The Most Famous

COMPANIONS from Bulgaria

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This page contains a list of the greatest Bulgarian Companions. The pantheon dataset contains 784 Companions, 2 of which were born in Bulgaria. This makes Bulgaria the birth place of the 40th most number of Companions behind Switzerland, and Azerbaijan.

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bulgarian Companions of all time. This list of famous Bulgarian Companions is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. Kera Tamara (1301 - 1301)

With an HPI of 64.67, Kera Tamara is the most famous Bulgarian Companion.  Her biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.

Kera Tamara (Bulgarian: Кера Тамара; c. 1340 - c. 1389, known also as Tamara Hatun) was a Bulgarian princess, the daughter of the Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Alexander and his second wife Sarah-Theodora, and the legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan Murad I.

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2. Keratsa of Bulgaria (1348 - 1390)

With an HPI of 60.58, Keratsa of Bulgaria is the 2nd most famous Bulgarian Companion.  Her biography has been translated into 21 different languages.

Keratsa of Bulgaria (1348 – c.1400) was a Bulgarian princess and Byzantine empress consort as the wife of Andronikos IV Palaiologos. She was the mother of John VII Palaiologos.

People

Pantheon has 2 people classified as Bulgarian companions born between 1301 and 1348. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Bulgarian companions include Kera Tamara, and Keratsa of Bulgaria.

Deceased Bulgarian Companions

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