Bulgaria from Black to White Sea!

[CanadianGoose]

Bulgarians call a body of water, known in English as "Aegean Sea", "White Sea". Bulgaria claimed part of Thrace for a long time (from 1870 to 1940s) as part of ethnic Bulgarian territory. Therefore their slogan (in Bulgarian) was "Bulgaria from Black to White Sea!" Your challenge, would you accept it, to have an entity named "Bulgaria" stretched from Black Sea to White Sea.

P.S. Installing ethnic Bulgarian dynasty in Moscow through dynastic marriage akin to OTL Paleologs would be viewed as cheap trickery.

 

[Anaxagoras]

I believe it has done so multiple times in its history IOTL.

 

[I Blame Communism]

I believe it has done so multiple times in its history IOTL.

I think me means having it stretch to what we'd call the White Sea. Query: does it have to be a Slavic Bulgarian state? Could it be a Turkic Bulgar one, or would that also be cheating?

 

[CanadianGoose]

I think me means having it stretch to what we'd call the White Sea.

Exactly. From Burgas to Arkhangel & Kola.

Query: does it have to be a Slavic Bulgarian state? Could it be a Turkic Bulgar one, or would that also be cheating?

Both your ideas (Slavic Bulgarian and Turkic Bulgarian) are fine. I just added the disclaimer to avoid somebody marrying Grand Duke of Moscow to a Bulgarian princess and claiming "mission accomplished".

 

[Alexandru H.]

Asparuch does not enter Bulgaria but organizes a few attacks against the slavic tribes in modern-day Russia. He manages to reach the White Sea, where he is killed by a big bear. His empire crumbles days after his death and bulgarians simply vanish from history. One century after these events, a fire destroys the only chronicles about Asparuch's conquests. In 1924, all we know about the bulgarians is that they were a random tribe in Eastern Europe. Unfortunately, the sole historian interested in their history is discovered to be a fraud. Dismissed from the university, he forms a Nazi party then tries to conquer the world. After his demise, all his interests become tabula rasa for our society, even bulgarians.

Of course, if you wouldn't want Bulgaria to reach the White Sea, we could arrange for Asparuch to conquer northern Balkans. I have a feeling the Bulgarians would do much better...