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Battle of Chersonesus |
year: 447 end 447 |
| Short siege of Constantinople by the Huns who later won a victory in Gallipoli | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ |
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enemy: Huns
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location: Peninsula of Gallipoli In eastern Thrace, Turkey
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battle type: Pitched Battle |
war: Hun Invasions |
modern country:
Turkey |
| ▼ The Byzantines(emperor: Theodosius II) | ▼ The Enemies | |
| Commander: | Aspar the Alan | Attila the Hun |
| Forces: | Unknown | Unknown |
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| Background story: |
| Attila invaded the Balkans again in 447 and scored a bloody victory in Utus. Then he moved south. Constantinople was in imminent danger, as its walls had been ruined during an earthquake in January 447. The Byzantines however managed to repair the walls in just two months by mobilizing the city's population, with the help of the Circus factions. |
The Battle: |
 Attila the Hun Attila pursued a Byzantine army to Chersonesus, at the Gallipoli Peninsula on the European side of the Dardanelles. Aspar suffered a defeat and the cities of Sestus and Kallipoli were sacked. Theodosius admitted the defeat and sent the court official Anatolius to negotiate peace terms, which were harsher than the previous treaty. It was believed that this incident had happened in 443. However, we know now that the battle took place in the year of the great earthquake, which was 447. |
Aftermath: |
| The peace was restored and the Huns left Thrace. The emperor agreed to pay over 6,000 Roman pounds of gold; the yearly tribute was tripled, rising to 2,100 Roman pounds. Moreover, a vast no-man's land in the Roman territory was created south of Danube. The Huns then turned to the West. |
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