Balik of Karvuna

Balik (fl. c. 1320, died 1347) was a Bulgarian noble who built the Principality of Karvuna into a virtually independent state in the region later called Dobrudja, ruling from the fortress of Kaliakra.

In the Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 he backed the regent Anna of Savoy against John VI Kantakouzenos. He died in 1347, either in the Black Death or in a retaliatory campaign by the Turkish emir Umur Beg that destroyed Dobrudja's seaports. His brother Dobrotitsa succeeded him after recapturing Karvuna in 1354.