Tschaka Nogai

Chaka ( Bulgarian Чака : *, † 1300 in Tarnovo ) or Chaka Nogai was a Mongolian prince and 1299-1300 Tsar of Bulgaria . Tschaka was the son of Kara Nogai Khan , one of the leaders of the Golden Horde .

After the defeat against the legitimate khan of the Golden Horde, Tokta , Chaka fled to Bulgaria with his wife and brother-in-law Todor Swetoslaw in autumn 1299 , where he took the throne of Ivan IV Smilez . But the following year he was overthrown and imprisoned by Todor Svetoslav.

After Todor Swetoslaw was crowned the new tsar of Bulgaria, he had Chaka killed and his head given to Tokta as a gift.

family

Tschaka was married to a daughter of Georgi I Terter . With her he had a son, Kara Kücük.

literature

• Jordan Andreev, Ivan Lazarov, Plamen Pavlov: Koj koj ev srednovekovna Bǎlgarija. (Bulgarian) Sofia 1999, ISBN 954-402-047-0 .
• Jordan Andreev: Bǎlgarija prez vtorata četvǎrt na XIV vek. (Bulgarian) Veliko Tǎrnovo 1993.
• Jordan Andreev: Tsar Smilez In Bǎlgarskite khanove i zare VII-XIV vek. (Bulgarian) “Petar Beron” publishing house, Sofia 1998, ISBN 954-402-034-9 .
• Ivan Božilov: Familijata na Asenevci (1186-1460). (Bulgarian) Sofia 1985.
• John VA Fine, Jr .: The Early Medieval Balkans. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1991, ISBN 978-0-472-08149-3 .
• Constantin Jireček : History of the Bulgarians , Georg Olm Verlag, 1977 (Orig .: F. Tempsky Verlag, Prague, 1876)
• Gerhard Podskalsky : Theological literature of the Middle Ages in Bulgaria and Serbia 815-1459. Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-45024-5 .
• Detailed list of Bulgarian rulers (PDF; 96 kB)

predecessor	Office	successor
Ivan IV Smilez	Tsar of Bulgaria 1299-1300	Todor Svetoslav