Babu wata shaida da ta rage na babban juriya ko wani tashin hankalin al'ummar Bulgaria ko manyan mutane a cikin shekaru goma na farko bayan kafa mulkin Byzantine.Ganin kasancewar irin waɗannan abokan adawar da ba za a iya sulhuntawa ba ga Rumawa kamar Krakra, Nikulitsa, Dragash da sauransu, irin wannan fassarorin da ke bayyana yana da wuyar bayyanawa.Basil II ya ba da tabbacin rashin daidaituwa na Bulgaria a cikin tsoffin iyakokinta kuma bai soke mulkin gida na manyan mutanen Bulgaria ba a hukumance, wanda ya zama wani ɓangare na aristocracy na Byzantine a matsayin archons ko strategoi.Na biyu, sharuɗɗa na musamman (dokokin sarauta) na Basil II sun amince da autocephaly na Archbishop na Bulgarian na Ohrid kuma ya kafa iyakokinsa, tare da tabbatar da ci gaban dioceses da ke ƙarƙashin Samuil, dukiyoyinsu da sauran gata.Bayan mutuwar Basil II daular ta shiga cikin wani lokaci na rashin zaman lafiya.A cikin 1040, Peter Delyan ya shirya wani gagarumin tawaye, amma ya kasa maido da kasar Bulgaria kuma aka kashe shi.Ba da daɗewa ba, daular Komnenos ta zo cikin jerin gwano kuma ta dakatar da rushewar daular.A wannan lokacin kasar ta Byzantine ta sami kwanciyar hankali da ci gaba a karni guda.A cikin 1180 na ƙarshe na Komnenoi mai iyawa, Manuel I Komnenos, ya mutu kuma aka maye gurbinsa da daular Angeloi da ba ta da inganci, wanda ya ƙyale wasu manyan Bulgaria su shirya tawaye.A cikin 1185 Peter da Asen, manyan mashahuran da ake tsammani kuma sun yi hamayya da Bulgarian, Cuman, Vlach ko tushen asali, sun jagoranci tawaye ga mulkin Byzantine kuma Bitrus ya bayyana kansa Tsar Peter II.A shekara mai zuwa, an tilasta wa Rumawa su amince da 'yancin kai na Bulgaria.Bitrus ya sanya kansa "Tsar na Bulgars, Helenawa da Wallachians ".