The Most Famous
COMPANIONS from Bulgaria
This page contains a list of the greatest Bulgarian Companions. The pantheon dataset contains 673 Companions, 2 of which were born in Bulgaria. This makes Bulgaria the birth place of the 38th most number of Companions behind Slovenia and Azerbaijan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bulgarian Companions of all time. This list of famous Bulgarian Companions is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Kera Tamara (1301 - 1301)
With an HPI of 56.80, Kera Tamara is the most famous Bulgarian Companion. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Kera Tamara (Bulgarian: Кера Тамара; c. 1340 - c. 1389, known also as Tamara Hatun) was a Bulgarian princess, the daughter of the Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Alexander and his second wife Sarah-Theodora, and the legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan Murad I.
2. Keratsa of Bulgaria (1348 - 1390)
With an HPI of 53.27, Keratsa of Bulgaria is the 2nd most famous Bulgarian Companion. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Keratsa-Maria of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Кераца-Мария; 1348–1390) was a princess of Bulgaria and Empress-consort of Andronikos IV Palaiologos.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as companions born between 1301 and 1348. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased companions include Kera Tamara and Keratsa of Bulgaria. As of April 2022, 1 new companions have been added to Pantheon including Kera Tamara.
