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Name: Bulgarian Empire (Kievan Rus' Client)

Type: Polity

Start: 969 AD

End: 971 AD

Nation: bulgaria

Parent: kievan rus

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Sviatoslav I of the Kievan Rus' invaded Bulgaria, that became a client state of the Rus' for a brief period.

Establishment


  • September 969: In summer 969, Sviatoslav of Kiev returned to Bulgaria in force, accompanied by allied Pecheneg and Magyar contingents. Sviatoslav stormed the city. Thereafter Boris and Roman capitulated, and the Rus' rapidly established control over eastern and northern Bulgaria, placing garrisons in Dorostolon and the Bulgarian capital of Preslav.
  • Chronology


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    1. Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars


    Were a series of conflicts fought between the Byzantines and Bulgarians which began when the Bulgars first settled in the Balkan peninsula in the 5th century, and intensified with the expansion of the Bulgarian Empire to the southwest after 680 AD.

    1.1.Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria

    Was the invasion of the Bulgarian Empire by the Kievan Rus'.

  • September 971: Byzantine Emperor John I Tzimiskes and Sviatoslav I of Kiev agreed to a peace treaty: The Rus' army left the occupied territories, and their trading rights were re-affirmed in exchange for an oath to never again attack imperial territory.

  • 1.1.1.Kievan Offensive

    Was a military campaign by the invading Kievan Rus' in the Bulgarian Empire.

  • April 970: In early 970, a Rus' army led by Sviatoslav I of Kiev, with Bulgarians, Pechenegs, and Magyars, attacked Philippopolis (Plovdiv) in the Byzantine Empire. The city fell to the invaders, marking a significant victory for the Kievan Rus'.

  • 1.1.2.Byzantine offensive

    Was a military campaign by the invading Byzantine Empire in the Bulgarian Empire.

  • April 971: Preslav was stormed on 13 April.

  • Disestablishment


  • April 971: Preslav was stormed on 13 April.
  • September 971: Byzantine Emperor John I Tzimiskes and Sviatoslav I of Kiev agreed to a peace treaty: The Rus' army left the occupied territories, and their trading rights were re-affirmed in exchange for an oath to never again attack imperial territory.
  • Selected Sources


  • Haldon, John F. (2001), The Byzantine Wars, Stroud: Tempus, p.104
  • Stephenson, Paul (2000), Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900–1204, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, p.53
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