681 Event

First Bulgarian Empire

Name: First Bulgarian Empire
Start: 0681

Byzantium recognises a Bulgarian state south of the Danube: Europe’s oldest still-named Slavic state.

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Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Early Middle Ages 476 – 1000 Post-Roman kingdoms, Christianisation, invasions.

What was written of it

We civilisations now know that we are mortal.

Paul Valéry 1919

The Crisis of the Mind

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