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 JOSE AGOSTINHO DE MACEDO - LoveToKnow Article on JOSE AGOSTINHO DE MACEDO
A period of decadence followed the extinction of the Asen dynasty in 1257; the Bulgarian power was overthrown by the Servians at Velbuzhd (1330), and Macedonia was included in the realm of the great Servian tsar Dushan (1331-1355) who fixed his capital at Uskub.
After his defeat by the emperor Basil II.
He was defeated and captured by the Bulgarians in 1230 and the remnant of his possessions, to which his son John succeeded, was absorbed in the empire of Nicaea in 1234.
www.1911encyclopedia.com /M/MA/MACEDO_JOSE_AGOSTINHO_DE.htm

  
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Ivan Assen II was not eager to fight, but the Despot of Epirus, the Byzantine noble Todor Comnenus, embarked on a campaign against Bulgaria, hoping to restore the once glorious empire.
To Ivan Assen II, punishing the perjurer was a matter not only of personal revenge but of averting the invader-posed threat to his people.
The son in law of Ivan Asen, he was defeated by Constantine Tih.
debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg /~nikola1/AssenII.htm

  
 The idea about the fortified walls on the reverse of the coins, which concerns us, must be taken from the Byzantine coins with
Kovachevich appeared, the most common opinion was that the oldest Bulgarian coins are from the period of king Ivan Asen I, so all coins with monogram 36 and all with two images of king’s face are from him, and those with one face and the same monogram are from king Ivan Asen II.
From all the Bulgarian kings, who had minted coins, only the names of Mikhail II Asen, Mikhail Shishman and Mikhail, the son of Ivan Alexander, who has ruled with his father and who is imaged on his coins, begin with the letter M so this means that one of those three has minted this coins.
The known coins from Mikhail II Asen are only silver with Latin legend and their workmanship and type are very different from those with image of tow-headed eagle, so he couldn’t mint them.
www.wildwinds.com /moushmov/bulgarian.htm

  
 Holidays in Bulgaria-the broadest range of quality holidays
King Ivan Asen II (1218- 1241), the son of Peter was one of the greatest kings of Bulgaria.
After his death (1257) the boyar Konstantin This was crowned and changed his name to Konstantin Asen and married to Ivan Asen's wife Irina.
Asen was been better leader than his older brother.
www.holidaysinbulgaria.net /history_bg.htm

  
 Ivan
Ivan is traditionally been one of the most popular names in Russia, and it has been relatively common in the United States, as well.
Ivan is the Russian (and Croatian, and Ukrainian) form of John.
Ivan did drop dramatically (yet briefly) after the Russian Revolution, yet it recovered quickly.
www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/i/ivan.html

  
 World InfoZone - Bulgaria Information - Page 2
The Bulgarian State was restored in 1185 by Ivan Asen and, later, under the rule of Ivan Asen II (1218-1241) the Bulgarian Empire consolidated its power.
Ivan Vazov (1850-1921) is perhaps Bulgaria's most famous writer.
However between the early eleventh century and the end of the twelfth century Bulgaria came under Byzantine rule (the Byzantine Empire was founded when the capital of the Roman Empire was transferred to Constantinople in 324).
www.worldinfozone.com /country.php?country=Bulgaria&page=2

  
 RULERS OF BULGARIA (BĂLGARIJA)
    Under Kalojan and Ivan Asen II the restored Bulgarian state expanded, defeating all Balkan rivals and, under the latter, the Bulgarian patriarchate was restored at Tărnovo.
  In 1018—1019 the Byzantine Emperor Basileios II completed the subjugation of Bulgaria, which remained under Byzantine domination until the rebellion of Petăr IV and Ivan Asen I in 1185.
Husband of Eirēnē daughter of Theodōros II by Elena daughter of Ivan Asen II; killed against Ivajlo
www-personal.umich.edu /~imladjov/BulgarianRulers.htm

  
 Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ivan Asen II ( Ioan Asen II) ( 1218 &;
Under Ioan Asen's rule, the empire would become the dominant force in the Balkans.
1241), tsar of Bulgaria, was the son of Asen, founder of the
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 Tourist Information Centre about Sound and Light Show in Veliko Turnovo
The best place to watch it is the ”Tsar Ivan-Asen II” square in front of the Tsarevets Fortress.
The first ever release of the programme was in 1985, to commemorate 800 years since the rebellion of the brothers Asen and Peter.
Heroism and determination stream from the melody of King Shishman's song which was composed spontaneously.
www.velikoturnovo.info /id-22/setLanguage-1/sound_and_light_show.html

  
 Ivan Christov's Links
After a brief dark period during the rule of the successor of Kaloyan, the Second Bulgarian Kingdom enter red its second "Golden Ages" under the rule of Ivan Asen II.
Ivan Alexander took the ill-advised decision to divide the kingdom between the legitimate hair Ivan Sratsimir and the son from the second marriage Ivan Shisman.
His most infamous defeat was when the Byzantine Emperor Basil II destroyed his army capturing scores of prisoners and blinded 14,000 of them.
www.mit.edu /~christov/bulgaria.html

  
 History of Bulgaria
King Ivan Asen II (1218-41) formed an alliance with Emperor Vatatzes against the Latin Empire (1234), and again joined the Greek Church, which thereupon solemnly recognized the autonomy of the Church of Tirnovo (1235).
On their death (1197) their youngest brother Kaloyan, or Ivanitza, ruled alone until 1207; he entered into negotiations with the Holy See, promised to recognize the spiritual supremacy of the pope, and in November, 1204, was crowned with the royal diadem by Cardinal Leo, legate of Pope Innocent III.
With the help of the international community, former Prime Minister Ivan Kostov initiated a series of reforms in 1997 that helped stabilize the country’s economy and put Bulgaria on the Euro-Atlantic path.
www.historyofnations.net /europe/bulgaria.html

  
 ECC 2004 - Sofia, Bulgaria
The height of Bulgar power was reached under Ivan II (Ivan Asen), whose rule (1218–1241) extended over nearly the whole Balkan Peninsula except Greece.
The second Bulgarian empire (1186–1396) rose in 1186 when Ivan Asen (Ivan I) was crowned czar at Veliko Turnovo.
Bulgaria crumbled under the attacks of a reinvigorated Byzantium in the 10th cent., and in 1018 it was annexed by Emperor Basil II.
www.curling.bg /ecc2004/about_bulgaria_history.html

  
 MSN Encarta - Bulgaria
In Communist Bulgaria following World War II, all industrial enterprises were nationalized and operated under a series of five-year economic plans, modelled after the Soviet system, with financial aid from the USSR.
The Ivan Vazov National Library is located in Plovdiv.
Outstanding Bulgarian artists include the etcher Peter Morozov, the painter Vladimir Dimitrov, and the sculptors Ivan Lazarov and Christo.
uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761556147_4/Bulgaria.html

  
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Chosen by all Boyars to be the Tsar of the Bulgarians after the escape of Ivan Asen III.
The grandson of Ivan Asen II, he was given the title by the Byzantine emperor Michail VIII Paleolog, married his daughter Irina.
His underage sons Koloman and Mihail II Assen, from his first and second marriage respectively, ascended the throne one after the other, and failed to stop the Mongolian onslaught from the north.
debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg /~nikola1/ivailo.htm

  
 Ivan II
Ivan Asen - Ivan Asen: see Ivan II, czar of Bulgaria.
Ivan II was succeeded by his sons Kaliman I, who reigned 1241–46, and Michael, who reigned 1246–57.
Under Ivan II the Bulgarian empire reached its zenith, becoming the strongest power in the Balkans; he added Macedonia, Epirus, and much of Albania and Serbia to his lands.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0825701.html

  
 Plovdiv Guide and Plovdiv - the Tourism, Tradition and Culture Center of Bulgaria
It was under the reign of the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II (1218-1241, son of Tsar Assen I and a nephew to Tsar Kaloyan), that the Second Bulgarian Kingdom reached its peak.
The fortress as well as the neighbouring town itself (Assenovgrad - meaning Assen`s Town) are both bearing te name of one of the greatest rulers Bulgaria ever had - Tsar Ivan Asen II.
Tsar Ivan Assen II ruled with a significant statesmanship and diplomacy, successfully marrying all of his sisters, daughters and female cousins to the strong rulers of all the neighbouring lands, thus guaranteeing peace to his country.
www.plovdivcityguide.com /placestosee/gallery.php?gal_id=8α=&page=1&hpage=1〈_id=2

  
 STUDENT HOLIDAYS - VELIKO TURNOVO, BULGARIA
On one of the columns there is a dug-in inscription on the construction history of the church, known as the Turnovo Inscription of Tsar Ivan Asen II.
In the 13th C. it is renewed by Tsar Ivan Asen II to commemorate his victory over the Epir despot Kir Theodoros Comnenos at Klokotnitsa.
Founded under Tsar Ivan Aleksandur in the 14th C. Demolished after the capture of Turnovo by the Turks (1393), the monastery is reconstructed in the 30-ies of the 20th C. St. Andrey Purvozvani Chapel and the monastery the Transfiguration of Our Lord Monastery are built in 1834.
www.studentholidays.com /bg/bg19.htm

  
 Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ivan Asen II (also archaic Ioan Asen II or English John Asen II) (1218–1241), emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria, was the son of Ivan Asen I, one of the founders of the Second Bulgarian Empire.
The new pro-Nicaean allignment of Bulgaria culminated with the marriage between Ivan Asen II's daughter Elena and the future Theodore II Doukas Laskaris, the son of Emperor John III of Nicaea.
The alliance was cemented with the marriage of Ivan Asen II's daughter to Theodore's brother Manuel.
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 Our Family Tree - aqwn33 - Generated by Ancestry Family Tree
Crowned in 1231, John helped fend off attacks by the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II and the Nicaean emperor John III Vatatzes, but shortly before his death he was forced to appeal to the West for help.
A penniless younger son of the French count Erard II of Brienne and Agnes of Montbliard, John passed most of his life as a minor noble until befriended by King Philip II Augustus of France, who arranged for him to marry Mary (Marie) of Montferrat, queen of the crusader state of Jerusalem, in 1210.
In 1228 John was invited to Constantinople to be regent and co-emperor with the young Baldwin II and arranged a match between Baldwin and his four-year-old daughter by Berengaria.
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 The Rulers of Bulgaria
Chosen by all Bolyars to be the Czar of the Bulgarians after the escape of Ivan Asen III.
After one year he gives him the throne, as the young Ivan Asen is so ambitious.
Son - in - law of Ivan Asen.
bulgaria.filibe.net /english.html   (1748 words)

  
 Ivan Asen II --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Online Article
Although he was a brilliant physiologist and a skillful surgeon, Ivan Pavlov is remembered primarily for his development of the concept of conditioned reflex.
It was through Ivan Turgenev that the Western nations first became acquainted with Russian literature.
Born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), Ivan Lendl moved to the United States in 1986.
concise.britannica.com /ebc/article?tocId=9368323   (1748 words)

  
 Terra Incognita - Bulgaria
It is known that after tsar Ivan-Asen II's victory, Turnovgrad was a center of different cultures, and every single ethnical group had its own district - jewish, Armenian and the famous district of the just conquered Franks.
Nevertheless some authors publicate some works that mention hypothesis that Arbanasi existed even earlier, back to the time of tsar Ivan-Asen II, right after his glorious victory at Klokotnitsa on 9 May 1230.
And really while some archeologists were having a look over the city, some fragments of everyday-life pottery dating back from the XIV century.
www.bourgas.org /terraincognita/pl-arbanasi.html   (1748 words)

  
 Monastero di Rila - Wikipedia
Tutti i re bulgari, a partire da Ivan Asen II (
Ivan Shishman ( 1378), fecero spesso grandi doni.
San Ivan Rilski, le cui reliquie sono esposte nella chiesa del santuario, in verità dimorava in una grotta poco distante.
it.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monastero_di_Rila   (1748 words)

  
 Old Serbia-Southern Serbian Land-FYROM
2)Arround 1229/1230 Bulgarian Emperor John Asen II wrote an inscription in Trnovo:"I have took the land from Adrianopolis to Drach,Greek,Albanian and also Serbian".
1)In the year 680 in Bythinia, city of Gordoservon is mentioned whose name is derived from the Serbs resettled in Asia Minor by Byzantine Emperor Constance II from the areas around river Vardar.
"Chtenija v imperatorskom' obshtesvja istorii i drevnosti Rossiiskih pri Moskovskom univerziteta" Moskva 1896 II 5th part pp.4a
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 Stefan Vladislav I
Stefan Vladislav I (Стефан Владислав I) (died after 1264) was Serb king ( 1233 - 1242), son of Stefan Prvovenčani[?] and son-in-law of Bulgarian tzar Ivan Asen II[?].
He overthrow his older brother, king Radoslav, and was on the throne by help of his father-in-law.
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 Gallery Travel - Glogen Monastery
(1230-1250) during the Second Bulgarian Kingdom when Ivan Asen II takes the rule of the country.
Its foundation is connected with the name of Prince of Kiev George Gloge, who getting the permission from the Bulgarian King set us down with his retinue at this place.
Money payable for this print will be donated to the Monastery.
www.chaldakov.com /gallery_travel_sgm_history.htm   (1748 words)

  
 The Archbishopric of Ohrid and The Macedonian Orthodox Church
It was legally strengthened by the Byzantine Emperor Basil II as an ecumenical Christian institution immediately after his defeat of Samuil's state in 1018.In the 13th century at the time of the Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Asen II, in addition to the church at Trnovo, the older Ohrid Church was also an object of respect.
When Ivan Vladislav took the throne, Philip was dismissed from his post.
This was also the case under the rule of the Serbian sovereign, Stefan Dushan: in addition to his church at Pec, he treated the Archbishopric of Ohrid with equal respect.
www.mymacedonia.net /religion/archbishopric.htm   (1748 words)

  
 Chapter 30-31 Notes
c) While Ivailo is busy with the Tatars, Czar Ivan Asen III (1279-1280), the grandson of Ivan Asen II, is given the power by Byzantine emperor Mikhail VIII Paleolog.
d) The reign of the under aged sons of Ivan II Asen were marked by the loss of lands in Thrace, Macedonia and Walachia.
d) Only Bulgaria under Ivan II Asen was strong enough to challenge this claim.
www.doser.org /school/his9/his9_ch30-31notes.htm   (1748 words)

  
 Stefan Vladislav I Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com
Stefan Vladislav I (Стефан Владислав I) (died after 1264) was Serb king from 1233 up to 1242, son of Stefan Prvovenčani and son-in-law of Bulgarian tzar Ivan Asen II.
His marriage with Beloslava, daughter of Ivan Asen II issued two children:
After death of his father-in-law, during Tatar invasion in Middle Europe he was overthrown by his younger brother Uroš, who gave him to rule Zeta.
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