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Apr 2024
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Episode 289 - Kaloyan, Tsar of Bulgaria

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With Baldwin and Boniface dead the Bulgarians run riot across Thrace. Their Tsar Kaloyan attempts to capture Thessalonica and ponders whether he could become the new Roman Emperor.


Period: 1204-07



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