Regional996 CE

Battle of Spercheios

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Greece

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Spercheios (996), part of the Byzantine Wars of Tsar Samuel. Byzantium defeated Bulgaria.

Belligerents2

Byzantine Empire
Bulgaria

ON THE MAPByzantine Empire (843-1204)Bulgarian Empire (First)

Conflict graph

PART OFBulgarian-Byzantine Wars

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Spercheios (996 CE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-spercheios · Sources & methodology