Mr. Giant Reacts: How did Bulgaria overtake? Eastern Roman Empire? The Conquest of Simeon the Great 

As a bulgarian I can say the Balkans is crazy place, but people are chill.

Bulgaria is a wonderful and under appreciated country. Beautiful scenery, wonderful food, hard working people but they really know how to party:-). Try a shopska salad, one of the worlds greatest dishes. Thank you Mr Giant for your presentation. A true gentleman with an open mind. A lesson for us all.

in reality Bulgaria,play the same role,for slavic peoples,as Roman empire,to latin speackers-alfabet,literacy,old church languadge,but not many know the truth.Healt and happynes:)

A nation with a beautiful history for sure! Great reaction, brother!

8:03 - The Cyrillic Alphabet.

Hidden clip, I like to see how foreigners react. And the new alphabet that was introduced in Bulgaria is the Cyrillic alphabet, in which three hundred million people write today.

Simeon was fighting succesfully on all borders and there is a medal in russia named after him(he is the first tzar in history,russia adopted the title much later)....this medal is given to people that win in an impossible situation,as simeon did.....many rulers tryed to fight on two fronts and didnt made it ,but simeon was fignting on 3😂 and won 💪🔥⚡⚡

He wanted to teach his son a lesson - if he was defending the old tradition, his punishment should've been according to it as well. That is why he punished him in such manner.

Bravo bravisimo keep up the good work man✌️

When focusing on battles and territory expansions, all these videos miss the most significant facts. During the reign of Simeon, the Great, the Bulgarian church received the rank of Patriarchate. Simeon completed his father's plan. In the 9th and 10th centuries, the new center of Christianity besides Rome and Constantinople arose Preslav. Simeon fought those battles for recognition of the Church and language. He did not just receive the title of Emperor. There were 2 languages used in preaching Latin and Greek throughout Europe. After Simeon, it was Old Bulgarian also known as Church Slavonic and Cyrillic script. Simeon did not want to be dependent on Rome or Constantinople. It spread from Simeons Bulgaria and even reached Russia. Bible was translated into Bulgarian. First Bulgarian books were written. For England and Germany which happened 600 years later, they used Latin. Pope recognized a new language to be used. It is so superficial to view Simeon (and all his dynasty, his father started the cultural revolution) as the only warrior. Boris blinded Rasate-Vladimir by Byzantian tradition (they did with many) .Bolgarian tradition was to kill him. Old Bulgarian become the base of the creation of the Russian language. They hate to recognize, that their language comes from Bulgaria. It is like Jamaikian to pretend English was created in the Caribbean. It was used in the Church and administration of many principalities. It is called the Golden age not because of the territory but because of book writing and translation. Golden because creation of culture.

Crossroad of civilizations!

3:50 Be careful what you wish for! We do be saying that a lot, but no one listens. lol

This was an interesting video to watch, To answer your question at 12:55 - yes, most Balkan counties still hold grudges and prejudices against each other. Especially against Turkiye, as they are what remained of the Ottoman Turkic Empire, that conquered and subjugated much of the region for centuries. The Balkans are called the powder keg of Europe for a reason, and there are many reasons we remain segregated nationally to this day.

We was Cristian population long time before boris and this is why the idea was so acceptable for the people but some of the people was scared of the Bizantyne influence at the time.

Precisely. Religion at that time was also a political play. Especially since there were bigger powers then Bulgaria and religion was both something to be used as making allies, make peace treaties, or see common enemies. Of course, religion has it own side, but it was 100% used for political means and also forging or breaking alliances, among other uses that are beyond the religion itself.

You want to bring back the old religion,Then I will judge you according to the old Bulgarian laws. A son raised his hand against his father's will , It goes blind (Google translate)

4:06 Yes, it sounds strange, but this is Boris's plan to unite the Slavs and Bulgars into one nation, Bulgarians. Both peoples were pagans, but with different gods, the Slavs with the supreme god Svarog, and the Bulgars with the god Tengri whom they called Tangra. The two different religions, as well as the different way of life, did not allow the two different groups of people to become one nation. The Slavs were the majority of the population and the Bulgars the ruling elite, which also did not help the unification of the two groups into one nation. With the adoption of Christianity, the two groups actually became the same, in terms of religion, moral values and lifestyle. But, of course, Boris will punish his son according to the old Bulgar laws, firstly, because he lived by these laws all his life, secondly, his son himself wanted to return these beliefs and laws, It is written in the chronicles that Boris told his son "You want to bring back the old beliefs, so I will judge you according to the old laws", so I think it is fair enough. Because of his decision, we Bulgarians now exist as a Slavic-speaking people with a not-so-Slavic appearance...

Left a like. The imperial title is Tzar, by the way.

So many conflicts in the Balkans cus so many different cultures are clusterfucked into tiny space that confict is just inevitable

we didn't overtake it all. i am Bulgarian

Nikov is the first Bulgarian historian to pay special attention to, and attri bute great significance to, the Turkic components in the Bulgarian ethnogen esis (i.e., after the Bulgars) and among the ruling aristocracy. He elaborated on the issue of the "Turkic element's" influence upon Bulgarian history in a 1928 unpublished manuscript (delivered as a public lecture). Nikov began with the following policy-setting statement: There is no period in our history on which the Turkic element did not exert its strongest influence and did not leave the deepest traces in the development of our people. [...] None of the Balkan peoples has experi enced the Turkic influence so strongly as our people, The Turkic pressure began from Central Asia and had two directions to the northwest through southern Russia, and to the southwest through Persia and Asia Minor. The Bulgarian state was founded due to one of the Turkic peoples, the Bulgars, who themselves joined a number of Turkic tribal alliances (of Huns, Kutrigurs, Utigurs, Avars, and Khazars). During Byzantine rule, the Turkic Pechenegs and Uz came from the north; many of them crossed the Danube and were assimilated by the Bulgarian people. Then came the Cumans, without whose decisive help the uprising of Asenevtsi would hardly have succeeded. Thus, just as the First Bulgarian Kingdom was founded with the help of the Turkic Bulgars, the Second Kingdom was founded with "the decisive collabora tion of the Turkic Cumans."129 Not only did Cumans settle south of the Danube and become assimilated and absorbed by the Slavic-Bulgarian people, but they were also of great significance politically in the Second Kingdom, whose dynas ties all had Cuman blood in them. There were also many Bulgarian boyars of Cuman origin, including Balic in Dobrudzha. It could even be said that the Cumans acquired a dominant position in the political life of the state. 130 There followed the influence of the Mongol Tartars, who even supplied one Bulgarian king, Chaka. But of greatest importance were the Ottoman and Seljuk Turks, who conquered the Balkans from Asia Minor. Concerning the Cumans, Nikov considers the "transfusion of blood" from Turkic "elements" an asset, a means of rejuvenating and strengthening the "race" and enhancing the vitality of the Bulgarian people (in contrast with the conquering Turks).

He used the old Bulgarian tradition because his son liked the old ways so he punished him in the old ways you know like you get what you want thats it.

Also the reaosn so many conflicts are in the balknas is because usually we look at our naibours as lets say cousins mostly we have simular languages we have sheared history but the problem is that when some of them dont recognize what the others have done for them we are very proud and we take it as a very serous insult also for example Bulgaria views Serbia usually as cousin like country and people however they have always everytime they had the chance they stabed Bulgaria in the back and you know am if i can say it metaforically the knife cuts deepest when its from the family or from the closest friends and we at the Balkans tend to remember those thing and its hard to wash that if you nkow what i mean.

Just to let you know something First of all Slav or Slavic is a term for people speaking simular lagnauges there is almost nothing related to the dna Second It was not a union beatween Bulgars and Slavs what history and dna etc has shown us toady is that actually the Bulgariarns were many if not even more then the slavs in the region and todays Bulgarians are the same as the Bulgarians before thats what a study by Svetoslav Samov a dna sciantist backed up from Harvard have found out that todays Bulgarians have 70 or even 80 procent the same DNA as the Bulgarians from the time of Tsar Simeon the Great so Bulgarians are Bulgarians sure there is alway a little drop of slavic in this region however it doesnt matter if the magority is in this case Bulgarian. Love the reaction by the way there are just some things that this video misses or gets wrong a little bit and Bulgaria is a super power since it was established in 681 by Khan Asparuh it defieted the Byzantium Empire or what it is actually is ROME Also Simeon was never a Prince he was Tsar which means Emperor they got that wrong as well. good luck bro and have fun with the videos keep it up.