Simeon The Great (born 864/865—died May 27, 927),Tsar of the First Bulgarian Empire (893 – 927) and a warlike sovereign who nevertheless made Bulgaria a cultural center.

Simeon The Great  (born 864/865—died  May 27, 927),Tsar of the First Bulgarian Empire (893 – 927) and a warlike sovereign who nevertheless made Bulgaria a cultural center.

Educated in Constantinople, his dominant ambition was to ascend to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire.