The Bulgarian Empire lasted over seven centuries, but it was a reign of war and tears. Great Tsar, Simeon I, ruler of one of the greatest European empires, your people are ready for your leadership once again. He learned fluent Greek, to the extent that he was referred to as "the half-Greek" in Byzantine chronicles.
Because his eldest brother Vladimir was designated heir to the Bulgarian throne, Boris intended Simeon to become a high-ranking cleric, possibly Bulgarian archbishop, and sent him to the leading University of Constantinople to receive theological education when he was thirteen or fourteen. As Boris was the ruler who Christianized Bulgaria in 865, Simeon was a Christian all his life. Simeon was born in 864 or 865, as the third son of Knyaz Boris I of Krum's dynasty. From the 6th century the easternmost South Slavs gradually settled in the region, assimilating the Hellenised or Romanised Thracians. The first Christian monastery in Europe was established around the same time by Saint Athanasius in central Bulgaria. A small Gothic community in Nicopolis ad Istrum produced the first Germanic language book in the 4th century, the Wulfila Bible. By this time, Christianity had already spread in the area. After the division of the Roman Empire in 5th century the area fell under Byzantine control. Most of their numerous tribes were united in the Odrysian kingdom around 500 BC by king Teres, but they were eventually subjugated by Alexander the Great and later by the Romans in 46 AD. Thracians, one of the three primary ancestral groups of modern Bulgarians, began appearing in the region during the Iron Age. This site also offers insights for understanding the social hierarchy of the earliest European societies. Some of these first gold smelters produced the coins, weapons and jewellery of the Varna Necropolis treasure, the oldest in the world with an approximate age of over 6,000 years. The latter is credited with inventing gold working and exploitation. Organised prehistoric societies in Bulgarian lands include the Neolithic Hamangia culture, Vinča culture and the eneolithic Varna culture (fifth millennium BC). Animal bones incised with man-made markings from Kozarnika cave are assumed to be the earliest examples of symbolic behaviour in humans. Human activity in the lands of modern Bulgaria can be traced back to the Paleolithic.
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