Empire681 CE – 1018 · 337 years
Bulgarian Empire (First)
Overview
The First Bulgarian Empire was a medieval state that existed in Southeastern Europe between the 7th and 11th centuries AD. It was founded in 680–681 after a group of Bulgars, led by Asparuh, moved south to the northeastern Balkans, and secured Byzantine recognition and their right to settle south of the Danube by defeating – possibly with the help of local South Slavic tribes – the Byzantine army led by Constantine IV. During the 9th and 10th century, Bulgaria reached the height of its power and stretched from the Danube Bend to the Black Sea and from the Dnieper River to the Adriatic Sea, becoming a major power capable of competing with the Byzantine Empire.
Wikipedia: First Bulgarian Empire·CC BY-SA 4.0
Borders & accuracy
Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.
- SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
- DETAILhistorical-basemaps (Ourednik)
- SNAPSHOT800 CE
- POLITY TYPEstate
Wars of this empire5
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.
- Major conflict
- Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars681 CE–1018Significant · 500K dead
- Significant · 50K dead
- Battle of Trajans Gate986 CERegional
- Battle of Spercheios996 CERegional
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 681 CE and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Bulgarian Empire (First) (681 CE – 1018). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/europe-bulgarian-first · Sources & methodology