Bulgarian lands across the Danube
In Bulgarian historiography, the Bulgarian lands across the Danube, also called Transdanubian Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Отвъддунавска България), refer to territories under the control of the Bulgarian Empire north of the Danube. These territories today cover the territory of Romania and Moldova, eastern Hungary, Vojvodina in Serbia and Budjak in Ukraine.[1][2][3]
In the
Byzantine historians Bulgaria across the Danube. [4] Original information for the centuries-old Bulgarian rule there is scarce as the archives of the Bulgarian rulers were destroyed and little is mentioned for this area in Byzantine or Hungarian
manuscripts.
First Bulgarian Empire
After the defeat of
Dneper river (or possibly just the Dniester
river) to the east.
The Bulgarians' main rivals in the area were the
Timok river to the Black Sea
.
In 803
Dnester though possession of Transylvania
is debatable.
In 813 Khan Krum seized
Eastern Thrace. He took 50,000 captivities who were settled in Bulgaria across the Danube. The relocated population managed to maintain social cohesion in their new lands and even had its own governor named Kordylas.[5]
During the First Bulgarian Empire, the
Pliska-Preslav culture.[8]
Second Bulgarian Empire
There is evidence that the
Carpathians indicates a Bulgarian suzerainty over those lands, though Radu's imperative tone hints at a strong and increasing Wallachian autonomy.[9]
See also
References
- ^ THE ROLE AND ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION OF THE SO-CALLED "TRANSDANUBIAN BULGARIA", in Bulgarian; Vasilka Tăpkova-Zaimova
- ^ POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF MEDIEVAL BULGARIA. PART ONE FROM 681 TO 1018; Peter Koledarov
- ^ Political geography of the mediaeval Bulgarian state. Part II. From 1186 to 1396; Peter Koledarov
- ^ Трансилванските (седмиградските) българи. Етнос. Език. Етнонимия. Ономастика. Просопографии — Сто години след Любомир Милетич в Седмиградско
- ISBN 978-90-04-51586-4, retrieved 2024-03-13
- ^ a b Opreanu 2005, p. 127.
- ^ a b Spinei 2009, p. 87.
- ^ Плиска-Преслав: Прабългарската култура, Том 2, Българска академия на науките Археологически институт и музей, 1981.
- ^ Pavlov, Plamen. "For the northern border of the Second Bulgarian tsardom in the XIII-XIV century" (in Bulgarian). LiterNet. Retrieved 2009-10-08.; Plamen Pavlov
Works cited
- Opreanu, Coriolan Horaţiu (2005). "The North-Danube Regions from the Roman Province of Dacia to the Emergence of the Romanian Language (2nd–8th Centuries AD)". In Pop, Ioan-Aurel; Bolovan, Ioan (eds.). History of Romania: Compendium. Romanian Cultural Institute (Center for Transylvanian Studies). pp. 59–132. ISBN 978-973-7784-12-4.
- Spinei, Victor (2009). The Romanians and the Turkic Nomads North of the Danube Delta from the Tenth to the Mid-Thirteenth century. Koninklijke Brill NV. ISBN 978-90-04-17536-5.
Further reading
- Ian Mladjov, "Trans‐Danubian Bulgaria: Reality and Fiction", in Byzantine Studies/Etudes Byzantines, n.s. 3, 1998 [2000], 85–128.