Vlastimir was the Serbian prince from c. 830 until c. 851. Little is known of his reign. He held Serbia during the growing threat posed by the neighbouring, hitherto peaceful, First Bulgarian Empire, which had expanded significantly toward Serbia.
Emperor Theophilos, who was the overlord of the Serbs, was prohibited to aid Vlastimir in a potential war with the Bulgarians as a peace treaty was in effect. Some historians maintain that he had an important part in the Bulgar-Serb war.
The Bulgarian-Serbian wars were a series of conflicts between the Bulgarian Empire and medieval Serbian states between the 9th and 14th centuries in the central Balkans.
Boris I of Bulgaria
Prince Jovan Vladimir.
The Bulgarian Empire during the reign of Ivan Asen II (1218 – 1241)