Archangels Chapel in Rila Monastery David of Bulgaria - 1845. David ( cu, Даві́дъ bg, Давид) (died 976) was a

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noble, brother of Emperor

Samuel Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bibl ...

and eldest son of ''komes'' Nicholas, member of the

Cometopuli The Kometopuli dynasty (Bulgarian: , Bulgarian; ; Byzantine Greek: , ) was the last royal dynasty in the First Bulgarian Empire, ruling from ca. 976 until the fall of Bulgaria under Byzantine rule in 1018. The most notable member of the dynasty ...

dynasty.Chris Kostov, Contested Ethnic Identity: The Case of Macedonian Immigrants in Toronto, 1900-1996, Peter Lang, 2010, , p. 91. After the disastrous invasion of Rus' armies and the fall of North-eastern Bulgaria under

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occupation in 971, he and his three younger brothers took the lead of the defence of the country. They executed their power together and each of them governed and defended a separate region. He ruled the southernmost parts of the realm from

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and

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and was responsible for the defence the dangerous borders with

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and

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. In 976 he participated in the major assault against the

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but was killed by vagrant Vlachs between Prespa and Kostur.

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