State Organisation and Power Hierarchy in the Bulgarian Empire (927–969)

Type:

Book Chapter

Author:

Georgi N. Nikolov

Published:

2018

Publisher:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Fol lowing the conversion of the Bulgarians to Christianity in 864-866 there were changes in the organisation of the Bulgarian state.However, these were not significant and mostly concerned the elements of the state organism which were inherently pagan.A notable change was the abolition of the religious function of the ruler as a high priest in the pagan religion of the Bulgars, as well as the disappearance of those civil servants who ministered to the pagan cult, e.g.: , , , 1 .At the same time, a number of (proto)Bulgarian titles and positions, known from the times before the conversion, were preserved; among those were , , , , etc.Administratively, the Bulgarian Empire of the 10 th century was still divided into the Internal Region (now North-eastern Bulgaria and Northern Dobrudzha) and the External (provincial) comitatus.The ruler's institution remained the core one in the state.Most probably at the beginning of June 927, after commemorating the ninth day of the death of Symeon the Great ( May 27, 927), his son Peter (927-968, 1 .

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