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Ivan Vladislav
Ivan Vladislav (died 1018) was the last tsar of the First Bulgarian Empire, ruling from 1015 to 1018. A nephew of Samuel, whose life had been spared at Gavril Radomir's request when his father Aron was killed, he seized the throne by murdering Gavril Radomir. He continued the war against Basil II but was killed in 1018 while besieging Dyrrhachium, after which the Bulgarian nobility and his widow Maria surrendered.
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