Kosara or Cossara (Bulgarian: ??????)[1] was a Bulgarian Empress, the wife of Tsar Samuel of Bulgaria. She married about 970.
Her father was John Chryselios from Dyrrhachium. His name and his heresy drive us towards the middle of the Armenians Paulicians.[2]
In contemporary Bulgaria, Kosara is a popular name traditionally associated with the Emperor Samuels family. Today, there is a village Kosara in Northern Bulgaria founded in 1750 by Armenians.[citation needed]
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Kosara of Bulgaria had many children. Some of them that we know are:
Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria, her son, was married to the Hungarian princess. He married to another women - Irena, after divorcing her. Gavril Radomir ruled the First Bulgarian Empire from October 1014 to September 1015.
Miroslava of Bulgaria, her daughter, fell in love with the Byzantine noble captive from Armenian origin Ashot of Taron and married to him around 998. Later she escaped with him to Byzantium.
Theodora Kosara of Bulgaria, her daughter, fell in love with Jovan Vladimir of Doclea who was prisoner of her father Samuel of Bulgaria. She married him. Doclea is in present day Montenegro.
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