The restored Bulgarian state founded by the Asen dynasty in 1185 after a revolt against Byzantium, reaching its zenith under Ivan Asen II before falling to the Ottoman Empire in 1396.
Fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1396 after the Bulgarian capital Tarnovo fell in 1393 and the last Bulgarian ruler, Tsar Ivan Sratsimir of Vidin, was captured by Sultan Bayezid I in 1396.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Second Bulgarian Empire — the shape you scrub through changes in 1185 · 1240.
Provides essential context for the Byzantine-Bulgarian rivalry that shaped the Second Empire's rise.
A modern, gripping single-volume history of the Crusades and the Latin East that frames these Aegean and Balkan states.