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Battle of Pegae |
year: 922March 922 |
| A humiliating defeat of the Byzantines by the Bulgarians | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ |
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enemy: Bulgarians
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location: At the suburb of Balıklı in Constantinople
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battle type: Pitched Battle |
war: Bulgarian Wars |
modern country:
Turkey |
| ▼ The Byzantines(emperor: Romanos I Lekapenos) | ▼ The Enemies | |
| Commander: | Pothos Argyros & Alexios Mosele | Theodore Sigritsa |
| Forces: | Unknown | Unknown |
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| Background story: |
| After his great victories in 917, Tsar Symeon of Bulgaria tried to assume the Byzantine throne. His first step was to become a regent of the juvenile Emperor Constantine VII, but in 919 admiral Romanos Lekapenos, who was trying to prevent the Bulgarian influence in Byzantium, replaced the young Emperor's mother Zoe as regent and by 920 he proclaimed himself co-Emperor which ruined Symeon's ambitions to ascend the throne by diplomatic means. In 920 the Bulgarian Emperor waged a war and a took almost all Byzantine possessions on the Balkans between 920-924. |
The Battle: |
 Symeon I of Bylgaria Romanos sent troops under the Domestic of the Schools Pothos Argyros and the admiral Alexios Mosele to face the Bulgarians. The battle took place at Pegae, a suburb of Constantinople where the summer palace was. The initial Bulgarian attack was irresistible, and the Byzantine commanders were the first to flee, with Mosele drowning in a desperate attempt to reach a ship. Most of the Byzantine soldiers and sailors were killed, drowned, or captured. |
Aftermath: |
| After the battle the Bulgarians burned the palaces in Pegae, looted the Golden Horn, and triumphantly returned to Preslav. A peace treaty was agreed in 924. |
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