Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars 680–1355

Second Bulgarian Empire ⚔ Byzantine Empire

Key battles

• Battle of Ongal (680)
• Battle of Anchialus (708)
• Battle of Marcellae (756)
• Battle of the Rishki Pass (759)
• Battle of Anchialus (763)
• Battle of Marcellae (792)
• Battle of Pliska (811)
• Battle of Versinikia (813)
• Battle of Boulgarophygon (896)
• Battle of Southern Buh (896)
• Battle of Achelous (917)
• Battle of Pegae (921)
• Battle of the Gates of Trajan (986)
• Battle of Spercheios (997)
• Battle of Skopje (1004)
• Battle of Kleidion (1014)
• Battle of Adrianople (1205)
• Battle of Klokotnitsa (1230)
• Siege of Constantinople (1235)
• Battle of Skafida (1304)
• Battle of Rusokastro (1332)

Who lived through the Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars

Well-known people alive during 680–1355:

• Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) — Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
• Marco Polo (1254–1324) — Venetian explorer and merchant who travelled through Asia (1254–1324)
• Genghis Khan (1162–1227) — founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire (1162–1227)
• Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) — Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)
• Li Bai (701–762) — Classical Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty (701–762)
• Avicenna (980–1037) — Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
• Charlemagne (742–814) — king of Franks, regarded as the first Holy Roman Emperor (747–814) (742-814)
• Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) — 14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
• Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) — Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
• Ibn Battuta (1304–1368) — 14th century Muslim Maghrebi scholar and explorer
• Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (780–850) — 9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
• Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) — Arab historiographer and historian
• Hafez (1325–1389) — Persian poet and mystic (1325–1389)
• Abu Nuwas (756–814) — 8th-century classical Arabic poet
• Petrarch (1304–1374) — Italian scholar and poet (1304-1374)
• Rumi (1207–1273) — Iranian poet
• Timur (1336–1405) — the founder of the Timurid Empire (1370–1405)
• Murasaki Shikibu (970–) — Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)
• Saladin (1138–1193) — Sultan of Egypt and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty (1137–1193)
• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) — Italian author and poet (1313–1375)
• Al-Ghazali (1056–1111) — Persian Sunni Muslim scholar and mystic (c.1058–1111)
• Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) — Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226)
• Du Fu (712–770) — Tang dynasty Chinese poet (712–770)
• Averroes (1126–1198) — Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
• Ferdowsi (940–1020) — Persian poet, author of Shahnameh (940–1020)

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