First Tarnovo Uprising
First Tarnovo uprising | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Bulgarian rebels | Ottoman Empire | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Theodore Balina Ivan Shishman II Dionysus Rallis Pavel Đorđić Sorkočević brothers | Unknown | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
over 12,000 | Unknown | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Unknown | Unknown |
The First Tarnovo uprising (
The uprising was organized by religious leaders, as well as public figures and merchants. These included the Archbishop of Tarnovo
The invasion of
However, the Ottoman authorities reacted immediately and quickly recaptured the city using a regular army, brutally suppressing the uprising. It is unclear what the scale of the First Tarnovo Uprising was, but according to fragmentary information it may have included the regions of Ohrid,[citation needed] where the local archbishop was killed, as well as Sofia and Niš,[citation needed] where Austrian travellers mention seeing exposed dead bodies and severed human heads.[4]
As a consequence, about 16,000 Bulgarians fled centrally-governed Ottoman territory and crossed the Danube to settle in autonomous neighbouring Wallachia,[3] where they established a Bulgarian community.
See also
- Second Tarnovo Uprising, 1686
References and notes
- ^ Or Đorđević.
- ^ "History of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church" (in Bulgarian). Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Archived from the original on 2006-05-22. Retrieved 2006-09-09.
- ^ a b c "The Bulgarian anti-Ottoman uprisings. Anti-Ottoman resistance of the Bulgarian people — 15th-17th century" (in Bulgarian). Archived from the original on 2007-03-01. Retrieved 2006-09-09.
- ^ a b "First Tarnovo Uprising" (in Bulgarian). Rodovo nasledstvo. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2006-09-09.