Person
Ivan Asen I
Younger brother of Theodor-Peter and co-leader of the uprising of 1185, co-ruler of Bulgaria from 1187 or 1188. With his brother he found allies among the Cumans north of the Danube, and in 1190 the Bulgarians routed a Byzantine army in a pass of the Balkan Mountains; in 1196 he was stabbed by the boyar Ivanko.
- Dates
- … – 1196
- Events
- 1 event
- Regions
- Balkans and Anatolia
- In the threads
- Balkans and Anatolia (11th–12th c.)
Events
- Uprising of Asen and Peter: the Second Bulgarian Empire26 October 1185 – between 1187 and 1188 · Balkans and Anatolia