What the records say
- When
- Mar 559
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 41.00° N, 28.33° E
- Description
- 559 battle of the Byzantine-Kutrigur war
3 sources record it
- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Melantias: Outside the city walls of Constantinople, Belisarius defeats the combined "barbarians" with his veteran cavalry (bucellarii)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Melantias Muharebesi: Konstantinopolis surlarının dışında, Belisarius kıdemli süvarileri (bucellarii) ile birleşik "barbarları" ve alelacele toplanan birkaç…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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