Empire1185 – 1396 · 211 years

Bulgarian Empire (Second)

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Second Bulgarian Empire was a medieval Bulgarian state that existed between 1185 and 1422. A successor to the First Bulgarian Empire, it reached the peak of its power under Tsars Kaloyan and Ivan Asen II before gradually being conquered by the Ottomans in the late 14th century.

Wikipedia: Second Bulgarian Empire·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Reconstructed borders

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps (Ourednik)
SNAPSHOT1300
POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire6

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Wars of the Second Bulgarian Empire1185–1396
Regional
Battle of Arcadiopolis1194
Regional
Battle of Klokotnitsa1230
Regional
Battle of Velbuzhde1330
Regional
Wars of Stefan Dušan1331–55
Regional
Battle of Samokov1371
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1185 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Bulgarian Empire (Second) (1185 – 1396). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/europe-bulgarian-second · Sources & methodology