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Attack on Thessalonica |
year: 1014July 1014 |
| A failed Bulgarian attempt to attack Thessaloniki | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ |
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enemy: Bulgarians
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location: Modern Thessaloniki, Northern Greece
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battle type: Surprise Attack |
war: Conquest of Bulgaria |
modern country:
Greece |
| ▼ The Byzantines(emperor: Basil II Bulgaroktonos) | ▼ The Enemies | |
| Commander: | Theophylactos Botaneiates | Nestoritsa |
| Forces: | Unknown | Unknown |
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| Background story: |
| In the summer of 1014, the Byzantine Emperor Basil II launched his annual campaign against Bulgaria. From Western Thrace via Serres he reached the valley of the Strymon river where his troops were halted in Kleidion by a thick palisade guarded by an army under the command of Tsar Samouil.To divert the attention of the enemy the Bulgarian leader sent a large force under his general Nestoritsa to the south to attack the second largest city of the Byzantine Empire, Thessaloniki. |
The Battle: |
 The Bulgars flee, in the Skylitzes manuscriot |
Aftermath: |
| Later in that summer, Botaneiates was defeated in the gorges to the south of Strumitsa and was killed there by Samouil's son Gavril Radomir. Nestoritsa, who survived the defeat, surrendered to Basil II four years later, in 1018. |
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