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Battle of Versinikia
Part of the Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars
Bulgaria under Khan Krum including the most important campaigns and battles
Date
22 June 813
Location
between Malamirovo, Bulgaria and Edirne, Turkey
Result
Bulgarian victory
Abdication of Michael I Rangabe
Belligerents
Bulgarian Empire
Byzantine Empire
Commanders and leaders
Khan Krum
Michael I Rangabe
Strength
6,000–7,000[1] or 12,000[2]
20,000[3]–30,000[2] 30,000–36,000[4]
Casualties and losses
Unknown
2,000–3,000[5]
v
t
e
Byzantine–Bulgarian wars
Early wars
Ongal
1st Anchialus
1st Marcellae
Rishki Pass
2nd Anchialus
Litosoria
2nd Marcellae
Krum's campaigns
Serdica
Pliska
Debeltos
Versinikia
1st Adrianople
Burdizon
Simeon I's campaigns
War of 894–896
Boulgarophygon
War of 913–927
Achelous
Katasyrtai
Pegae
Constantinople
Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria
1st Arcadiopolis
Dorostolon
Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria
Trajan's Gates
1st Thessalonica
Spercheios
Skopje
2nd Thessalonica
Kreta
3rd Thessalonica
Kleidion
Strumitsa
Bitola
Setina
Dyrrhachium
Uprising of Peter Delyan
4th Thessalonica
5th Thessalonica
Ostrovo
Second Bulgarian Empire
Lovech
Tryavna
2nd Arcadiopolis
Serres
Varna
Klokotnitsa
2nd Adrianople
Uprising of Ivaylo
Devina
Skafida
Rusokastro
The Battle of Versinikia (Bulgarian: Битката при Версиникия; Greek: Μάχη της Βερσινικίας) was fought in 813 between the Byzantine Empire and the Bulgarian Empire, near the city of Adrianople (Edirne) in modern-day Turkey.
The Bulgarian army, led by Krum of Bulgaria, had an army about half the size of the Byzantine army. The Bulgarian army was victorious, which lead to the dethroning of Byzantine Emperor Michael I Rangabe (811–813) by Leo V the Armenian. The battle further strengthened the Bulgarian position after their victory over Nicephorus I two years earlier. After the battle they took de facto control of the whole region of Eastern Thrace (until the Byzantine–Bulgarian Treaty of 815) with the exception of a few castles that remained in Byzantine control. For the first time in Bulgarian history, it was possible to march on Constantinople. Krum died at the height of the preparations for the final siege of the Byzantine capital on 13 April 814.
^Panos, p. 37
^ abHaldon 2001, pp. 76–77
^Panos, p. 237
^Hupchick, p. 96
^Hupchick, p. 101
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