Smilets of Bulgaria

Smilets was tsar of Bulgaria from 1292 to 1298. His boyar clan held broad lands, and he replaced George Terter I with the backing of Nogai Khan; his reign is seen as the height of Mongol overlordship over Bulgaria.

Early on he fought an unsuccessful war against Byzantium, and around 1296 or 1297 married his daughter Theodora to the future Serbian king Stefan Dečanski. In 1298, during Chaka's invasion, Smilets vanishes from the records, perhaps killed; his young son Ivan II briefly succeeded him.