- Terter dynasty
:"For the city in Azerbaijan, see
Tərtər ."Terter ( _bg. Тертер), also Terterids or Terterovtsi (Тертеровци), was aBulgaria n noble androyal house that ruled theSecond Bulgarian Empire between 1280 and 1292, as well as between 1300 and 1323.The Terterids were originally of Cuman origincite book |url=http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/37569/frontmatter/9780521837569_frontmatter.pdf |title=Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185-1365 |last=Vásáry |first=István |language=English |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-83756-1] (i.e. from the western branch of the Turkic
Kipchaks ), [cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/146369/Cuman |title=Cuman |publisher=Britannica Online Encyclopedia |language=English |accessdate=2008-08-25 ] according to Plamen Pavlov they were a branch of the Cuman noble dynasty of Terteroba who had settled in Bulgaria as part of the second wave of Cuman migration, coming from theKingdom of Hungary after 1241. The Terteroba clan had ruled the steppe proto-state ofCumania in the late 11th century, as well as in the mid-13th century underKöten .cite book |title=Бунтари и авантюристи в средновековна България |first=Пламен |last=Павлов |language=Bulgarian |chapter="Авантюристът-скит" Алдимир и Теодор Светослав |chapterurl=http://liternet.bg/publish13/p_pavlov/buntari/avantiuristyt.htm |url=http://liternet.bg/publish13/p_pavlov/buntari/content.html |publisher=LiterNet |location=Варна |year=2005 |language=Bulgarian ]The earliest representatives of the dynasty in Bulgaria were the "despotēs"
Aldimir (Eltimir) and his older brother George Terter who was crowned emperor of Bulgaria asGeorge I of Bulgaria (1280-1292), marrying the Bulgarian Maria. After his reign, Bulgaria was under the "de facto" control of theGolden Horde , withNogai Khan nominating the next ruler, Smilets (1292-1298), who was of another noble family, and was briefly succeeded by his son Ivan II (1298-1299). In 1299-1300, Bulgaria was controlled by the Mongol Chaka. Chaka was deposed by George Terter's son,Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria (1300-1321), beginning the second reign of the Terterids, which also spanned that of his son,George II of Bulgaria .The Terter dynasty was succeeded by the
Shishman noble dynasty ofVidin , also of partial Cuman origin.Terter dynasty
* Aldimir (Eltimir)
** Yoan Dragushin
*George I of Bulgaria (ruled 1280-1292)
**Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria (ruled 1300-1321)
***George II of Bulgaria
** Anna, wife ofStefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia
** Elena, wife ofChaka of Bulgaria References
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