Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria complete

1018

Four years after Kleidion, Basil II entered Ohrid and received the submission of the last Bulgarian notables. The First Bulgarian Empire, after three and a half centuries, was extinguished by his patient grinding. Basil rode in triumph through Athens, dedicating his victory to the Virgin at the Parthenon. Bulgaria would not regain independence for nearly two centuries, until the Asen brothers rebelled in 1185.