rusokastro)...

Momchil's army in the Battle of Peritor near his capital Xanthi. Sources attest that the independent ruler perished in the battle without leaving a successor...

crucial Battle of Ongal in 680, the peace treaty with Byzantium in 681, and the establishment of a permanent Bulgarian capital at Pliska south of the Danube...

Bulgarians in the aftermath of the Battle of Rusokastro on 18 July 1332. Momchilov, Dimcho (1991). "A Supposition About the Location of Medieval Ktenia". Historical...

around the town of Prespa. Near the end of his rule, the Byzantines got the upper hand again, and under Basil II they won the Battle of Kleidion and completely...

The Tsardom of Vidin (Bulgarian: Видинско Царство, romanized: Vidinsko Tsarstvo) was a medieval Bulgarian state centred in the city of Vidin from 1369–1396...

initial expansionist ambitions of the Latin Empire were crushed only one year after its foundation after the Battle of Adrianople in 1205, where its Emperor...

The Hungarian occupation of Vidin was a period in the history of the city and region of Vidin (Hungarian: Bodony), today in northwestern Bulgaria, when...

the theme of Paristrion of the Byzantine Empire, caused by a tax increase. It began on 26 October 1185, the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki...

the Battle of Rusokastro. The contested cities surrendered to Ivan Alexander, while Andronikos III sought refuge within the walls of Rusokastro. 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...

The kavkhan (Medieval Greek: καυχάνος; Bulgarian: кавха̀н) was one of the most important officials in the First Bulgarian Empire. According to the generally...