Sviatoslav subsequently (probably in 968 or 969) …
Years: 968 - 968
Sviatoslav subsequently (probably in 968 or 969) destroys the Khazar capital of Atil.
A visitor to Atil wrote soon after Sviatoslav's campaign: "The Rus attacked, and no grape or raisin remained, not a leaf on a branch." (The exact chronology of his Khazar campaign is uncertain and disputed; for example, Mikhail Artamonov and David Christian proposed that the sack of Sarkel came after the destruction of Atil.)
Locations
People
Groups
- Jews
- Oghuz Turks
- Khazar Khaganate
- Pechenegs, or Patzinaks
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Macedonian dynasty
- Kievan Rus', or Kiev, Great Principality of
