Postwar order in Byzantine Bulgaria

Name: Postwar order in Byzantine Bulgaria
Start: 1018
End: 1025

Type Event Region Europe Time 1018–1025

After Byzantium's conquest of the First Bulgarian Kingdom in 1018, the empire gradually established a new administrative and military order in the Ba…

Timeline

1018–1020Former Bulgarian lands · BulgariaByzantium established administrative units such as the Theme of Bulgaria in the former Bulgarian core lands, stationing garrison troops and appointing Byzantine civil officials to govern, replacing the independent Bulgarian tsarist regime.
1021–1025Balkans · BalkansBy around 1021, Byzantium's taxation, ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and local defense systems in the Balkans had stabilized; some Bulgarian nobles received imperial titles, and the rebellious Pechenegs and remnant forces were gradually suppressed.

Sources

The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025 — Mark Whittow (1996)
A History of the Byzantine State and Society — Warren Treadgold (1997)