Ivan Asen I, also known as Asen I or John Asen I (Bulgarian: Иван Асен I; died in 1196), was emperor or tsar of Bulgaria from 1187/1188 to 1196 as co-ruler with his elder brother, Peter II. Hailing from the Byzantine theme of Paristrion, his exact place and date of birth are unknown. Most contemporaneous chronicles describe Asen and his brothers, Theodor (Peter) and Kaloyan, as Vlachs but they were probably of mixed Bulgarian, Cuman and Vlach ancestry.
In 1185, Asen and Theodor went to see the Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelos in Thrace to demand an estate in the Balkan Mountains. After the Emperor refused and humiliated them, the brothers persuaded their Bulgarian and Vlach compatriots to rise up against the Byzantine Empire. Before the end of the year, Theodor was crowned Emperor of Bulgaria, taking the name Peter. After Isaac II defeated them in early 1186, Asen and Peter fled north over the Danube but returned in the autumn, accompanied by Cuman reinforcements. They captured Paristrion and began pillaging the nearby Byzantine territories.
Asen became his brother's co-ruler in 1187 or 1188. They divided their realm around 1192, with Asen receiving Tarnovo and its region. Asen made a series of raids against Byzantine territories and expanded his rule over the lands along the Struma River in the early 1190s. A boyar, Ivanko, stabbed him to death in 1196.
IvanAsenI, also known as AsenI or John AsenI (Bulgarian: Иван Асен I; died in 1196), was emperor or tsar of Bulgaria from 1187/1188 to 1196 as co-ruler...
IvanAsen II, also known as John Asen II (Bulgarian: Иван Асен II, [iˈvanɐˈsɛn ˈftɔri]; 1190s – May/June 1241), was Emperor (Tsar) of Bulgaria from 1218...
ethnic background of the three Asen brothers (Teodor I Peter IV (Romanian: Teodor I Petru IV), IvanAsenI (Romanian: Ioan Asan I) and Kaloyan (Romanian: Caloian))...
IvanAsen III (Bulgarian: Иван Асен III, also Йоан Асен III, Ioan Asen III, and in English John Asen III), ruled as tsar of Bulgaria 1279–1280. Ivan Asen...
and Greeks" (Bulgarian: tsr’ i samodrzac Bl’garom i Gr’kom, Latin: imperator et moderator Bulgarorum et Grecorum). IvanAsen II's successors kept "autocrat"...
Kaliman AsenI, also known as Coloman AsenI or Koloman (Bulgarian: Калиман Асен I; 1234-August/September 1246) was Emperor (Tsar) of Bulgaria from 1241...
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was baptised Ivan (or John), but he was called Johannitsa ("Little Ivan") because Ivan was also the baptismal name of his elder brother Asen. Kaloyan derived...
IvanAsen (Bulgarian: Иван Асен), also known as IvanAsen IV was a Bulgarian Prince, third son of Emperor Ivan Alexander from his first wife Theodora of...
sister of his predecessor, Kaloyan and Kaloyan's brothers, Peter II and IvanAsenI, who had restored the independent Bulgarian state. After Kaloyan died...
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of Serres: Bulgarian forces under Tsar IvanAsenI defeat the Byzantine army near Serres. During the winter Ivan continues his campaign in Central Macedonia...
IvanAsen Cove (Bulgarian: залив Иван Асен, ‘Zaliv IvanAsen’ \'za-liv i-'van a-'sen\) is the 1.16 km wide cove on Osmar Strait indenting for 800 m the...
Alexander was a nephew of Michael Asen III. Paternally, Ivan Alexander descended from the Asen dynasty. By 1330 Ivan Alexander was himself a despot and...
daughter of the sebastokrator Peter and Anna (Theodora), herself daughter of IvanAsen II (r. 1218-1241) and Irene Komnene of Epirus. He was also a distant cousin...
The Uprising of Asen and Peter (Bulgarian: Въстание на Асен и Петър) was a revolt of Bulgarians and Vlachs living in Moesia and the Balkan Mountains, then...
Bulgaria from 1256 until 1257. Mitso Asen ascended the throne by virtue of his marriage to a daughter of IvanAsen II of Bulgaria by Irene Komnene of Epirus...
1256 or 1257. He was the son of IvanAsen II and Irene Komnene Doukaina. He succeeded his half-brother, Kaliman IAsen. His mother or other relative must...
establishment of the Second Bulgarian Empire in the aftermath of the Uprising of IvanAsenI of Bulgaria and his brother Theodor (Peter) against the Byzantine Empire...
most powerful state in South-Eastern Europe. Around 1221–1222 Emperor IvanAsen II of Bulgaria made an alliance with Theodore Komnenos Doukas, the ruler...
Bulgarian Empire, it reached the peak of its power under Tsars Kaloyan and IvanAsen II before gradually being conquered by the Ottomans in the early 15th...
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