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Following his defeat of the Magyars, Simeon …
Years: 896 - 896
Following his defeat of the Magyars, Simeon finally releases the imperial prisoners in exchange for Bulgarians captured in 895.
Claiming that not all prisoners had been released, Simeon once again invades the Empire in the summer of 896, heading directly to Constantinople.
He is met in Thrace by a hastily assembled imperial army, but annihilates those forces in the Battle of Bulgarophygon (at modern Babaeski, Turkey).
Leo VI, arming Arab captives and sending them to fight with the Bulgarians as a desperate measure, manages to repel the Bulgarians from Constantinople, which they had besieged.
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- Arab people
- Hungarian people
- Slavs, South
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Bulgarians (South Slavs)
- Khazar Khaganate
- Pechenegs, or Patzinaks
- Francia Orientalis (East Francia), Kingdom of
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Macedonian dynasty
- Abbasid Caliphate (Baghdad)
- Bulgarian Empire (First)
- Hungary, Principality of
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- Arab-Byzantine Wars
- Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars
- Hungarian invasions of Europe
- Bulgarian-Byzantine War of 889-97
- Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin
- Boulgarophygon, Battle of
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Years: 896 - 896
Locations
People
Groups
- Arab people
- Hungarian people
- Slavs, South
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Bulgarians (South Slavs)
- Khazar Khaganate
- Pechenegs, or Patzinaks
- Francia Orientalis (East Francia), Kingdom of
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Macedonian dynasty
- Abbasid Caliphate (Baghdad)
- Bulgarian Empire (First)
- Hungary, Principality of
Topics
- Arab-Byzantine Wars
- Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars
- Hungarian invasions of Europe
- Bulgarian-Byzantine War of 889-97
- Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin
- Boulgarophygon, Battle of
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions