Tsar Ivan Asen II
† 1241
Ruler during the flowering of the Second Empire.
Under Ivan Asen II Bulgaria reached wide territorial and cultural influence. Tarnovo strengthened as a capital of faith, power, and letters.
His era appears in monuments and textbooks as an example of medieval statehood.
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