Despot Dobrotitsa: Medieval Bulgarian Capital Tarnovo and Kaliakra fortress during the 14^th century
Деспот Добротица. Царевград Търнов и Калиакра през XIV век
Category: Second Bulgarian Kingdom
Language: Bulgarian

   Dobrotitsa was a Bulgarian noble, ruler of the de facto independent Principality of Karvuna and the Kaliakra fortress from 1354 to 1379—1386. In 1346, Dobrotitsa and his brother Theodore were sent along with 1000 soldiers by the Dobrujan ruler Balik to help the Byzantine Empress Anna of Savoy in the civil war against John VI Kantakouzenos, but were defeated by George Phakrases. The following year, after the death of Balik, he became the ruler of Dobruja. In 1348 Dobrotitsa took over the fortress of Midia and by 1356 managed to seize Kozyak and Emona from the Byzantines. In 1366 Emperor Ivan Alexander refused to allow the Byzantine emperor John V Palaiologos, who was returning home from Hungary, passage through Bulgaria. In order to force the Bulgarians, a relative of John V, Count Amadeus VI of Savoy, then leading his own the Savoyard crusade, attacked the Bulgarian coastal towns. In the fall of the same year Amadeo's navy captured Anchialos, Mesembria, Emona and on 25 October he besieged the strong fortress Varna, where he was repulsed. As a result, Ivan Alexander gave the Byzantines safe conduct across Bulgaria and they kept the conquered towns. In 1369 Dobrotitsa and Vladislav I of Wallachia helped Ivan Alexander to defeat the Hungarians and retake Vidin. Out of gratitude, the Emperor gave Dobrotitsa Emona and Kozyak. Later he built a navy in Varna which was engaged in actions as far as Trebizond. The Genoese manuscripts write that his navy was very strong albeit rather small and achieved successes against the Ottomans and Genoese. He was succeeded by his son Ivanko in 1386.

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Глава I. Цар Йоан Александър Асен и престолът в Царевград Търнов. Гражданската война във Византия (1341—1347)

Глава II. Карвунската земя

1. Обетованата земя на българите

2. Карвунската хорà

Глава III. Ad partes del Zagora, subditas Dobrotice. Земите (областите) на България, подчинени на Добротица

1. Цар Йоан Александър и деспот Добротица. Династията Тертер

2. Цар Йоан Шишман и деспот Добротица — 1371—1385 г. Конфликтът с Генуа. Императорското владение "Загора". Управлението на Дръстър и Йоанко Тертер. Наследникът на деспот Добротица

3. Калиакра — градът на деспот Добротица и на деспот Йоанко Тертер

Библиография

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