Uprising of Asen and Peter
Bulgaria throws off Byzantine rule
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The boyar brothers Asen and Peter raised the Bulgarians and Vlachs against crushing Byzantine taxes. The revolt revived the Bulgarian state with its capital at Tarnovo, the Second Bulgarian Empire, independent of Byzantium from 1187.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1185 Prince Igor's campaign — same year
Middle East
- 1191 Third Crusade: capture of Acre — 6 years later
Asia
- 1192–1333 First shogunate in Japan — 7 years later
- 1192 Second Battle of Tarain — 7 years later
- 1206 Temüjin proclaimed Genghis Khan — 21 years later
- 1206 Founding of the Delhi Sultanate — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Saladin (aged 48)
- Genghis Khan (aged 23)
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (aged 59)
- Zhu Xi (aged 55)
- Henry II (aged 52)
- Minamoto no Yoritomo (aged 38)
- Vsevolod the Big Nest (aged 31)
- Richard the Lionheart (aged 28)
- Philip II Augustus (aged 20)
- John Lackland (aged 19)