Omourtag

Omourtag (in Bulgarian: Омуртаг) is Khan of Bulgaria from 814 to 831.

It succeeds his father Kroum, brutally dead, and lack of political experience. The businesses of State are managed by family members royal, Dukum and Cok, who persecute the Christian according to the Byzantine sources. The reign of Omourtag begin with an invasion from the Byzantine Empire, after the rejection of their peace overtures. The Bulgarian ones penetrate far in the South until current the Babaeski, but are beaten by the emperor Leon V, and Omourtag flees the battle field with only its horse. Omortag concludes a peace from 20 years with the Byzantines in 815, engraved on a column still preserved nowadays. The two sovereigns promulgate the treaty with the rites of their adversary, which scandalizes the Byzantine court. The treaty defines the border between the Empires Byzantine and Bulgarian, the statute of the Slavic tribes, and the conditions of exchange of the prisoners. When Michel II seizes the throne into 820, the peace treaty is confirmed, and Omourtag helps the emperor to cut down the rebellion of Thomas Slavic the into 823 or 824.

At the same time, Omourtag turns to North: inscriptions indicate that its capacity reached the Dniepr in the north, crossed by its troops (countryside against the Khazars or the Magyars) and the the Tisza in the west. In 818, the Slavic tribes of Timocani, Abodrites, and of Branicevci rebel against the Bulgarian authority and taxes, with the support of the frank emperor Louis the Piles. In 824 or 825, Omourtag establishes diplomatic contacts with the franque court to solve this conflict, but in front of the absence of co-operation of the Francs, it launches an ultimatum into 826 and sends a fleet which goes up the the Danube and takes again the control of the south-east of the Pannonia.

Inside, Omourtag undertakes vast constructions, in order to rebuilt Pliska, the Bulgarian capital destroyed by the Byzantines into 811, and to take again the development of regional centres, palate and fortifications. Omourtag continues persecutions against the Christians, in particular the Byzantine prisoners of war installed by his/her father Kroum in the north of the Danube. This persecution is justified either by the destruction of the Byzantines into 811, or by the proselytism of the captive Christians. He disinherits his oldest son, Enravota (or Voin), which was favorable to Christianity.

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