Bulgaria's Medieval Capital Resurrected in Unique Model

It looks great!

And sorry for some Byzantine a-hole emperors. They were nasty people, no doubt.

This is brilliant for several reasons:

1. The model is spectacular!
2. That there is someone in this country who has the patience and ability to do this for the love of it.
3. That there is a news report on something positive in Bulgaria that has nothing to do with money.

Dino, it's greedy nobles...Bulgaria had friends in some Emperors, but Byzantine nobles assassinated each other regularly so unity between Bulgaria n Byzantium couldn't happen. A friendly emperor gets replaced by some hothead that wants to increase his family's lands and then its war.

We tried conquest to settle things but always faced some stupid bad luck, like when the Tsar gets a heart attack the night before the battle...lol..

Bulgaria n Byzantium wanted the same thing, unity, but at what terms depended a lot on the nobles and probably the priesthood from both camps

Bulgaria n Byzantium fought each other more than with anyone else, for the longest time...

At least here we did a great deed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(717–718)
Bulgarians defeat the Arab forces on land, Byzantines defeat them on the water with Greek fire.
Think the Arabs were ca 240 000 at the most, heard from various sources, kinda a lot more than the what? 15 000 at Tours France? and more than siege of Vienna, or Kosovo Polje.
Bulgarians were ca 50 000, all heavy cavalry n packed a punch. The forces we could bring up before our decline, had things remained normal then the Ottomans would have gotten such a beating they would have run back crying all the way to Mongolia.

Reminds me of 1st Balkan War, Bulgaria was the key land-force against Ottomans (larger than Greece & Serbia's combined) huge number of population in army, and Greece made crucial moves on the sea keeping Ottomans from landing forces behind our backs.

Medieval Ottomans first came when Bulgaria was divided n had civil war, or after 4th Crusade had already conquered Constantinople n the Empire was trying to recover. Turks pride themselves in ignorance, I have never heard a Turk say, "Yeah, that was really lucky for us, we came when they were weak". They always try to say they did something 'special' and most of them don't even know of what the 4th Crusade did, cuz that would interfere with their nonsense.

I think if Bulgaria n Byzantium had managed to unite, as was the aim of all of our Tsars, then our combined might would have been unstoppable. The Turks when they came, would have instead a superior force, in skill and in numbers, we would have swept across the middle east like a whirlwind and conquered Mecca and planted the cross there. Read our military history, our cavalry was dread upon the battlefield. The Avars, Arabs, Byzantines, Latin Crusaders, all feared us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Achelous_(917)

Also, in modern history, not only do we put a ridiculous percentage of the population in the field, we have never lost a battle flag, ever.

There's too many enemies in the world for Bulgaria n Greece to not be strong allies. Turkey is more arrogant as one or the other, but not against both. Pfft Turkey, it's big because it genocided its neighbors, thats why they are so many. But numbers count not for much when we are united.

Yane:

Well said! Indeed if Bulgaria and Byzantium had united the fates of both would have been different.

And you are absolutely correct about the Byzantine nobles and their corrupt ways. It is these same nobles that invited all trouble to the empire by hiring dubious mercenaries who after seing the rotten administration took matters into their own hands, hence the enslavement by the Turks.

But this is all in the past and the future holds a strong promise of friendship between Bulgaria and Greece.

So, that you know. I am stern with the Tuks here in the forum eventhough I can feel for them. They have a completely rotten government that uses them as pawns in a pre-calculated Balkan policy of intrusion into the soveriegn affairs of other nations. This will not be tolerated, and Bulgaria's muslim minority is a breeding ground for this disgusting policy of Turkish interference with others.

So, when I unload on the Turks I unload on their evil government.

Ther is also a human and sensible side of Turkey but for now we need to keep these people at bay because they confuse kindness with weakness.

Turks have fantasies, population growth in Bulgaria's minorities is mostly by gypsies, not so much by muslims, so how the Turks think they can take over, I don't know. Heh, heh, while in Turkey the Kurds have higher birthrates n they are more conservative so they will continue down that path for quite a while longer than the Turks, + add Iraqi Kurdistan and it looks like Syria is falling apart which will free up more Kurds.

I'd say Turkey has bigger problems than the Balkans, but with their fascist education they think they can take over everything, pfft I foresee much humiliation for the Turks firstly by Israel, hehe.

Btw doesn't our airforces have joint airpatrols? I read that the Visegrad 4, Poland, Hungary, Czech Rep and Slovakia recently decided to form their own battlegroup of forces (outside NATO), we should do the same thing! A Balkan Battlegroup.