Radio Amateurs from Bulgaria will be active with special call LZ1340B commemorating 1340th anniversary of the first Bulgarian Empire.
They will operate on HF Bands.
QSL via LZ3SM.
Ads for direct QSL:
SVETOZAR GERASHEV, P.O.BOX 830, 1000, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Information from their qrz page:
The Bulgars of Asparuh moved westwards to what is now Bessarabia, subdued the territories to the north of the Danube in modern Wallachia, and established themselves in the Danube Delta. In the 670s they crossed the Danube into Scythia Minor, nominally a Byzantine province, whose steppe grasslands and pastures were important for the large herd stocks of the Bulgars in addition to the grazing grounds to the west of the Dniester River already under their control.
In 680 the Byzantine Emperor Constantine IV (r. 668–685), having recently defeated the Arabs, led an expedition at the head of a huge army and fleet to drive off the Bulgars but suffered a disastrous defeat at the hands of Asparuh at Onglos, a swampy region in or around the Danube Delta where the Bulgars had set a fortified camp.The Bulgars advanced south, crossed the Balkan Mountains and invaded Thrace.
In 681, the Byzantines were compelled to sign a humiliating peace treaty, forcing them to acknowledge Bulgaria as an independent state, to cede the territories to the north of the Balkan Mountains and to pay an annual tribute.
This was the first state that the empire recognised in the Balkans and the first time it legally surrendered claims to part of its Balkan dominions.The Byzantine chronicler Theophanes the Confessor wrote of the treaty:
...the Emperor [Constantine IV] signed peace with them [the Bulgars], and agreed to pay them tribute for shame of the Romans and for our many sins. For it was wondrous for faraway and close peoples to hear that he, who made everyone pay him tribute – to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south, had been defeated by these unclean and newly emerged people.
They will operate on HF Bands.
QSL via LZ3SM.
Ads for direct QSL:
SVETOZAR GERASHEV, P.O.BOX 830, 1000, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Information from their qrz page:
The Bulgars of Asparuh moved westwards to what is now Bessarabia, subdued the territories to the north of the Danube in modern Wallachia, and established themselves in the Danube Delta. In the 670s they crossed the Danube into Scythia Minor, nominally a Byzantine province, whose steppe grasslands and pastures were important for the large herd stocks of the Bulgars in addition to the grazing grounds to the west of the Dniester River already under their control.
In 680 the Byzantine Emperor Constantine IV (r. 668–685), having recently defeated the Arabs, led an expedition at the head of a huge army and fleet to drive off the Bulgars but suffered a disastrous defeat at the hands of Asparuh at Onglos, a swampy region in or around the Danube Delta where the Bulgars had set a fortified camp.The Bulgars advanced south, crossed the Balkan Mountains and invaded Thrace.
In 681, the Byzantines were compelled to sign a humiliating peace treaty, forcing them to acknowledge Bulgaria as an independent state, to cede the territories to the north of the Balkan Mountains and to pay an annual tribute.
This was the first state that the empire recognised in the Balkans and the first time it legally surrendered claims to part of its Balkan dominions.The Byzantine chronicler Theophanes the Confessor wrote of the treaty:
...the Emperor [Constantine IV] signed peace with them [the Bulgars], and agreed to pay them tribute for shame of the Romans and for our many sins. For it was wondrous for faraway and close peoples to hear that he, who made everyone pay him tribute – to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south, had been defeated by these unclean and newly emerged people.