The Battle of Versinikia (Bulgarian: Битката при Версиникия; Greek: Μάχη της Βερσινικίας) was fought in 813 between the Byzantine Empire and the Bulgarian...

eventually becoming the strategos of the Anatolic Theme. Taking advantage of Michael's defeat at the Battle of Versinikia, he forced the emperor to abdicate...

which was the dominant calendar of the time. June 22 – Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars, led by Krum, ruler (khan) of the Bulgarian Empire, defeat Emperor...

sovereign in 31 BC, after defeating his last remaining opposition at the Battle of Actium. This is a date also used by some writers. Augustus himself dated...

of the imperial couple. On 22 June 813, Michael's forces lost the Battle of Versinikia. The imperial army was significantly larger than the Bulgarian but...

victory. Krum led his army south towards Adrianople and pitched camp near Versinikia. Michael I lined up his army against the Bulgarians, but neither side...

Byzantine-Bulgarian battle of Vărbitsa Pass (Battle of Pliska) 813 Byzantine-Bulgarian battle of Versinikia 830s Paphlagonian expedition of the Rus' 839–1330...

In several battles the Bulgarian troops waited the Byzantines for days until the latter attack — for instance at Marcelae (792) or Versinikia (813) – and...

the city during the Bulgarian-Byzantine wars. After the Battle of Versinikia (or Second Battle of Adrianople) on 22 June 813, which was a defeat for the...

successor of Nikephoros I, was likely the boy's godfather. At the head of a military revolt following the disastrous Battle of Versinikia against the...