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
Famous quotes containing the word names:
“The names of those who in their lives fought for life,
Who wore at their hearts the fire’s centre.
Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun,
And left the vivid air signed with their honour.”
—Stephen Spender (1909–1995)
“A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I’ve been called by a million names all my life. I don’t want a name. I’m better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.”
—Bernardo Bertolucci (b. 1940)
“All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity—their links with their dead and the unborn.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)