The Battle of the Gates of Trajan (Bulgarian: Битка край Траянови врати, Medieval Greek: Μάχη στις Πύλες του Τραϊανού) was a battle between Byzantine...
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The Gate of Trajan or Trajan's Gate (Bulgarian: Траянови врата, romanized: Trayanovi vrata) is a historic mountain pass near Ihtiman, Bulgaria. In antiquity...
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986 the Bulgarian Emperor Samuel dealt a crushing defeat on the Byzantines in the battle of the Gates of Trajan. Following the Ottoman conquest of Bulgaria...
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starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. August 17 – Battle of the Gates of Trajan: Emperor Basil II leads a Byzantine...
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defeating the Dacian army at Tapae (see Second Battle of Tapae), near the Iron Gates of Transylvania. It was not a decisive victory, however. Trajan's troops...
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Medieval Bulgarian army (redirect from Medieval Battles of the Bulgarian Army)
the battle of the Gates of Trajan in 986 in which Basil II himself barely escaped. In the following decade the Bulgarians took Thessaly, destroyed the Principality...
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First Bulgarian Empire (redirect from History of the First Bulgarian Empire)
managed to turn the fortunes to the Bulgarians. The new Byzantine Emperor Basil II was decisively defeated in the Battle of the Gates of Trajan in 986 and...
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The following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but...
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August 17 (redirect from 17th of August)
by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily. 682 – Pope Leo II begins his pontificate. 986 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of the Gates of Trajan: The Bulgarians...
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contains a biography of the then-reigning Byzantine emperor, Basil II. After the success of the Bulgarians in the Battle of the Gates of Trajan in 986, Byzantium...
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