Jovan Vladimir (died 1016) was ruler of Duklja, the most powerful Serbian principality of the time, from around 1000 to 1016. He ruled during the protracted war between the Byzantine Empire and the First Bulgarian Empire. His close relationship with Byzantium did not save Duklja from the expansionist Tsar Samuel of Bulgaria, who conquered the principality in around 1010 and took Jovan Vladimir prisoner. A medieval chronicle asserts that Samuel's daughter, Theodora Kosara, fell in love with Vladimir and begged her father for his hand. The tsar allowed the marriage and returned Duklja to Vladimir, who ruled as his vassal. Vladimir was acknowledged as a pious, just, and peaceful ruler. He took no part in his father-in-law's war efforts. The warfare culminated with Samuel's defeat by the Byzantines in 1014; the tsar died soon afterward. In 1016 Vladimir fell victim to a plot by Ivan Vladislav, the last ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire. He was beheaded in front of a church in Prespa, the empire's capital, and was buried there. He was soon recognized as a martyr and saint; his feast day is celebrated on 22 May.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1014:
Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars: Forces of the Byzantine Empire defeated troops of the Bulgarian Empire at the Battle of Kleidion in the Belasica Mountains near present-day Klyuch, Bulgaria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kleidion
1836:
The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, commemorating those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, was formally inaugurated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_de_Triomphe
1947:
ENIAC (pictured), the world's first general-purpose electronic digital computer, was turned on in its new home at the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
1950:
Korean War: U.S. Army 7th Cavalry Regiment troops concluded four days of shootings of civilians, sparked by fears that columns of refugees might contain North Korean spies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Gun_Ri_Massacre
1981:
A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watched the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_of_Charles,_Prince_of_Wales,_and_Lady_Diana_Spencer
2010:
An overloaded passenger ferry capsized on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasai_River_disaster
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
shipwrecky: 1. Characteristic of a shipwreck. 2. (figuratively) Weak, feeble; shaky. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shipwrecky
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living. --William Beebe https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Beebe
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