Difference between revisions of "Kostadin the Black"
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Time fades even legend, and thus have the earliest years of Kostadin the Black been all but lost to history. Testimony from those prior affiliated with the necromancer have given some evidence to his birthplace being in the region of Elena, Bulgaria, but the authenticity of such has yet to be verified. Indeed much can be said for the vast majority of Kostadin's many years. | Time fades even legend, and thus have the earliest years of Kostadin the Black been all but lost to history. Testimony from those prior affiliated with the necromancer have given some evidence to his birthplace being in the region of Elena, Bulgaria, but the authenticity of such has yet to be verified. Indeed much can be said for the vast majority of Kostadin's many years. | ||
− | What is known from what historical record can be found, | + | What is known from what historical record can be found, is that Kostadin Vankov first appeared sometime in the late fifteenth century in Ottoman controlled Bulgaria as an insurgent leader. |
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+ | According to written reports within the archives of the Catholic Church, and collaborated by historical record held in the archives of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Kostadin Vankov was but the third leader of a group known as the “Sinove na Bŭlgariya” or Sons of Bulgaria. Opinion differs as to the goal of the insurgency group. While Catholic record insists that they were intent on combating the abuses inflicted upon christian minorities by the Ottoman Empire, Islamic record insists they were little more than the latest in a long line of groups intent on reforming the old Bulgarian Empire. | ||
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+ | Whatever the goal of the insurgency was, it became quickly apparent that under the leadership of Vankov they were anything but your typical bandit or rebel group. Existing dispatches from the region by the Ottoman's forces paint the picture of a nomadic group of numerous armed rebels who operated in bands of thirty to sixty. These rebels, operating under the guise of bandit groups, coordinated numerous strikes upon Ottoman forces within the Balkans during the dawn of the sixteenth century. | ||
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