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Basileos
12 Jan 2008, 00:02
This is the biography of the Bulgarian Tzars, dear reader. I'm the court writer of the Bulgarian chronic. Our country was depressed by the Byzantine emperor Basileos II who wanted to destroy our tzardom. Then the youngest of the four Komitopulen brothers Samuil enthroned himself. He was cautious and don't wanted conflict with Byzantia. Tzar Samuil decided to conquer the Pechenegs, the former Bulgarian allies who turned their back on us and we declared war on them. The mighty troops our Tzar, who was given his crown by the pope himself after our previous ruler was dethroned in Konstatinople.
Samuil led our army to great victories. We conquered the Dacia and Suceava provinces. Then Samuil decide to conquer Bosnia because Byzantia has a great influence of them. Samuil never expected this war to be so sanguinary like it was. Our Tzar send our troops to Zeta. The siege least very long. The population did not stand the hunger and surrender the castle. Then Basileos II declare war on us capture and the Bulgarian province Macedonia, the home province of our Tzar.
Bosnia became our vassal because of their dread that Samuil will unload his wrath on them. Samuil made a mistake by agreeing royal wedding between his daughter and one of the Holy Roman princes. Then Hungary offered us a gift - the town Banat if we break our trade agreement with the Pechenegs. We accepted the offer. Unfortunately the hungry for blood and spoil Byzantine army attack our castle Karvuna. Our marshals were able to defeat them.
Then came of one the glorious moments in the Bulgarian history. Chasing the byzantine army our troops reached the surrounding area of the Town of Towns - the great Constantinople. The dream of Khan Krum The Terrible and Tzar Simeon The Great was to conquer this mighty citadel. After surprising siege which last even longer than our campaign in Bosnia so far we capture the greatest castle in the world. During the celebration Samuil received really bad news. Our vassal Bosnia claim independence and conquer the Banat province.
In his anger Samuil leading the army himself capture Solun and made his way to Macedonia. He died when he prepared the siege of his old capital Ohrid. He left a great inheritance to his only son the next Tzar Gavril-Radomir.
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Basileos
16 Jan 2008, 20:08
Greetings, dear reader. I'm patriarch Ioann-assen from Bulgaria. I'm the continuer of the anonym Bulgarian chronic.
Our new Tzar Gavril-Radomir started his government of Bulgaria not the way the Bulgarians awaited. He rejected the rightful claim of Konstantinopel by the German Emperor. Then he married the Croatian princess Elena. He earned the respect of the pope because he was the closest ally of the Croatian King. Gavril-Radomir wanted to do what his father Samuil couldn't - to conquer Byzantia and Bosnia and end the Bulgarian problems with this strong states.
He lost the province of Raska to the Bosnians. They proved once again to be hard to deal with. Surprising was the gift from the Bohemian King - the town Yedisan incase Gavril-Radomir started new war with Byzantia. Our ruler accept and attacked the inheritors of the Roman Empire. The mean Pechenegs made use of this and take control to the province Moldavia.
Tzar Gavril-Radomir got inpatient and call Bosnia to a new war. He took Raska back in surprising assault. The Byzantines were still afraid of the mighty Bulgarian troops and didn't attack Bulgaria immediately. This gave Gavril-Radomir to continue his successful campaign in Bosnia. The mighty Bulgarians eliminated Bosnia completely making of the provinces Panonia, Bosnia and Banat bloodbaths.
The Holy Roman Emperor offered Gavril-Radomir the province Austria if the Bulgaria Tzar attacked the Bohemians. Our Tzar was greatful about this offer. After annihilating the Bosnians he attacked the Byzantines.
They were frightened by his army. The Bulgarians left trail of destruction in countless territories - Macedonia, Hellas, Sinope, Anatolia, Nicaea, Antalya, Kilkia, Cappadocia, Rum, Antioch, Cyprus, Crete and even the former Italian state Napoli. Finally the Bulgarian dream of becoming the greatest empire in the Eastern Europe came true.
Meanwhile Tzar Gavril-Radomir made form Kiev and Lithuania his vassals and took tributes from them every year. For breaking his relations with the Holy Roman Emperor the Bulgarian Tzar received the Banat province from the Magyars. The Croatians weren't pleased with this. Therefore they declared war on us. Our Tzar lost Napoli to them.
After destroying one Empire Gavril-Radomir wanted to do the same with the Germans. He took the Moldavia province from them. He received the province of Hungaria from the Hungarian King for starting the war with the German Emperor.
At this time he nominated me for his cleric. Then I continued this book, which was the first one in our history. I became the experience in converting Dacia to the orthodox religion. Before this our mighty Tzar conquered the provinces Kurdistan and Armenia in Armenia. Then he eliminated Georgians completely by capturing their capital Georgia. Alongside his successful assaults in Azov, Lugansk and Kuban he demand Bosnia, Kurdistan and Yedisan to be converted. I the Bulgarian patriarch didn't let my Tzar down.
At the sundown of his great leadership of our Mighty Bulgarian Tzardom he was made the unthinkable - destroyed the Byzantian dreams of having their own state. Our Tzar lost Banat to the Hungarians at the end of his reign. He managed to make payback. He took Transylvania away from them before passing away. He had two sons - Elemag and Efrem.
The younger Efrem become marshal and saved Konstantinopel from Byzantine rebels. Elemag take the crown and become the new Tzar of our Mighty Tzardom. My assistant Despot Omurgag helped me to make map of the great conquests by Tzar Gavril-Radomir the second Tzar for House of the Komitopulen.
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Frujin
16 Jan 2008, 20:55
Not that I mind, but if you put few new lines here and there it might become much more readable. Now it's like a wall of text.