Basil II aims solely at the extension …
Years: 995 - 995
Basil II aims solely at the extension and consolidation of imperial authority at home and abroad.
The main fields of external conflict are in Syria, Armenia, and Georgia on the eastern front, in the Balkans, and in southern Italy.
He has maintained the imperial position in Syria against aggression stirred up by the Fatimid dynasty in Egypt and on occasion has made forced marches from Constantinople across Asia Minor to relieve Antioch.
By aggression and by diplomacy, he has secured land from Georgia and from Armenia, with the promise of more to come on the death of the Armenian ruler.
Basil launches a lightning campaign against the Muslim Arabs in 995, personally leading an army of forty thousand men (with eighty thousand mules).
Riding through Anatolia in sixteen days, he reaches Aleppo in April 995, forcing the Fatimid army to retreat without giving battle, taking over the Orontes valley, and raiding further south.
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People
Groups
- Arab people
- Armenian people
- Christianity, Chalcedonian
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Islam
- Muslims, Sunni
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Ismailism
- Tao-Klarjeti (Georgian [Kartvelian] kingdoms and principalities)
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Macedonian dynasty
- Abbasid Caliphate (Baghdad)
- Hamdanid Dynasty
- Aleppo, Hamdanid Emirate of
- Armenia, Bagratid
- Bulgarian Empire (First)
- Fatimid Caliphate
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Years: 995 - 995
Locations
People
Groups
- Arab people
- Armenian people
- Christianity, Chalcedonian
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Islam
- Muslims, Sunni
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Ismailism
- Tao-Klarjeti (Georgian [Kartvelian] kingdoms and principalities)
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Macedonian dynasty
- Abbasid Caliphate (Baghdad)
- Hamdanid Dynasty
- Aleppo, Hamdanid Emirate of
- Armenia, Bagratid
- Bulgarian Empire (First)
- Fatimid Caliphate
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions