Asparukh's son Tervel Caesar completed the conquest of Attica and the Pelloponese and invaded the coastal regions of Anatolia. By adopting many Roman customs and the title of Caesar he reconciled the urban Greek population to his rule, providing internal stability for years to come. His successors would transform Bulgaria into a superpower of the region, even after the end of expansion into Asia.
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| - Asparukh's son Tervel Caesar completed the conquest of Attica and the Pelloponese and invaded the coastal regions of Anatolia. By adopting many Roman customs and the title of Caesar he reconciled the urban Greek population to his rule, providing internal stability for years to come. His successors would transform Bulgaria into a superpower of the region, even after the end of expansion into Asia.
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| - The First Bulgarian Empire at its height in AD 770.
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| - Greeks
- Bulgars
- South Slavs
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| - Βασιλεια Βουλγαριων
- българско царство
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| - Islam
- Tengriism
- Chalcedonian Christianity
- Slavic paganism
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| - Constantinople
- Skopje
- Varna
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| - Asparukh's son Tervel Caesar completed the conquest of Attica and the Pelloponese and invaded the coastal regions of Anatolia. By adopting many Roman customs and the title of Caesar he reconciled the urban Greek population to his rule, providing internal stability for years to come. His successors would transform Bulgaria into a superpower of the region, even after the end of expansion into Asia. In 825 Emperor Omurdag tried to make Islam the official religion of Bulgaria, but backed down after the move sparked fierce rebellions among the Greeks of Europe. However, his grandson Presian I and great-grandson Boris I renewed the attempt in the 840s, and by the end of the century Islam had become mainstream in place of the traditional paganism. By the 11th century the power balance had shifted. Bulgaria had begun to stagnate, rocked by endless civil wars and invasions by Magyars and Khazars, while conversely a newly-resurgent Rome had restored its finances with African assistance and was eager to reclaim its old territories. Slowly the Asian frontier was pushed back and raids on coastal towns became commonplace, until in 1033 a Greek rebellion in Achaea declared for Rome and invited Roman troops in to reconquer Greece. In June 1055 days of rioting in Constantinople forced Petar II to flee the capital, upon which the Greek population opened the watergate and allowed the Roman fleet in Bithynia to take the city. The rump Bulgarian state managed to hold on to Macedonia and Moesia by paying tribute and swearing allegiance to Rome, but it was finally conquered in 1110 by Alexios I Komnenos in retaliation for Bulgaria's assistance to the Great Crusade. Nevertheless the Bulgarian people lived on, never forgetting their past glories. The Second Bulgarian Empire began in the 17th century with a rebellion against Roman rule, intending to be the direct successor to the First Empire, and lasted until 1961 when it was replaced by the Republic of Bulgaria.
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