Bulgarian Empire

[Germanicus]

Originally Posted by Heretik

Sounds turkish.

Spot on Heretik...........

its a saying that the sipahi cavalry used in the Ottoman army, i believe it is still used in turkey.

[ImperiaBG]

Originally Posted by ArMakedon

Значи вашето потекло е од кај Каспиското езеро?

Аз съм македонски българин и нямам нищо общо със антични македонски еничари като теб..

[ImperiaBG]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoZ0JXTI4os&feature=related[/media] Macedonia is Bulgaria!

[ArMakedon]

Originally Posted by ImperiaBG

Аз съм македонски българин и нямам нищо общо със антични македонски еничари като теб..

Не си ти "Bulg-Aryan"?

[ImperiaBG]

Originally Posted by ArMakedon

Не си ти "Bulg-Aryan"?

Аз съм македонски българин от Вардарска Македония, И съм администратора на най големият български националистически форум. А ти си сърбоман - еничар последовател на Лазо Колишевски нали?

[ImperiaBG]

Македонист - сърбоман ли си?

[ImperiaBG]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6__dwagBTA&feature=related[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDPytzYt-OM&feature=related[/media] FYROM - The Politics of terror against Bulgarians

[ArMakedon]

Originally Posted by ImperiaBG

Аз съм македонски българин от Вардарска Македония, И съм администратора на най големият български националистически форум. А ти си сърбоман - еничар последовател на Лазо Колишевски нали?

И тоа треба нешто да ми значи дека си админисратор таму каде што си.
Ај со деца не дискутирам. И треба да ти одговорам сега исто со клипчиња. Па јас сум сериозен човек. Ајде малку поиграј counter strike да оладиш малку.

Јас сум внук на Кузман Јосифоски ако толку те интересира.

[ImperiaBG]

Originally Posted by ArMakedon

И тоа треба нешто да ми значи дека си админисратор таму каде што си.
Ај со деца не дискутирам. И треба да ти одговорам сега исто со клипчиња. Па јас сум сериозен човек. Ајде малку поиграј counter strike да оладиш малку.

Јас сум внук на Кузман Јосифоски ако толку те интересира.

По точно си внук на Юда Искариотски .. Македония е българска!

[ArMakedon]

Originally Posted by ImperiaBG

По точно си внук на Юда Искариотски .. Македония е българска!

You are Ortodoh, I remmembered
Banned everywere.

[MacedonecBG]

Originally Posted by ArMakedon

You are Ortodoh, I remmembered
Banned everywere.

ArMakedon vie ste enichar i predavnik Ova vie ste mrasen srboman! Macedonia is Bulgaria! No insults please

[ArMakedon]

Originally Posted by MacedonecBG

ArMakedon vie ste enichar i predavnik Ova vie ste mrasen srboman! Macedonia is Bulgaria! Fukc you Enat!

Shoud i report this insults?

I will not reply on this bad language

[ImperiaBG]

Античен марсиански разбираш ли еничарино?

[ImperiaBG]

Siege of Tarnovo The siege of Tarnovo occurred in the spring of 1393 and resulted in a decisive Ottoman victory. With the fall of its capital, the Bulgarian Empire was reduced down to a few fortresses along the Danube Tarnovo exceeded all Bulgarian towns by its size, its treasures, and its partly natural, partly artificial fortifications. Therefore, the Turks attacked this centre of Bulgaria first . The battle In the spring of 1393, Bayazid gathered his troops from Asia, crossed Helespont and joined with his western army; probably that included some Christian rulers from Macedonia. He entrusted the main command to his son Celebi, and ordered him to depart for Tarnovo. Suddenly, the town was besieged from all sides. The Turks threatened the citizens with fire and death if they dis not surrender.

The population resisted but eventually surrendered after a three-month siege, following an attack from the direction of Hisar, on July 17, 1393. The Christian priests were immediately expelled from the churches, and were replaced with Turkish imams. The Turks captured also the kivot with the Old Testament, and the relics of Christian saints; the last were thrown to be eaten by the dogs or burned. The Patriarch's church "Ascension of Christ" was turned into a mosque, the rest of the churches were also turned to mosques, baths, or stables. All palaces and churches of Trapezitsa were burned down and destroyed to the ground. The same fate expected the tzar palaces of Tsarevets; however, parts of their walls and towers were left standing until 17th century.

In the absence of Tsar Ivan Shishman, who attempted to fight the Turks elsewhere, leading the remnants of his troops to the fortress of Nikopol, the main Bulgarian leader in the town was Patriarch Evtimiy. He went to the Turkish camp with the intention of assuaging the Turkish commander. When Celebi saw the Patriarch approaching , serenely and calmly, as though all horrors of war were only wall pictures, Bayazid's son stood up, greeted him kindly, offered him a seat, and listened to his pleas; however, afterwards he fulfilled very little of his promises.

Subsequently thrown out of his patriarchal home in Tsarevets, Evtimiy moved to the little church under the hill which he devoted to the Saints Apostles Peter and Paul; there he tried to encourage the citizens with kind words and consolation.

Celebi left the town after appointing a local commander who "made a storm, stronger and more terrible than the first one, the remembrance of which causes people to suffocate and shiver." The town commander used treachery to get rid of the bolder and more warlike Bulgarians because he knew that he would be safer if they were dead. He gathered all eminent citizens and boyars under pretence that he wants advice from them on some common activities. When they gathered, unsuspecting, a wholesale massacre was carried out. No one was spared, neither old nor young, and no one asked for mercy. All of them, 110 people, were killed. The ground was covered with blood, and the corpses were thrown in the fields outside the town.

Evtimiy was imprisoned in a dungeon. The pasha ordered to strip him of his priest's garb, to take him to the town wall and behead him publicly, so that everybody sees the death of their leader. The kind old man bent his head down to be cut off but (as the legend has it ) there was a miracle: the hand of the executioner hung in the air, horror overtook the pasha and all the Turks, and they freed Evtimiy. Later, Bayazid sent an order to move to the East all citizens of Tarnovo who belonged to more eminent families, who were richer, and more beautiful. Then they sent Evtimiy on exile in Thrace. The Patriarch left Tarnovo, surrounded by his expelled fellow citizens, and leaning on his crozier, bitterly mourned the fate of his fatherland. The sight was such that even the stones wept.

Fathers parted with their children, brothers parted with their sisters forever. At the south side of the Balkans, the Turks who guarded this sad procession, ordered Evtimiy to separate from the others. All exiles kneeled around the Patriarch, kissed his hands, called him "father", women put their children before him. Happy were those who were able to touch their lips to the end of his dress; some plucked the grass at the place where he stood, and those who were away from him, cried bitterly after receiving his last blessings. Evtimiy advised them to preserve their Christian faith, kneeled among them and prayed; then he stood up and blessed them for the last time. When someone asked him who will guard Bulgarians from then on, Evtimiy answered "the blessed Trinity, now and for ever", and the Turks led him away. The exiles of the Mitropoly of the Asens disappeared without a trace in the center of Asia Minor; they probably fell to the swords of Tamerlanes hordes, who turned half of Asia Minor into a desert.

Evtimiy lived out his days in Thrace where he preached all the time in towns and villages, in houses, and fields; he preached against conversion to Islam and taught moral values. He gave to the poor the money that boyars and their women lavished on him; the testament was his only treasure. This last Tarnovo patriarch died in exile and was canonised as a national saint of his people.

The citizens of Tarnovo that remained in the town were forced to witness the horrible, in the literal sense of the word, "complete devastation of the town". Turkish colonists occupied Tsarevets which from then on was called Hisar; they terrorised all other citizens from there. The disciples of Evtimiy dispersed to Russia and Serbia, taking with them Bulgarian books, in the same way as the Greek learned men enriched the West with the old classics. Many merchants and boyars converted to Islam. The famous cathedral "Saints Forty Martyrs", built by Ivan Asen II, somewhat damaged after the battle, was turned into mosque; both Christians and Muslims believe until this day that in the eve of Saint Forty Martyrs (March 9), miracles are happen in there. Its minaret often fell down, and earlier in 20 century they found that the reason for this are the tombs of tsars and national saints found underneath.

The fall of Tarnovo and the exile of patriarch Evtimiy mark the destruction of the Bulgarian national church. As early as August 1394, the Constantinople patriarch appointed the Moldovan mitropolite to carry the episcopal trebes in Tarnovo where he came the following year. In 1402, Tarnovo had its own mitropolite, subjected to the Byzantine patriarch.

[ImperiaBG]

KING(TZAR) SAMUEL
THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL (997-1014) In 997, Emperor Roman died in captivity in Constantinople. With his death, the line of rulers started by Krum ended as Roman had no children. No legitimate heirs to the Bulgarian crown remained alive, and, due to the waging war with Byzantium, the throne could not be left vacant for a long time. The choice fell upon the person with closest relations to the deceased emperor and his long-standing military commander. Thus, in the same year Samuil was proclaimed Emperor of Bulgaria.The establishment of a new dynasty required international recognition. The constant war with the Byzantine Empire meant definitely that such recognition could not be received from Constantinople, so the only possible alternative was Rome. The act of recognition from the pope would also mean a serious blow to the Byzantine positions in the Balkans, which was profitable for both sides, and Samuil possibly received his imperial crown from Pope Gragory V.In 998 Samuil launched a major campaign against the Serbian principality of Duklja to prevent an eventual alliance between prince Jovan Vladimir and the Byzantines. When the Bulgarian troops reached Dalmatia, the Serbian prince withdrew to the mountains along with his people. The Bulgarian emperor left part of the army at the foot of the mountains and led the remaining soldiers inland to besiege the Ulchinj fortress. Samuil wanted to avoid bloodshed and asked Jovan Vladimir to surrender. After the refusal of the prince, some Serb nobles offered their services to the Bulgarians and, when it became clear that further resistance was fruitless, the Serbs surrendered. Jovan Vladimir was sent into exile to Samuil's palaces in Prespa After this success, the Bulgarian troops went through Dalmatia, advanced towards Kotor, took control of the town and set off to Dubrovnik. The attempts to seize that town remained unsuccessful and Samuil devastated the surrounding villages.

Samuil's daughter Theodora Kosara fell in love with the handsome prisoner and asked her father to allow her to marry him. Samuil gave his assent and Jovan Vladimir married the Bulgarian princess, after which he was sent back to his lands as a Bulgarian official along with his uncle Dragomir, who was a trusted man of Samuil. Meanwhile, Princess Miroslava lost her heart to another noble captive, Ashot, and threatened her father that she would commit suicide if not allowed to marry the Byzantine noble. Samuil conceded and appointed Ashot as governor of the important Drach Province, but later Ashot betrayed Samuil and persuaded his wife to board a ship and flee to Constantinople, where their treason was generously rewarded. At the same time, Samuil allied with the Kingdom of Hungary. The alliance was fastened with a marriage between Gavril Radomir and the daughter of the Hungarian Ruling Prince Geza.In 1001, Basil II sent a large army under Thoedorokan and Nikephoros Xifios to the north of the Balkan mountains to seize the main Bulgarian fortress in the area. The Byzantine troops seized Preslav as well as Pliska and returned intact. Thus, north-eastern Bulgaria fell under Byzantine rule for a second time. In the next year, the Byzantines struck in the opposite direction. Basill II marched through Thessaloniki to the west to tear off Thessaly and the southernmost parts of the Bulgarian Empire. When the enemy armies reached the strong fortress of Veria, its commander Dobromir, who was married to one of Samuil's nieces, did not put up any resistance and voluntarily changed sides. Without a fight, Basil captured the fortress of Kolidron, but its commander Dimitar Tihon managed to pull back with his soldiers and joined Samuil. The next town, Servia, did not fall so easily.
The Byzantines made use of the difficulties which the Bulgarians faced to the north. In 1003, a large army led by Basil II reached the walls of Vidin, northwestern Bulgaria's most important town. The siege lasted for eight whole months, but the invaders could not capture the fortress by force.Greek fire. While Basil's forces were engaged in fighting there, Samuil struck in the opposite direction: on 15 August he attacked Adrianople, plundered the whole area and victoriously returned. The commanders of the town skilfully repulsed any attempt of the enemy to break its defence and managed to cope with the The Byzantines persistently continued the siege and in the end the town was seized due to the betrayal of the local bishop. After his major success, Basil II decided to go back to Constantinople, but he feared an encounter with the Bulgarian army on the main road to his capital and chose another route. The Byzantines marched south through the Morava valley and reached one of the key Bulgarian cities, Skopje, in 1004. The Bulgarian army was camping on the opposite side of the Vardar River and Basil II attacked it and defeated Samuil in the same way as at Sprecheios. Thereupon, the Byzantines continued their way to the east and besieged the strong fortress of Pernik. Its governor Krakra was distinguished with his military skills and was not seduced by Basil's promises for a noble title and wealth. Krakra successfully defended the fortress and after the Byzantines suffered heavy losses, they were eventually forced to withdraw to Thrace.
In the same year, Samuil undertook a march against Thessaloniki. He ambushed and captured its governor, Ioan Hald, but this success could not compensate for the losses which the Bulgarians had suffered in the past four years. BULGARIANS DEFEAT BYZANITES IN THESALLONIKI BATTLE The setbacks in the war inevitably had a demoralizing effect on some of Samuil's military commanders, especially among the captured Byzantine nobles. The governor of Drach, Ashot, established contacts with the local Byzantines and the influential Ioan Chrisilios, who was Samuil's father-in-law. He boarded one of the enemy ships which beleaguered the town and fled to Constantinople with his wife. In the meantime, Chrisilios surrendered Drach to the Byzantine chief Eustatios Daphnomil in 1005 and thus secured the title of patricius for his sons.
Between 1006 and 1013, neither side achieved any significant success and there was no change in the balance of power. In 1006–1007, Basil II penetrated deep into Bulgarian territory and in 1009 Samuil's forces were defeated at Kreta to the east of Thessaloniki.The Byzantine emperor launched annual campaigns into Bulgarian territory, devastating and ravaging everything on his way. Although there was still no decisive battle, it was clear that the end of the Bulgarian resistance was imminent; the evidence for that was the fierceness and bitterness of the military engagements and the constant campaigns of both sides which devastated the Bulgarian and Byzantine lands.
The outcome came in 1014. Samuil knew that the Byzantines usually used the valley of the Strumitsa River for their invasions in his realm. He decided to build a thick wooden wall in the gorges around the village of Klyuch (Kleidion , "key") to bar the way of the enemy. When Basil II set off for his next campaign in the summer of 1014, his army was stopped and the assaults against the wall were repulsed with heavy casualties. The Byzantines spent several days in futile attempts to break through the defence. Then, one of the Byzantine commanders, the governor of Plovdiv Nicephorus Xiphias, found a by-pass and on 29 July attacked the Bulgarians from the rear.Despite the desperate resistance and the personal bravery of Gavril Radomir, the Byzantines overwhelmed the Bulgarian army and captured around 14,000 soldiers.According other sources the captured Bulgarians ware 15,000.Basil II immediately sent forces under his favourite commander Theophylactus Botaniates to pursue the surviving Bulgarians, but they were defeated after an audacious counter-attack by Gavril Radomir, who personally killed Botaniates. After that, under the order of Basil II, the captured men were blinded; there was one left one-eyed to lead every one hundred blinded home. They were sent back to Samuil, who, at that sight, had a heart attack and died two days later, on 15 October1014 This savagery gave the Byzantine emperor his byname Boulgaroktonos ("Bulgar-slayer"). Some historians theorize it was the death of his favourite commander that infuriated Basil II to blind the captured soldiers.

[Trefelin]

Radvan ce da ce zapoznaem!

Sorry, that's all the Bulgarian that I know.