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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: 860, 860s architecture, 860s births, 860s deaths, 861, 862, 863, 864, 865, 866, 867, 868, 869, Rollo, Carloman II, Ratramnus, Simeon I of Bulgaria, Al-Jahiz, Paschasius Radbertus, Yunmen Wenyan, Battle of Lalakaon, Rus'-Byzantine War, Christianization of the Rus' Khaganate, List of state leaders in 864, Eikan-d Zenrin-ji, List of state leaders in 867, List of state leaders in 866, List of state leaders in 863, List of state leaders in 862, List of state leaders in 869, List of state leaders in 865, List of state leaders in 868, List of state leaders in 861, List of state leaders in 860, Nalanda inscription, Ballshi Inscription, Sancho I of Pamplona, Patriarch John VII of Constantinople, Council of Capharthutha, Liudolf, Duke of Saxony, Arethas of Caesarea, Baldwin II, Count of Flanders, Ahmad ibn Asad, Pando of Capua, Battle of Brissarthe, AEthelhelm, tenmon Conspiracy, 860s in poetry, The Battle of 40. Excerpt: Simeon (also Symeon) I the Great (Bulgarian: , transliterated Simeon I Veliki ) ruled over Bulgaria from 893 to 927, during the First Bulgarian Empire. Simeon's successful campaigns against the Byzantines, Magyars and Serbs led Bulgaria to its greatest territorial expansion ever, making it the most powerful state in contemporary Eastern Europe. His reign was also a period of unmatched cultural prosperity and enlightenment later deemed the Golden Age of Bulgarian culture. During Simeon's rule, Bulgaria spread over a territory between the Aegean, the Adriatic and the Black Sea, and the new Bulgarian capital Preslav was said to rival Constantinople. The newly-independent Bulgarian Orthodox Church became the first new patriarchate besides the Pentarchy, and Bulgarian Glagolitic translations of Christian texts spread all over the Slavic world of the time. Halfway through his reign, Simeon assumed the title of Em..