Agata, Samuilova supruga

Agata (grčki Άγάθη, bugarski Агата; 10. vijek) bila je supruga bugarskog cara Samuila,^[1]^[2] kojeg se često naziva i makedonskim carem. Agatin otac bio je Ivan Chryselios (Ἰωάννης Χρυσήλιος), lord Drača te je vjerovatno da je Agata rođena u Larisi.

Agatin sin, car Gavril. Srednjovjekovna minijatura.

Agata se udala za Samuila, ali nije poznato kada. Ovo su njihova djeca:

Gavril Radomir, car Bugarske
Miroslava Bugarska

Agata je vjerovatno umrla prije 998.

Popularna kultura uredi

Dimitar Talev pomenuo je Agatu u svom romanu Samuil.

Reference uredi

^ Dennis P. Hupchick (2017). The Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for Early Medieval Balkan Hegemony: Silver-Lined Skulls and Blinded Armies. Str. 312. „Pirivatrić, 82–83, suggested the possibility that Samuil's marriage to Agatha may have occurred as early as 976.” Springer.
^ Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. 1993. Bulgarian Historical Review. „Samuil, for instance was married to Agatha, the daughter of John Chruselius, governor of the strategically important region of Dyrrhachium.”

[1] Dennis P. Hupchick (2017). The Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for Early Medieval Balkan Hegemony: Silver-Lined Skulls and Blinded Armies. Str. 312. „Pirivatrić, 82–83, suggested the possibility that Samuil's marriage to Agatha may have occurred as early as 976.” Springer.

[2] Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. 1993. Bulgarian Historical Review. „Samuil, for instance was married to Agatha, the daughter of John Chruselius, governor of the strategically important region of Dyrrhachium.”

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