The Byzantine domination period IMO should be included, because otherwise how would an uninformed reader expain the gap between the First and Second bulgarian empires?  /FunkyFly.talk_   19:10, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Also, "Independent Bulgaria" seems a bit ugly; wouldn't "Kingdom of Bulgaria" be better? It would be more coherent with the following "People's Republic of Bulgaria" and "Republic of Bulgaria".--Aldux 00:15, 21 June 2006 (UTC)