the height of the First Bulgarian Empire (632/680-1018 AD) – and the icon itself has been restored for the first time since its discovery in the early 20th century. The restored icon of St. Theodore ...

Archaeologists have made a sensational finding on Saturday, dated back to the first Bulgarian Empire (years 681-1018) in the ancient Bulgarian capital of Pliska. The team of archaeologists found ...

Samuil fought a heavy battle to ward off an incipient Byzantine appetite to run over the First Bulgarian Empire (681 AD-1018 AD). Bulgaria fell under Byzantine rule soon after, and Basil II gained ...

Their empire ruled territories from the Carpathian Mountains in the north to the Aegean and the Adriatic in the south (see the map below) restoring most, if not all, of the territorial, military and ...

Madara was the principal sacred place of the First Bulgarian Empire before Bulgaria’s conversion to Christianity in the 9th century. The inscriptions beside the sculpture tell of events that occurred ...

Archaeologists think the coin dates to the first years of the region's rule ... show it was an important town during the Second Bulgarian Empire, which ruled from 1185 until the empire was ...

The journey to freedom began centuries ago with the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire in 681 AD. However, the empire's fall in 1396 led to Ottoman rule for nearly five centuries.