Battle of Constantinople

When

922

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

42.03° N, 28.93° E

Description

922 battle between Byzantium and Bulgaria

Successful siege of Constantinople in 922

The battle of Constantinople was fought in June 922 at the outskirts of the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, between the forces of the First Bulgarian Empire and the Byzantines during the Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927. In the summer the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos sent troops under the commander Saktikios to repel another Bulgarian raid at the outskirts of the Byzantine capital.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Summer – Battle of Constantinople: Emperor Romanos I sends Byzantine troops to repel another Bulgarian raid at the outskirts of Constantinople”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Konstantinopolis Muharebesi gerçekleşti”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Été : Siméon de Bulgarie menace à nouveau Constantinople ; il doit battre en retraite à l'automne”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “битва при Константинополе”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• Byzantine–Bulgarian War of 913–927913 · War