Medieval Bulgaria either didn't have "permanent counties" (i.e. relatively fixed borders) or we just don't know anything about them, as the sources for Bulgarian history are largely foreign ones...
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Medieval Bulgaria either didn't have "permanent counties" (i.e. relatively fixed borders) or we just don't know anything about them, as the sources for Bulgarian history are largely foreign ones...
If anyone's interested about Kaldellis' Byzantine republic idea (but can't read the book), you can check this episode from the History of Byzantium podcast. ;)
In regards to the Vlach rebels idea - there are no contemporary mentions of Vlachs north of the Danube. The only mentions of Vlachs in general are from the last century of the mod's timeframe (the...
I think it was already established that the medieval use of "rhomphaia" wasn't like the ancient one. Still, Dawson makes an amateurish mistake in equating the rhompaia with the falx and suggesting...
I think you're confusing us with Tzardoms. We have Serbia as a playable faction as well, but our end-date is several centuries before the times of Dushan.
It depends. There are expensive maces (and flails), but there certainly are also some cheaper ones, made from iron, bones, lead or even stones.
Eh, I've said it before, but - no, not really. The case of the Kometopouloi was (most likely) not a civil war or division between eastern and western Bulgarians - Eastern Bulgaria, as well as the...
Another option I've seen in some M&B mods is, instead of writing the full English name, to just put their "class" - f.e. "Shtitonostsi [LI]", "Konnitsi [LC]", "Bolyare [HC]" etc. (where LI=Light...
Here's the next chapter:
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Portrait of Tsar Simeon the Great by Dimitar Gyudzhenov,...
I wish I could say the same - it's hot in here as well, but I don't seem to be losing any pounds. Time for some exercises, I guess...
Inspired by Flieger's preview for the Eastern Franks, some time ago I had decided to try and write a somewhat more detailed, though still basic-enough description of the history of Bulgaria during...
Thanks, I got it! The stihiri might come in handy. They sound surprisingly Western to me though, kinda like Gregorian chants. Then again, as I said, I understand nothing from music, so... :)
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Thanks! I was asking, as I'm gathering some music for the South Slavic groups (Bulgaria, Serbia and Croatia) for the TGC mod as well, whose timeframe is earlier on (872-1071). Unfortunately, I know...
Do you have any medieval Bulgarian chants besides Ioan Kukuzel's? Perhaps something older (incl. Serbian)?
The term used is theriac (second-last row of the Greek text), though that doesn't seem much helpful either.
I give up! There's no point arguing with you! :unsure: I already showed you not a single one of your four sources actually supports your thesis, not to mention that your original claims about them...
This isn't too important, but I think you're confusing here the Emperor Nikephoros I Genikos (the one whose skull became a cup in 811) with the Patriarch Nikephoros I, who's one of the main sources...
The generally accepted theory is indeed that the Onogurs, Kutrigurs and Utigurs were some of the main branches of the Bulgar tribal union (or polyethnos, or supra-tribe, whatever you prefer). The...
Not necessarily. At least the Bulgarian wording (that I'm using) doesn't necessarily imply it, especially in that context where it could easily be understood as "made to leave". If we want to be sure...
And that was my question. If Greek doesn't use another form - then ok (though we're still open to the question of which was the original Slavic form and whether it was the northern Slavs who may have...
Not everyone would be certain even about such things. F.e. I recently read about an old story where the Macedonian government demanded apology from the EU ambassador for calling them Slavs. Likewise,...
I don't know, probably a crew similar to the Destructive Creation team here (the ones with the comic-popart version of the Soviet army monument).
Indeed, I rather like it (Glasgow's monument) myself. The cone even makes him look kinda like a wizard (wasn't Hogwarts somewhere in Scotland anyway?), which can only be an improvement upon the...
I don't have time to check your reply for the moment (will edit this post when I can, if there aren't any new ones), but I just wanted to say "Happy Vlasovden (on a 5-minute crook atm)!" A...
But "dvayse" is a quite modern phenomenon (only a few decades old), so even if we assume... Actually, sorry, I'm completely lost as to what we were arguing about on this one.
As I said in that...
Eh, as I already said, both dvadeset and dvayse mean exactly and absolutely the same thing - twenty. Dvadeset is simply the official form, while dvayse is its colloquial evolution.
Also, before we...
For the Second Bulgarian Empire, not the First. And I personally could agree with it, at least in regards to the period of the early Asenids. Though, of course, Niketas Choniates' "the Moesians, who...
Are you sure? In Bulgarian 23 is "dvadeset i tri" (or the more modern, shortened form "dvayse i tri"). And while "dvadeset" consists of "two/twice" + "ten" (so, indeed, it could be seen as "two-tens"...
Sorry about the minor necro (it's been only a few months anyway), but I can't help myself. From the producer of the Tsar Samuil with the Glowing Eyes monument, I present you... Tsar Ioan Sratsimir...
Macedonia.
Although I doubt Tzardoms needs any more music recommendations (I remember discussing this many years ago), especially in its current condition, I guess I'll pitch in with a few things. Of course, in...
Good one. Though perhaps the oldest mention of the name "Bulgaria" (i.e. exactly "Bulgaria", as a state, not simply "Bulgarians", as people) is from Constantine of Apamea during the Council of...
That is not necessarily so surprising. Ignoring the fact that composite bows were used by various other peoples even before that (though including such bows in burials is another matter indeed), the...
Perhaps you meant to say "Let me help you finish this mod!".
While there are several good candidates for "most important Bulgarian battle", there is one which is most obvious - the Battle of the Onglos in 680 - the battle which led to the conquest of Moesia...
Indeed, those are great quotes! Some of them would have to be split to 2-3 parts, but in any case, very good! :thumbsup2
Rashev was an archaeologist, so linguistic isn't exactly his forte. Although that doesn't necessarily mean he had no position on it - f.e. he proposed the idea that some of the northern Bulgars had...
No. The currently leading, at least in Bulgaria, theory says the Bulgarians were Iranic, under eventual, later Turkic/Hunnic influence. Maybe.
I don't know what the surprise is either, but he did say "little surprise", so I wouldn't bet on a new faction preview. ;)
Now, I don't really have the time or the nerves to take a really active participation in this enormously messy and potentially explosive topic of discussion, so I'll try to be short (rather unlikely...