List of Bulgarian monarchs
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Early Bulgar leaders bore the title of baltavar (balt-avar), which literally means "ruler of Avars". Later they acquired the title Khan and Khagan, still later the title tsar.
The title tsar was first adopted and used in Bulgaria by Simeon I following a decisive victory over the Byzantine Empire in 913. It was also used by all of Simeon I's successors until the fall of Bulgaria under Ottoman rule in 1396. After Bulgaria's liberation from the Ottomans in 1878, its new monarchs adopted the title tsar again and used it between 1908 and 1946.
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List of Bulgarian rulers
Legendary rulers
- Avitokhol (Attila) (153–453) (according to history, (445–453)
- Ernakh (453–603) (according to history, (453–503) over Utiguri
Historical persons
the Dulo clan
(?–740, 803–997)At times, the reign in the Bulgar lands was split.
- Kubrat (605–665) over Onogunduri
- Batbayan (665–668) over Onogunduri
- Asparukh (668–701) over Utiguri
- Tervel (701–721)
- Kormesiy (721–738)
- Sevar (738–753)
the Ukil clan
(753–766)the Ugain clan
(766–803)the Dulo clan
- Krum (803–814) of kutriguri
- joint rule of Omurtag (815–831), Dukum (814–815) and Dizewg (815)
- joint rule of Malamir (831–852), Presian (836–852)
- Boris I Michael (852–889)
- Vladimir of Bulgaria (889–893)
- Simeon I of Bulgaria (Simeon the Great) (893–May 27 927)
- Peter I of Bulgaria (927–969)
- Boris II of Bulgaria (969–972)
- Roman I of Bulgaria (972–997) (joint rule with Samuil 976–997)
House of Comitopuli
(976–1018)- Samuil (997–1014) (joint rule with Roman 976–997)
- Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria (October 1014 – August 1015)
- Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria (1015–1018)
- Peter (II) Delyan of Bulgaria (1040–1041)
- Constantin Bodin (Peter (III)) (1072)
Byzantine rule
(1018 – 1185)
House of Asen (the Asenites)
(1186–1277, 1279–1280)- joint reign of Teodor (I) Peter (IV) (1186–1197) and Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria (1186–1196)
- Kaloyan (1197–1207)
- Boril of Bulgaria (1207–1218)
- Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria (1218–1241)
- Kaliman I of Bulgaria (1241–1246)
- Michael II Asen of Bulgaria (1246–1256/1257)
- Kaliman II of Bulgaria (1256/1257)
- Mico Asen (1256/1257)
- Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria (1257–1277)
- Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria (1279–1280)
- Ivailo the Swineherd (1277–1279)
House of Terter
(1280–1292, 1300–1323)House of Smilets
(1292–1298)Mongolian monarch in Bulgaria
1298–1300House of Terter
(1280–1292, 1300–1323)House of Shishman
(1323–1396)- Michael III Shishman (1323–1330)
- Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria(1330–1331)
- Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria (1331–1371)
- Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria (1371–1393)
- Ivan Stratsimir of Bulgaria (1371–1396)
Ottoman rule
(1396 – 1878)
House of Battenberg
(1879–1886)- Alexander I Joseph (April 4 1879 – September 7 1886)
House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
(1887–1946)
Monarchy abolished in 1946
