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Michael II Asen (Bulgarian: Михаил II Асен; c. 1239 – December 1256/January 1257) was emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria from 1246 to 1256 or 1257. He was the...

Ivan Asen II, also known as John Asen II (Bulgarian: Иван Асен II, [iˈvan ɐˈsɛn ˈftɔri]; 1190s – May/June 1241), was Emperor (Tsar) of Bulgaria from 1218...

house of Romanov Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878–1918), the younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II Michael II Asen (1238/41–1256), tsar of Bulgaria...

The Asen dynasty, also called the Asenids (Bulgarian: Асеневци, Asenevtsi, Romanian: Asănești) founded and ruled a medieval Bulgarian state, called in...

Kaliman Asen II (Bulgarian: Калиман Асен II), or commonly, but less accurately Koloman Asen II, ruled as tsar of Bulgaria for a short time in 1256. The...

princess. She was the third wife of tsar Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria. She was the mother of tsar Michael Asen I of Bulgaria. Irene was daughter of Theodore...

names. Ivan Asen II (1218–1241) is sometimes recorded merely using his second name (Asen). His sons Kaliman Asen I (1241–1246) and Michael Asen I (1246–1256)...

encounters with the Byzantines. He first defeated the former emperor Michael Asen II, who unsuccessfully tried to advance into Bulgaria with a Byzantine...

Villehardouin refer to Asen's Wallachia, and the friar William of Rubruck divides Bulgaria during the realm of Michael II Asen into "Blakia—Assan's territory—and...

Michael Asen III (Bulgarian: Михаил Асен III, Mihail Asen III, commonly called Michael Shishman (Михаил Шишман, Mihail Šišman)), ruled as tsar of Bulgaria...

1279–1280. Ivan Asen III was the son of Mitso Asen of Bulgaria and Maria of Bulgaria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria and Irene of Thessalonica. He...

Mitso Asen (Bulgarian: Мицо Асен, Mico Asen), not Micho Asen (Мичо Асен, Mičo Asen), in Greek, Μύτζης, Mytzēs, was the tsar of Bulgaria from 1256 until...

marry Elena Asenina in 1235, to forge an alliance with her father, Ivan Asen II, Emperor of Bulgaria, against the Latin Empire of Constantinople. According...

I Asen (1241–1246), the country was ruled by a regency. When he died, a regency council led by Irina Komnina ruled on behalf of King Michael II Asen from...

1071–1078) Michael VIII Palaiologos (r. 1261–1282) Michael IX Palaiologos (r. 1294–1320) Michael II Asen (r. 1246–1256), tsar of Bulgaria Michael III Shishman...

Michael (Bulgarian: Михаил, Mihail) or probably more fully Michael Asen II was an emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria, the son of Emperor Constantine Asen I of...

emperor Robert of Courtenay in 1228, Ivan Asen II was considered the most probable choice for regent of Baldwin II. Theodore thought that Bulgaria was the...

Michael Asen II, her son by the late Constantine Tikh, whom Ivaylo killed at the beginning of the revolt. Although Ivaylo defeated several of Michael...

She ruled as regent from 1271 to 1279 on behalf of her minor son, Michael Asen II, who was made co-regent of her first spouse, and remained co-regent...

important source for the history of the Second Bulgarian Empire. Tsar Ivan Asen II (1218–1241) is the first Bulgarian ruler from whose reign coins are preserved...