Cometopulus David

Komit David was an important figure in the southwestern part of the First Bulgarian Empire, active in the second half of the 10th century. He was the eldest of Komit Nikola's four sons and emerged as a military leader in the struggle against Byzantium to recover the empire's eastern territories, conquered by the Byzantines five years earlier.

David is thought to have ruled an area in southeastern Macedonia between the Vardar and Bistritsa rivers, or in the southwest, at Prespa.

David's life ended tragically when wandering Vlachs killed him at a place on the road between Prespa and Kastoria called the Beautiful Oaks. Whether Byzantium organised his murder remains a matter of speculation, since the principal source for these events, John Skylitzes, is silent on the question.

In 993, the Bulgarian commander Samuel erected a stone inscription commemorating his eldest brother David and their parents Nikola and Ripsimia. This inscription was discovered in the 10th-century Church of St Germanos near German village by Lake Prespa. David became the subject of popular canonisation, and his image appears in dozens of 19th-century churches.