contrasts with the history of other Balkan countries (Serbia, Albania), the narrative of the fall of medieval Bulgaria under Ottoman power cannot be based on any significant event or personality. The reason for this is the historical circumstances surrounding the history of this narrative: at the 19th st, the historians and builders of the Bulgarian nation were concerned about the unity of those they wanted to bring together. The cause of the fall under the Ottomans was therefore not seen as an ethnic or religious clash, but as an internal decadence of Bulgarian society, rotated by its Greek elites while the population remained healthy. The remarkable absence of a royal myth, replaced by the myth of the sovereign people, is therefore the result of a marked anti-elitist in the constitution of the Bulgarian national ideology.