Were they Emperor Basil II’s greatest enemy? – Battle of Setina, 1017 AD

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   🚩 Emperor Basil defeated the Bulgarians time and again. But they stubbornly kept getting back on their feet, proving that the greatest threat to Constantinople lay in the west. Now, Basil and his army are once more tied down fighting a brutal attritional war in the Balkans.

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2. So Basil II finally grinds down the Bulgarian resistance visa attrition over many years and takes advantage of the eventually lack of effective leadership to persuade Bukgar nobles to submit on good terms, rather than prolonging a fruitless resistance to him and his conquest of their country.

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3. Basil lI made sure that the peasants were not heavily taxed and made the nobles give back land that they had stolen from the peasants. It was simply incredible that he journeyed to Athens after his victory over the Bulgarians. He climbed to the to the top of the acropolis and held a Thanksgiving service in the Parthenon itself. He was not only fighting for the Byzantine Empire but for Western Civilization itself.

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4. Honestly a tv show about the Bulgarian and the Roman empire would be 5x more interesting that even game of thrones

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5. Do the Siege of Jericho

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6. Wow,I wish I could learn the whole history this way.thank you so much for this joy

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7. You got it wrong! Samuel is not from the Krum dynasty. The last 2 representatives from that dynasty were Romanos and Boris the 2nd

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8. Imagine the love Samuil had for his soldiers that had him killed seeing them blended

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