MosaicLater depiction

Saint Demetrius

† c. 306

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Cut-out detail; background removed. Isaac II coin, 12th century, in electrum, an alloy of gold and silver. No link to the wedding tax is established. — The Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0 1.0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

People are afraid to rebel, the medieval author tells us. The brothers build a church for St Demetrius, honoured as Thessaloniki’s protector.

Scene 2 · Peter, Asen and the revolt of 1185

Look at St Demetrius Church below Trapezitsa in Veliko Tarnovo.

Scene 3 · Peter, Asen and the revolt of 1185

The dream where St Demetrius shows Asen a place with a fiery sword is a legend.

Scene 8 · Peter, Asen and the revolt of 1185

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Antiquity

Peter, Asen and the revolt of 1185

Sources

Niketas Choniates; Harry J. Magoulias (translator) O City of Byzantium: Annals of Niketas Choniatēs PDF Byzantine Texts in Translation; Wayne State University Press, Detroit · 1984 · 203–206
БДЖ – Пътнически превози ЕООД (institutional publisher; individual author not stated) Цар Иван Асен I, 1187–1196 PDF Поредица Български владетели · 1–2
Евгени Дерменджиев За патриаршеския комплекс, царския дворец и фортификацията на средновековната крепост на хълма Царевец в предстоличния Търнов PDF Известия на Регионален исторически музей – Велико Търново · 2016 · XXXI · 39–100

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Anastasia Dobyčina A “Divine Sanction” on the Revolt: The Cult of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica and the Uprising of Peter and Asen (1185–1186) Studia Ceranea, University of Lodz · 2012 · 2 · 113–126
Туристическо дружество „Трапезица-1902“ Пътеводител „17 туристически маршрута в община Велико Търново“ / Guidebook “17 tourist routes in Veliko Tarnovo Municipality” PDF ТД „Трапезица-1902“, Велико Търново; издание с подкрепата на община Велико Търново · 2015 · 12–13
Kirił Marinow Tărnovgrad Viewed by the Others: the Case of Niketas Choniates Studia Ceranea, University of Lodz · 2021 · 11 · 301–320
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Coin Nomisma Isaac II, 22.122.1 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Регионален исторически музей – Велико Търново Църквата “Св. Димитър” – Велико Търново Museum object catalogue
Регионален исторически музей – Велико Търново Архитектурно – музеен резерват „Царевец“ Museum object catalogue
Marko Pijović Late Medieval Vlachs in the Western Balkans, 13th to 15th centuries: Orality, Society and the Limits of Collective Identities PDF Balcanica Posnaniensia · 2021 · XXVIII/1 · 65–92
Исторически музей Приморско Свети Димитър – Покровител на българите Museum Primorsko, news · 2017
Foteini Spingou Classicizing Visions of Constantinople after 1204: Niketas Choniates’ De signis Reconsidered PDF Dumbarton Oaks Papers · 2022 · 76 · 181–220
István Vásáry Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185–1365 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; ISBN 9780521837569 · 2005
Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East The Great Martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-gusher of Thessalonica Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch

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The church and the beginning of a tsardom

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