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The Battle of Mesambria was a battle between the Byzantines and the Bulgarians during the war of Khan Krum. In this battle, during the night attack, the...

of the battle. The Byzantines were completely routed. Leo Phocas was saved by fleeing to Mesembria (modern Nesebar) in Bulgaria, but in the thick of the...

Bulgar cavalry. Many of the Byzantine soldiers perished. According to popular belief, the emperor had leg pain and went to Mesembria to seek treatment....

large quantity of gold and silver. Despite the loss of Mesembria, the Byzantines refused to agree to a settlement. During the winter of 812–813 Khan Krum...

Michael rejected the peace terms offered by Krum and provoked the capture of Mesembria (Nesebar) by the Bulgarians. After initial success in spring 813, Michael's...

her husband was killed in battle with the Ottoman Turks near Sofia. Irene decide to stay a nun in the monastery in Mesembria (today Nesebar) and take the...

Leo V the Armenian defeated the Bulgars at Mesembria and secured a 30-year peace. 827–902: Muslim conquest of Sicily. 830–841: War with the Abbasids, with...

Pyrgitsion, Diampol, Ktenia, Debelt, Rusokastro, Lardea, Markeli, Aytos, Mesembria, Anchialos, Pyrgos, Apolonia and Ahtopol, all along the southern Black...

strip of land to the north of Constantinople that extended from the town of Mesembria in the north to Derkos in the south. It also included the port of Selymbria...

annexes Levantine Plain 650 The Pontic Pentapolis: Apollonia, Callatis, Mesembria (Nessebar), Odessos (Varna), and Tomis (Constanța), all on the Euxeinos...

to Mesembria. Decades later, Leo the Deacon would write that "piles of bones can still be seen today at the river Acheloos, where the fleeing army of the...

clause for exchange of deserters. To apply more pressure on the emperor, Krum besieged and captured Mesembria (Nesebar) in the fall of 812. In February 813...

environs of Mesembria (Nesebar) and the two states concluded a 30-year peace in 815. According to some sources, Krum participated in the battle and abandoned...

more pressure on the Emperor, Krum besieged and captured Mesembria (Nesebar) in the autumn of 812. In February 813 the Bulgarians raided Thrace but were...

Asenovgrad and Plovdiv in Bulgaria) in the autumn of 1262. Mitso was also forced to flee to Mesembria (now Nesebar in Bulgaria). After Konstantine laid...

Siege of Mesembria (812) – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars Siege of Adrianople (813) – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars Siege of Constantinople (821–822) Siege of Arkadiopolis...

between the two Empires, but they also quarreled over the Black Sea ports of Mesembria and Anchialos. Bulgaria successfully defended them in 1364, but the continuing...

no enemy could gain knowledge of it in its entirety. This accounts for the fact that when the Bulgarians took Mesembria and Debeltos in 814, they captured...

the siege of Mesembria, the Bulgarians captured 36 copper siphons which the Byzantines used to throw the famous Greek fire. A wide range of siege equipment...

captured from defeated Byzantine Emperors in former victories. Reaching Mesembria (Nesebar), the imperial couple sailed for Constantinople, where the enraged...