Yes, there are many ancient sites here - both from Ancient Greek and Roman times and even older Thracian pagan ritual grounds. But Bulgaria was officially founded in 681, so I misspoke when I said it's half a century older than Kievska Rus which came 2c. later.
I think Bulgarians lived there long before official foundation of state. People have to had a history of living in some place before official establishing of state or town, with exception of establishing a state in a colonial manner.
Yes, that's a good point. But it's hard to trace back when a tribe or a union of tribes becomes a meaningful entity and 'a people' and that's why we usually refer to an official founding dynasty. It's like tracing back the origins of a language - the more you go back, the less defined and characteristic it becomes.
St. Andrew preached the gospel in the Black Sea region in Thrace around modern day Varna and Sozopol.
We have kind of legend or myth that St. Andrew in his North tour reached Novgorod (Slovensk settlement at the time), but no artifacts or written evidences exists and Orthodox Christianity came back here only centures later.
Arnold Fruchtenbaum uncovered that Emperor Justinian first gave the title "tsar" or "caesar" to outsiders by awarding it to the Bulgarian khans in 705. With the weakening of the Empire, Bulgarian Simeon I in 913 was the first to take the title as hereditary for his dynasty, which was long before Ivan III was the first Russian to call himself tsar in 1472. This is meaningful because both czars and kaisers have represented the continuation of the Roman power in the same name: both America and Russia now declare themselves lords of czars. Thus there has long been an east-west balance of power that inherits the mantle of the Roman empire and which the devil is trying to infiltrate for his globalist empire.
Yes, there are many ancient sites here - both from Ancient Greek and Roman times and even older Thracian pagan ritual grounds. But Bulgaria was officially founded in 681, so I misspoke when I said it's half a century older than Kievska Rus which came 2c. later.
I think Bulgarians lived there long before official foundation of state. People have to had a history of living in some place before official establishing of state or town, with exception of establishing a state in a colonial manner.
Yes, that's a good point. But it's hard to trace back when a tribe or a union of tribes becomes a meaningful entity and 'a people' and that's why we usually refer to an official founding dynasty. It's like tracing back the origins of a language - the more you go back, the less defined and characteristic it becomes.
St. Andrew preached the gospel in the Black Sea region in Thrace around modern day Varna and Sozopol.
We have kind of legend or myth that St. Andrew in his North tour reached Novgorod (Slovensk settlement at the time), but no artifacts or written evidences exists and Orthodox Christianity came back here only centures later.
Arnold Fruchtenbaum uncovered that Emperor Justinian first gave the title "tsar" or "caesar" to outsiders by awarding it to the Bulgarian khans in 705. With the weakening of the Empire, Bulgarian Simeon I in 913 was the first to take the title as hereditary for his dynasty, which was long before Ivan III was the first Russian to call himself tsar in 1472. This is meaningful because both czars and kaisers have represented the continuation of the Roman power in the same name: both America and Russia now declare themselves lords of czars. Thus there has long been an east-west balance of power that inherits the mantle of the Roman empire and which the devil is trying to infiltrate for his globalist empire.
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