How did Bulgaria overtake the Eastern Roman Empire? ⚔️ The Conquest of Simeon the Great

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[darthveatay]

Finally someone does a video on Simeon the Great

[petarpanayotov]

The battle of Achelous deserves a video of its own.

[mattimatti]

Bulgaria has a great history. Greetings from Albania 🇦🇱❤️🇧🇬

[giorgijioshvili]

"Simeon hired another nomadic people the Pechenegs to attack the Magyars"

Byzantines: Wait that's illigel

[vladimirvucetic]

Greetings for Bulgarian brothers from Serbia. They were badasses at the time.

[historyrhymes]

Pleasure working with you on this one!

[yoghurtmaster]

Its kinda sad how underrated the influence of the first bulgarian empire is in the mainstream hustirical narrative thank you guys soo much for making this video

[sustaingainz]

Something about seeing Bulgarians and franks sharing a border looks so cool

[Great-History-Tv-]

As a bulgarian i am proud that people actually care about our great history.

[b.s.]

I would like to point out how important Simeon the Great is for understanding Eastern European history. Simeon the Great was the first person in history to bear the title tsar (Slavic for Ceaser, i.e. Emperor). During his rule the Bulgarian empire experienced it's Golden Age, with much literature and cultural output. The invention, spread of Cyrillic and the already ongoing Christianization of the Slavs was greatly hastened due to the Bulgarian empire. Old church Slavonic, the language that Cyrillic was written in, was to become the liturgical language and the lingua franca of Orthodox Slavs throughout Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. Furthermore, Bulgaria set a precedent after the 927 establishment and recognition of the Bulgarian patriarchate, with every nation which accepted Christianity (Constantinople rite/Eastern Orthodoxy) establishing it's own patriarchate. Examples are Serbian and Russian empire later on.
Furthermore in the 10th century the First Bulgarian empire was the most urbanized region in Europe alongside Italy and Preslav (the capital) was the second largest Christian city after Constantinople. (source is First Bulgarian Empire -wikipedia). In understanding Eastern Orthodox civilization, The First Bulgarian Empire is perhaps second only to the Eastern Romans themselves and the Russians. Thus, Simeon the Great is truly the Charlemagne of the East.

Edit: Boris, his father, also played a significant role in establishing the Golden Age.

[IL_Bulgaro]

Simeon the great was one of the really important emperors in European history.

[thecrusaderhistorian]

That's it. I am adding Simeon the Great to my personal list of the Top 5 Greatest Rulers of the Middle Ages.

Great video!

[coltonstrickland]

There was a huge hole in my head for what was going on in this part of the world in this time period and you painted the picture perfectly. Love the work

[l.k.]

-Academician Omelyan Pritsak (specialist in medieval history) from Harvard University told COMPARED TO THE DESCENDANT OF ATTILES - KING SIMEON I THE BYZANTINE EMPEROR LOOKED LIKE A PARVENU ”

- The French historian Alfred Rambo - "Tsar Simeon was Charlemagne for Bulgaria, but more educated than our Charlemagne and much happier than him, because he laid the foundations of a national literature."

[nicolaeadrian]

respect Bulgaria from Romania bro ... ez

[lustinlis]

When i read Bulgarian history... Its aways feel strange, how small nomadic tribe was able to defeat such a power like the Romans... I think there is a lot more behide the Bulgarian history from what we know today... Reading the history of the country it sound more like fiction than history... To achieve such victories i believe Bulgaria must be much older than 681 !

[Никола-щя]

The one of the most notorious medieval European monarchs. A great detailed video. Thank you and greetings from North Macedonia!

[hesse]

great history, much love from Romania

[rumenoff]

Happy to see Bulgarian history being shared. Great video!

[brandonbohr.]

Wow Bulgarian history is awesome. I like the reign of Simeon the Great.