Bulgaria (Byzantine theme)
The Byzantine theme of Bulgaria was a military-administrative district that was formed around 1018 in the center of the Balkan Peninsula . The main town was Skopje (now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia ). The name of the military-administrative district was derived from the First Bulgarian Empire, which was conquered under the Byzantine Emperor Basil II. Bulgaroktónos (Bulgarian Slayer ) during the rule of the Komitopuli . The Bulgarian soldiers and aristocrats who survived the Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars were resettled to Asia Minor and tasked with conquering Armenia .
Basil II further reorganized the Bulgarian Orthodox Church by converting the Patriarchate of Preslaw or Ohrid into the Archdiocese of Ohrid and nominally subordinating it to the Byzantine emperor. The boundaries of the archbishopric were identical to the boundaries of the themes. Other more important cities in the subject besides Ohrid and Skopje were Serdica , Welbaschd and Bdin . The topic lasted for almost 150 years until it was dissolved by the revolt of the Bulgarian princes Ivan Assen I and Peter IV and the Second Bulgarian Empire came into being.
Individual evidence
- ^ John V. Fine: The Early Medieval Balkans. A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1991, ISBN 0-472-08149-7 , p. 79.
literature
- Warren Treadgold: A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford University Press, Stanford (Calif.) 1997, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2 , pp. 421, 478, and more often.