Names
The most used name by contemporaries was Bulgaria. During Kaloyan's reign the state was sometimes called as both of Bulgarians and Vlachs. Pope Innocent III and other foreigners such as the Latin emperor Henry mentioned the state as Bulgaria and Bulgarian Empire in official letters.
In modern historiography the state is called the Second Bulgarian Empire, Second Bulgarian Tsardom or the Second Bulgarian Kingdom (to distinguish it from the First Bulgarian Empire). An alternative name (used in connection with the pre-mid 13th century period) is the Empire of Bulgarians and Vlachs, whose different variants include the Bulgarian-Vlach Empire, the Bulgarian-Wallachian Empire. or the Romanian-Bulgarian Empire (the last one exclusively in Romanian historiography)
Read more about this topic: Second Bulgarian Empire
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