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Byzantine recognition of Simeon's imperial title was revoked by the succeeding Byzantine government.

The decade 914 – 924 was spent in destructive warfare between Byzantium and Bulgaria over this and other matters of conflict.

The Bulgarian monarch, who had further irritated his Byzantine counterpart by claiming the title " Emperor of the Romans " ( basileus tōn Rōmaiōn ), was eventually recognized, as " Emperor of the Bulgarians " ( basileus tōn Boulgarōn ) by the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos in 924.

Byzantine recognition of the imperial dignity of the Bulgarian monarch and the patriarchal dignity of the Bulgarian patriarch was again confirmed at the conclusion of permanent peace and a Bulgarian-Byzantine dynastic marriage in 927.

In the meantime, the Bulgarian imperial title may have been also confirmed by the Pope.

The Bulgarian imperial title " Tsar " was adopted by all Bulgarian monarchs up to the fall of Bulgaria under Ottoman rule.

14th century Bulgarian literary compositions clearly denote the Bulgarian capital ( Tarnovo ) as a successor of Rome and Constantinople, in effect, the " Third Rome ".