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THE LEGEND OF BASIL THE BULGAR-SLAYER
Paul Stephenson, Department of History, University of Wisconsin - Madison, and Dumbarton
http://homepage.mac.com/paulstephenson/research/bulgarslayer.html
“…The study begins with an analysis of Basil's achievement in the Balkans. It re-evaluates Basil's wars, suggests that he was as much peacemaker as warmonger, and that it was never his intention to eliminate the independent
medieval realm of Bulgaria (not Macedonia)…”
Oscar Halecki, History of East Central Europe
PART II - THE MEDIEVAL TRADITION
4 THE HERITAGE OF THE TENTH CENTURY
THE WESTERN SLAVS
http://historicaltextarchive.com/books.php?op=viewbook&bookid=1&cid=4
“…The result was the occupation of Eastern
Bulgaria by the Greeks. A new leader, King Samuel, however, appeared in the western part of the country. He resumed Simeon’s struggle against the empire and opposed it for more than thirty years.
That long
Greek-Bulgarian war is one of the decisive events in the history of the Balkan Peninsula. ... In its first phase it was a defensive war of Byzantium against Samuel’s invasions which reached the Adriatic and the Aegean seas. But
Bulgaria paid a heavy price for these renewed imperial ambitions. Emperor Basil II, called the “killer of the Bulgarians,” in 1014 finally inflicted upon them a crushing defeat, and Samuel himself died when thousands of captives were sent back to him with their eyes gouged. Such cruelty of course exasperated the
Bulgarians, who continued to resist in the Balkan Mountains for four more years. But by 1018 their whole country was conquered and again made a mere province of the Greek Empire… “
Henry Bogdan: From Warsaw To Sofia
Chapter 4 - The Birth of Nation States (10th--13th Centuries)
http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/bogdan/bogdan04.htm
“…
Bulgaria was momentarily weakened, but with Prince Samuel (976-1014), the Bulgars rose again from their political and cultural center at Ochrid.... Byzantine reaction under Emperor Basil II (976-1025), was brutal. After long and hard campaigns, Basil crushed the
Bulgar army in July 1014. Thousands of
Bulgar soldiers were blinded by order of the emperor and sent back to Tsar Samuel. The attempt to create an independent
Bulgar empire in defiance of Byzantium had failed.…”