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|The
Gold of Perperikon| Bulgaria
and Byzantium at War for Perperikon|
|Fragments
of the True Cross Found at Perperikon|
Bulgaria and Byzantium at War for Perperikon
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In 1254, Michael Asen, who had come of age, decided
to reclaim his father's possessions and marched south at the head
of a large army. In his history of the Byzantine Empire, the contemporary
scholar and statesman George Acropolites relates that in a very short
time the Bulgars subjected to their rule a vast territory with many
cities along the Maritsa River. They then marched on the Eastern Rhodope
and captured all the fortresses there, except for Mneakos, the administrative
centre of the region, which withstood the siege even though its fortifications
were almost destroyed..
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