Medieval Kingdoms Total War: Second Bulgarian Tsardom (Complete)

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You can add late era hajduks handgunners.
Without any armor only caps and clothes

[Wallachian]

The hajduks appeared in the mid to late XVIth century. Way past this mod's time frame.

[GeneralL]

Great Roster, Beautiful Units, Beautiful Work, good job !

[Cometopuli]

I think you should bring back the pronoia cavalry

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https://sofiaglobe.com/2018/08/22/ar...akra-fortress/ some new intresting finds

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https://www.academia.edu/16720378/A_...IEVAL_BULGARIA

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Fiscal terms of this period relating to taxes and dues are often derived from Byzantine originals, as evinced by such Bulgarian words as komod, mitat and ariko. (Mitaton in Greek means a tax or tax office, aerikon is the poll-tax.)

(Plate 55)
Tsar Ivan Assen II reorganized the financial system of Bulgaria, being the first ruler to strike coinage in large quantities, mostly silver pieces (aspers). The coinage was partly modelled on that of Venice, with

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which power the Tărnovo court did a great amount of business. Affinn ties also exist between the Bulgarian silver coinage and that of the Greek empire of Trebizond, the Trebizond asper or ‘white piece’, also the silver coinage of Cilician Armenia. Beautiful gold pieces were struck, resembling the Byzantine scyphate or concave nomisma.

A network of roads - though most of them were little better than tracks - linked Tărnovo with Durazzo and Ragusa (Dubrovnik) on the Adriatic, and Varna, Nessebăr and Burgas on the Black Sea. Another highway led over the modern Shipka Pass towards Adrianople and Constantinople. The journey from Tărnovo to Durazzo via Lovech, Sofia and Kyustendil commonly took as long as thirty days.

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A substantial merchant quarter existed at the foot of the Tărnovo acropolis of Tsarevets, largely inhabited by foreign business men and their families and staff- rather like the Moscow foreigners’ sloboda of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Now a suburb of modern Tărnovo, the site of this medieval merchant quarter was pointed out to me when I visited the city in 1967 and 1971. According to documents published by F. Miklosich and others, Ivan Assen II showed special favour to the Ragusans, merchants from Dubrovnik, since these were largely Slav by blood. He granted them numerous privileges and styled them his ‘well- beloved and most faithful guests’.Fiscal terms of this period relating to taxes and dues are often derived from Byzantine originals, as evinced by such Bulgarian words as komod, mitat and ariko. (Mitaton in Greek means a tax or tax office, aerikon is the poll-tax.)

(Plate 55)
Tsar Ivan Assen II reorganized the financial system of Bulgaria, being the first ruler to strike coinage in large quantities, mostly silver pieces (aspers). The coinage was partly modelled on that of Venice, with

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which power the Tărnovo court did a great amount of business. Affinn ties also exist between the Bulgarian silver coinage and that of the Greek empire of Trebizond, the Trebizond asper or ‘white piece’, also the silver coinage of Cilician Armenia. Beautiful gold pieces were struck, resembling the Byzantine scyphate or concave nomisma.

A network of roads - though most of them were little better than tracks - linked Tărnovo with Durazzo and Ragusa (Dubrovnik) on the Adriatic, and Varna, Nessebăr and Burgas on the Black Sea. Another highway led over the modern Shipka Pass towards Adrianople and Constantinople. The journey from Tărnovo to Durazzo via Lovech, Sofia and Kyustendil commonly took as long as thirty days.

(Fig. 16)
A substantial merchant quarter existed at the foot of the Tărnovo acropolis of Tsarevets, largely inhabited by foreign business men and their families and staff- rather like the Moscow foreigners’ sloboda of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Now a suburb of modern Tărnovo, the site of this medieval merchant quarter was pointed out to me when I visited the city in 1967 and 1971. According to documents published by F. Miklosich and others, Ivan Assen II showed special favour to the Ragusans, merchants from Dubrovnik, since these were largely Slav by blood. He granted them numerous privileges and styled them his ‘well- beloved and most faithful guests’. http://macedonia.kroraina.com/en/dlb/dlb_b.htm#p4

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Heres my last idea.Name the despot units despots retinue spearmen etc you can also use the bulgarian word for retinue which is Svita. Or better remove the despot from their names and just make the Retinue spearmen etc or use the bulgarian word Svita Spearmen etc

[You_Guess_Who]

Well written suggestions, but I don't feel well editing things while Hessam is away.

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The majesty himself and the evangelist you can see a spear with a shield on left of the tsar and a sword in the center

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Jesus walking on water and the feeding of the five thousend.The reason i post these here is because the painter probably painted them in the way bulgarians would probably dress as

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Herod takes advice and calls the three magi to him

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A painting from the Tetravangelia of Tsar Alexander.Here you can see what i belive are nobles.I think this hasnt been posted here

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Notice the three turban like hats that the guys from the first and last picture wear

[Wallachian]

Well they are wearing turbans because they are the three magi. I'm sure bulgarian nobles didnt wear turbans.

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Yes i guess you are kinda right but consider that this was made by a guy who spend his whole life in one place. Also here is an interesting quote that i foundDunno if he was just loved by the nation or he wanted to flex.Nobody of our first tsars seems to us like this great tsar Ivan Alexander, in his military power he looks to us like a second ancient Alexander the Great, in faith and piety he is a second Saint Constantine; he captured thus all his enemies, put them under his knees and established firm peace in the Universe.Praise to Ivan Alexander^[12] by an anonymous contemporary of the tsar

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https://www.pinterest.com/pin/820147782117633651/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/820147782117633623/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/820147782117633654/ some strange heraldies atributed to the bulgarian tsardom.I myself had never seen them before https://www.pinterest.com/pin/682928730967805992/ this one also

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https://www.pinterest.com/pin/522558363000879002/

Arms of the Duke of Philipopolis (?),

(herzog von phinnional)

Miltenberger Wappenbuch, # 296

c. 1486-1500

[Jean-Claude Loutsch via Ivan Papouktchiev]