Episode 289 - Kaloyan, Tsar of Bulgaria
The History of Byzantium
Robin Pierson
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🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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With Baldwin and Boniface dead the Bulgarians run riot across Thrace. Their Tsar Kaloyan attempts to capture Thessalonica and ponders whether he could become the new Roman Emperor.
Period: 1204-07
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| 0:26.0 | Search Zero with an ex, because healthy business is beautiful business. Hello everyone and welcome to the history of Byzantine |
| 0:44.0 | episode 289 |
| 0:46.4 | Kaloyan, |
| 0:48.4 | Zar of Bulgaria. |
| 0:52.4 | Across the last few episodes we've seen several men fail to fill the role of Emperor of |
| 0:57.6 | Constantinople. The two Byzantine still carrying that title couldn't find a way to counter the Latins, while the two leading |
| 1:05.3 | crusaders were both lost in battle against Bulgarian forces who knew the land much better |
| 1:10.9 | than they did. Before its sack, Constantinople had been like the sun. |
| 1:16.8 | Everyone in the Balkans, Western Anatolia, and the Aegean were in its orbit. The Fourth Crusade had blotted it out, destabilizing the gravitational |
| 1:27.8 | pull which the city had exerted over the region. Now there was a vacuum. Either someone could fill that space and |
| 1:36.8 | restart the dead star or the lands of the empire would fragment and different power centers would begin seizing control for themselves. |
| 1:48.9 | This sounded like good news to the Bulgarians. |
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