Tsar Simeon Biography

Article from the Encyclopedia "Tree": Drevo-info. The son of the Equal -to -the -Apostles Prince Boris I. Simeon was brought up in Byzantium, where he stayed for 10 years, he studied at the famous Magnavra school in Constantinople. Thanks to the excellent knowledge of the Greek language and the culture of Simeon, they called the "semi -game." The rule of Simeon was marked by continuous wars with Byzantium, the result of which was the accession of the vast territories of the empire in the south and west to Bulgaria.

The first war broke out in the year due to a trade conflict. Byzantium managed to reflect the onslaught of the troops of Simeon, only entering into an alliance with the Hungarians, which entered the lower Dniens and the Danube, threatening Bulgaria. But already in the year, Simeon defeated the Byzantine army in Thrace, and in the Fessalonik reached the north of which, according to the agreement concluded in the same year, and a new Byzantine-Bulgarian border passed.

The new stage of Simeon’s wars with Byzantia began in the year, when Simeon began to implement the plan for the creation of a single Greek-Slavic Empire under his rule. Constantinople was forced to make concessions: an agreement was signed, according to which Simeon was recognized as “Vasilev t. The mother of Konstantin Zoya, who returned from exile, annulled this document, and the Bulgarians again invaded the territory of the empire.

In the year, the Byzantine army was nakedly defeated by Simeon on the Ahela River in Thrace near the city of Anhial. The Byzantine historian Lev Deacon, who visited the battlefield at the end of the 10th century, wrote bitterly with bitterness: "And now heaps of bones at Ankhial are still visible, where the army of Romans was then ingloriously cut." The consequences of defeat were catastrophic for the empire.

Bulgarian troops entered Greece, took Thebes. The situation changed with the advent of the energetic Roman Lakapin, who managed to organize resistance to the Bulgarians in Constantinople.

Despite the persuasion of the Patriarch of Constantinople, Nikolai Mostik, who begged Simeon to stop bloodshed, he believed that there was a convenient moment to realize his plan to seize the Byzantine capital. The stubborn struggle continued until the death of the first Bulgarian king, the Bulgarian army has repeatedly appeared in the vicinity of Constantinople.

The seal of Simeon the Great. But in the year, Simeon’s troops were defeated by the Croats, who entered into an alliance with the Empire; In the same year he died. The unprecedented heyday of the Bulgarian medieval culture is associated with the board of Simeon Architectural ensembles of the new Bulgarian capital of Preslav, the “golden age” of Old Bulgarian literature, the spread of Christianity and Byzantine education, prepared under his father Boris.

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