Person

George I Terter

d. after 1308 · 13th century

George I Terter was tsar of Bulgaria from 1280 to 1292 and founder of the Terter dynasty, a noble family of Cuman origin. His reign was dominated by the Golden Horde warlord Nogai, to whom he had to submit and send his son Theodore Svetoslav as a hostage. In 1292 he fled to Byzantium; he later returned to Bulgaria during his son's reign and lived in retirement.

George I Terter
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