1396 Vidin (Бъдин) kingdom was defeated. After the Ottoman conquest, many Bulgarian clerics and scholars emigrated to Serbia, Wallachia, Moldavia, and Russian principalities, where they introduced Bulgarian culture, books, and hesychastic ideas. Maps See also List of Bulgarian monarchs Bulgarian dialects Bulgarian Exarchate Bulgarian language Bulgarians Byzantine–Bulgarian wars Early Cyrillic alphabet History of Bulgaria History of Europe History of Sofia History of the Balkans Huns Kingdom of Bulgaria List of empires List of medieval great powers List of predecessors of sovereign states in Europe List of sovereign states by date of formation § Europe Principality of Bulgaria South Slavs Timeline of Bulgarian history Timeline of sovereign states in Europe References Works cited Further reading 1396 disestablishments in Europe 1st millennium in Bulgaria 2nd millennium in Bulgaria 681 establishments Bulgarian Emp Bulgarian Emp Bulgarian Emp Empire Bulgarian Emp Bulgarian Emp 2nd-millennium disestablishments in Bulgaria