Ottoman forces had captured the commercial center…

1396 CE to 1539 CE

Ottoman forces had captured the commercial center of Sofia in 1385.

Serbia, at this time the strongest Christian power in the Balkans, is decisively defeated by the Ottomans at the Battle of Kosovo Polje in 1389, leaving Bulgaria divided and exposed.

Within ten years, the last independent Bulgarian outpost is captured.

Bulgarian resistance continues until 1453, when the capture of Constantinople gives the Ottomans a base from which to crush local uprisings.

In consolidating its Balkan territories, the new Ottoman political order eliminates the entire Bulgarian state apparatus.

The Ottomans also crushed the nobility as a landholding class and potential center of resistance.

The new rulers reorganize the Bulgarian church, which has existed as a separate patriarchate since 1235, making it a diocese under complete control of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate at Constantinople.

The sultan, in turn, totally controls the patriarchate.

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Sofia > Sofija > Serdica Grad Sofiya Bulgaria View →

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Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines) View → Bulgarians (South Slavs) View → Serbs (South Slavs) View → Bulgaria, Theme of View → Christians, Eastern Orthodox View → Bulgarian Empire (Second), or Empire of Vlachs and Bulgars View → Serbia, Kingdom of View → Serbian Empire View → Ottoman Empire View → Serbia, Moravian View → Bulgaria, Ottoman View → Ottoman Empire View → Turkish people View → Ottoman Empire View →

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Byzantine-Ottoman wars View → Bulgarian–Ottoman wars View → Kosovo, Battle of View → Constantinople, Fall of View →

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Conflict View → Government View → Custom and Law View →

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