The Teutonic Knights, the Cumans and Bulgaria in the Second Decade of the Thirteenth Century (1211–1225) Cover Image

Тевтонският орден, куманите и България през второто десетилетие на XIII в. (1211–1225)
The Teutonic Knights, the Cumans and Bulgaria in the Second Decade of the Thirteenth Century (1211–1225)

Author(s): Ivelin A. Ivanov
Subject(s): History, History of ideas, Military history, Middle Ages, 13th to 14th Centuries
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: Teutonic Order;Cumans; Second Bulgarian Tsardom; Burzenland.

Summary/Abstract: The paper refers to the Bulgarian-Cuman relations during the reign of tsar Boril. According to many researchers, the deteriorated Bulgarian-Cuman relations resulted from the Bulgarian-Hungarian and Bulgarian-Latin alliance after 1214. For the most part, these conclusions sound logical, but at the same time a question related to the limited involvement of Cumans in Boril’s campaigns after 1211 arises. Contrary to researchers who focus on the South and the Bulgarian-Latin conflict, the author seeks a solution to the problem by analysing events to the North, reaching the lands of the Burzenland region in Eastern Transylvania. He analyses the Teutonic-Cuman conflict of 1211–1222, and the success of the Teutons in Cumania after 1215. Finally, the author concludes that the dramatic change in the Bulgarian- Cuman relations could be explained by a new source of military and political influence that emerged in the second decade of the 13th century – The Teutonic Order.

  • Issue Year: XXVI/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 383-393
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bulgarian