Simeon I the Great ( 893 to 927), during the First Bulgarian Empire. Simeon's successful campaigns
against the Byzantines, Magyars and Serbs led Bulgaria to its greatest territorial
expansion ever, making it the
most powerful state in contemporary Eastern
Europe. His reign was also a period of unmatched cultural prosperity
and enlightenment later deemed the Golden Age of Bulgarian
culture.
During
Simeon's rule, Bulgaria spread over a territory between the Aegean, the Adriatic and
the Black Sea, and the new Bulgarian capital Preslav was
said to rival Constantinople. The newly independent Bulgarian Orthodox Church became the first new patriarchate besides
the Pentarchy,
and Bulgarian Glagolitic translations of Christian texts
spread all over the Slavic world
of the time. Halfway through his
reign, Simeon assumed the title of Emperor (Tsar), having prior to that been styled Prince.
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