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.