List of Bulgarian-Byzantine battles

This page deals with the most important battles during the many Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars that took place over several centuries. The existence of the Bulgarian Empire ( first 681-1018; second 1187-1396) is used as a limitation .

First Bulgarian Empire

• Battle of Ongala , summer 680. Khan Asparuch against Emperor Constantine IV.
• first battle of Anchialus , 708. Khan Terwel against Emperor Justinian II.
• Battle of Burdizon (later renamed Bulgarophygon) 756. Khan Kormisosch against Emperor Constantine V.
• first battle of Marcelae 756, Khan Winech against Emperor Constantine V.
• Battle of the Rishki pass , 759. Khan Winech against Emperor Constantine V.
• Second Battle of Anchialus 763. Khan Telez against Emperor Constantine V.
• Battle of Berzitia , October 774. Khan Telerig against Emperor Constantine V.
• second battle of Marcellae , 792. Khan Kardam against Emperor Constantine VI.
• Battle of Serdica 809. Khan Krum against Garrison of Serdica
• Battle of the Warbiza Pass , July 26, 811. Khan Krum against Emperor Nikephorus I †
• Battle of Adrianople (813) , June 22, 813. Khan Krum against Emperor Michael I.
• Battle of Bulgarophygon , 896. Tsar Simeon I against Emperor (-)
• Third Battle of Anchialus , August 20, 917, Tsar Simeon I against Emperor Constantine VII and Leo Fokas
• Battle of Katasyrtai , 917. Tsar Simeon I against Leo Fokas
• Battle of Pigae , March 11, 922. Kawkhan Theodore Sigritsa against Potas Argirus and Alexios Musele
• Battle of Arkadiopolis (970) , 970. Svyatoslav I against Bardas Scleros
• Battle of Trajanowi wrata , July 16, 986. Tsar Samuil against Basil II.
• first battle of Thessaloniki , 996. Tsar Samuil against Gregory Taronites † and Ashot Taronites
• Battle of Spercheios , 996. Tsar Samuil and Gawril Radomir against Nikephoros Ouranos
• Battle of Skopje , 1004th Tsar Samuil against Emperor Basil II.
• Battle of Crete near Thessaloniki, 1009. Tsar Samuil against Emperor Basil II.
• second battle of Thessaloniki , 1014. Nestoritsa against Theophylactus Botaniates
• Battle of Kleidion , July 29, 1014. Tsar Samuil against Emperor Basil II.
• Battle of Strumitza , August 1014. Tsar Gawril Radomir against Theophylactus Botaniates †
• Battle of Bitola , 1015. Tsar Ivan Wladislaw against George Gonitsiates and Orestes

Restoration attempts

• third battle of Thessaloniki I (1040) , 1040. Tsar Peter II against Emperor Michael IV.
• fourth battle of Thessaloniki II (1040) , 1040. Tsar Peter II and Alusian against (-)
• Battle of Ostrowo , 1041. Tsar Peter II against Emperor Michael IV.

Second Bulgarian Empire

• Battle of Lovetsch , 1187. Emperor Isaak II. Angelus against the Assenides
• Battle of Trjawna , 1190. Tsar Ivan Assen I against Emperor Isaac II Angelus
• Battle of Arkadiopolis (1194) , 1194. Tsar Ivan Assen I against Alexios Gid and Basil Vatatsi †
• Battle of Serres , 1196. Tsar Ivan Assen I against (-)
• Battle of Adrianople (1205) , April 14, 1205. Tsar Kaloyan against Baldwin I.
• Battle of Roussillon (1206) , Tsar Kalojan against (-)
• Battle of Klokotnitsa on March 9, 1230. Ivan Assen II against Emperor Theodoros I Angelos
• Battle of Adrianople (1254) , 1254. Tsar Michael II. Assen against Theodor II. Laskaris
• Battle of Devnja , July 17, 1279, Tsar Ivajlo against (-)
• Battle of Skafida , 1304. Tsar Todor Swetoslaw against Emperor Michael IX. Palaiologos
• Battle of Rusokastro , July 18, 1332. Tsar Ivan Alexander against Emperor Andronikos III.