Another war broke out in 913 years. The immediate cause of the conflict was the refusal to pay an annual tribute by the Emperor Alexander, the successor of lose weight death using the difficulties of regents, exercised on behalf of the 7-year-old Constantine VII, who had to fight the contenders to the throne, Simeon entered the how to lose weight fast and in August stood at the walls of Constantinople. The aim of the Bulgarian ruler was not this time looting or the conquest of new lands, but to gain the imperial crown. Simeon, called by the Byzantine half-Greek, docile pupil of his Greek masters, understand that there can be only one Roman Empire (Romejskie). Therefore undertook an attempt to replace the old empire based on the Greeks - a new, universal, because it covers all the peoples living in the Balkans, under the rule of the Bulgarians [11].

However, if your intentions boldness surpassed his predecessors, and soon he had become convinced that he would share their fate, the fate of those who targnęli most powerful fortress in the contemporary world. Regent, the patriarch of Constantinople, Nicholas tried to stop mystic Simeon, ex-brother in Christ, the letters which he wrote with tears rather than ink. The capital, however, was well prepared for defense, and this circumstance led Simeon to undertake negotiations with the government of the Byzantine [12]. Simeon was officially adopted at the imperial court by the patriarch Nicholas. The Byzantines had to recognize the superiority of Simeon. Regent of the empire, agreed to far-reaching concessions, actually surrendered before the mighty ruler of Bulgaria. At the imperial court issued a feast in honor of Tsar Simeon and his sons, and mystic Nicholas made ​​a symbolic ceremony of coronation [13]. The assistance of other members of the regency, he put his diadem on his head instead of your own omophorion [14].