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    Default Re: Bulgar success over Byzantium

    Quote Originally Posted by edyzmedieval
    Basil II the Macedonian(or Bulgar slayer), which is my favourite emperor(sorry guys!!! the bulgars) completely destroyed the Bulgar state.

    But the weakness of his successors on the throne of Byzantium allowed the Bulgars to rise again...
    And so, on a long run, the Byzantines were defeated(unfortunately)....
    What is now the country of Macedonia was part of the Bulgarian Kingdom then. Basil II could not have been the "Macedonian" slayer, because the Macedonian people (of Greek origin) ceized to exist long before the Slavs and the Bulgars of khan Kuber (son of khan Kubrat the ruler of Great Bulgar) settled the geographic region called Macedonia. No state called Macedonia could be found in any historical document earlier than 1945 when the Yugoslavian Communist Party realized that the Bulgarian people in SFRM could not be serbianized so they tried to invent this artificial nation of Macedonians. Anyway that's a different topic.
    Please do not use the term Bulgar, as it refers to the Protobulgarian part of the Bulgarian nation. Before Bulgaria accepted Christianity from Byzantium in 865, the Slavic tribes of Antae and Slavinii, the Bulgars and some Thracian tribes all lived under the rule of the khan but were not a homogenous people. After the common religion was accepted gradually through intermarriages a coherent people was created - the Bulgarians.
    So Basil II is the slayer of the Bulgarians, which by the time of King Samuil was pretty much a Slavic state, and Samuil along with his brother Aaron ruled over Sofia and the nearabouts. Later Samuil withdrew to Ohrid, which was a major Bulgarian city by that time (King Boris sent St. Kiril and St. Metodiy's pupil Kliment to Ohrid to form a school there, which signifies the degree of importance the Bulgarian ruler considered that city with).
    Last edited by BalkanTourist; 11-09-2005 at 17:52.
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