Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1185 – 1396

Second Bulgarian Empire

A state of 1185 – 1396 — 211 years in Europe. The atlas records 25 things within it — wars and battles 13 · people 12. Its line of rulers holds 15 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
211 years
1185 – 1396
Rulers
15
the Tsar of Bulgaria
Most ground
311,700 km²
in 1236
Within it
25
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: Second Bulgarian Empire in 1236, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Second Bulgarian Empire in 1236, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 311,700 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.
Second Bulgarian Empire in 1188, first mapped

1188 · first mapped · 108,900 km²

Second Bulgarian Empire in 1236, at its largest

1236 · at its largest · 311,700 km²

Second Bulgarian Empire in 1385, last mapped

1385 · last mapped · 41,200 km²

The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Second Bulgarian Empire: 1185 – 1396

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

Peter IV of Bulgaria · 1185 – 1197 · no death date to read the end againstKaliman I of Bulgaria · 1241 – 1246 · no death date to read the end againstMichael II Asen · 1246 – 1256 · no death date to read the end againstMitso Asen of Bulgaria · 1256 – 1257 · no death date to read the end againstConstantine I Tih · 1257 – 1277 · no death date to read the end againstIvaylo of Bulgaria · 1278 – 1279 · no death date to read the end againstIvan Asen III · 1279 – 1280 · no death date to read the end againstIvan II of Bulgaria · 1298 – 1299 · no death date to read the end againstChaka of Bulgaria · 1299 – 1300 · no death date to read the end againstTheodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria · 1300 – 1322 · no death date to read the end againstGeorge II of Bulgaria · 1322 – 1323 · no death date to read the end againstMichael Shishman of Bulgaria · 1323 – 1330 · no death date to read the end againstIvan Stephen of Bulgaria · 1330 – 1331 · no death date to read the end againstIvan Sratsimir of Bulgaria · 1356 – 1396 · no death date to read the end againstConstantine II of Bulgaria · 1397 – 1422 · no death date to read the end against1200125013001350
ending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Peter IV of Bulgaria1185 – 119712 yearsending not on record
Kaliman I of Bulgaria1241 – 12465 yearsending not on record
Michael II Asen1246 – 125610 yearsending not on recordsibling
Mitso Asen of Bulgaria1256 – 12571 yearending not on record
Constantine I Tih1257 – 127720 yearsending not on record
Ivaylo of Bulgaria1278 – 12791 yearending not on record
Ivan Asen III1279 – 12801 yearending not on record
Ivan II of Bulgaria1298 – 12991 yearending not on record
Chaka of Bulgaria1299 – 13001 yearending not on record
Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria1300 – 132222 yearsending not on record
George II of Bulgaria1322 – 13231 yearending not on recordchild
Michael Shishman of Bulgaria1323 – 13307 yearsending not on record
Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria1330 – 13311 yearending not on recordchild
Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria1356 – 139640 yearsending not on record
Constantine II of Bulgaria1397 – 142225 yearsending not on recordchild

15 rulers, 15 with terms dated as terms, covering 1185 – 1422. Median reign 5 years. 1 of 14 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

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138,300 km² in 1195, 41,200 km² in 1385; at its largest 261,500 km² in 1215. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Coat of arms of the Second Bulgarian Empire
    coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of the Second Bulgarian Empire · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Пакко
  • Flag of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1325)
    flag, from 1325Flag of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1325) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Samhanin

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1100 – 1199: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other11001200 – 1299: 8 recorded — 4 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 4 other12001300 – 1399: 16 recorded — 9 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 7 other1300

1100 – 11991 row

1200 – 12998 rows · 4 wars and battles

1300 – 139916 rows · 9 wars and battles

and 8 more in the atlas.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood211 years

    stood longer than 64% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held311,700 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 66% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per century1.9

    had more wars on record per century than 97% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median5 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record15

    has more rulers on record than 88% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 31 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

Byzantine–Bulgarian wars · Linked · 680 – 1355Byzantine–Bulgarian warsKaloyan of Bulgaria · Coincidence · 1168 – 1207Kaloyan of BulgariaSecond Bulgarian Empire · 1185 – 1396Second Bulgarian Empire800100012001400
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Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q420759 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.