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The Byzantine army was the primary military body of the Byzantine armed forces, serving alongside the Byzantine navy. A direct continuation of the Eastern Roman army , shaping and developing itself on the legacy of the late Hellenistic armies , [ 1 ] it maintained a similar level of discipline, strategic prowess and organization.
Rus'–Byzantine War (1024) Kievan Rus' Byzantine Empire: Byzantine victory: 1043 Rus'–Byzantine War (1043) Kievan Rus' Byzantine Empire: Byzantine victory: 1044-1045 Crimean campaign of Yaroslav the Wise: Kievan Rus' Byzantine Empire: Rus' victory. Rus' occupies Chersonesos, which forces Byzantium to make concessions [5] 1116-1123 Rus ...
The bulk of the army were mounted archers, [8] who included Boyars, landed gentry ("Boyars' children") and armed slaves. [ citation needed ] Under Tatar influence, the mail and lamellar armour of Kievan Rus' was replaced with brigandine ("Kuyak") , mail and plate ("Behterets") and mirror armour ("Zertsalo") , [ 9 ] while poor noblemen and armed ...
Despite recurrent military conflicts, the relations between the Rus' and Byzantium seem to have been predominantly peaceful. The First Christianization of the Rus' was reported by Patriarch Photius in the 860s. In one of his letters, Patriarch Nicholas Mysticus threatened to unleash a Rus' invasion of Bulgaria. Historians infer from his account ...
In the 10th century military treatise attributed to Emperor Nikephoros II, On Skirmishing, it is stated that the cavalry army of any mobile army commanded by the emperor must be of at least 8,200 riders, not including 1,000 household cavalry—that is, the force belonging personally to the Emperor. These 8,200 horse ought to be divided "into 24 ...
The only source for the conflict is the history of John Skylitzes.According to Skylitzes, in 1024 a Rus' leader named Chrysocheir assembled 800 men and sailed to Constantinople, aiming to enlist in the Varangian Guard of Emperor Basil II (r. 976–1025).
The siege of Constantinople in 860 was the only major military expedition of the Rus' people (Medieval Greek: Ῥῶς) recorded in Byzantine and western European sources. The casus belli was the construction of the fortress Sarkel by Byzantine engineers, restricting the Rus' trade route along the Don River in favour of the Khazars.
They were in Byzantine service from as early as 874. The Guard was first formally constituted under Emperor Basil II in 988, following the Christianization of Kievan Rus' by Vladimir I of Kiev. Vladimir, who had recently usurped power in Kiev with an army of Varangian warriors, sent 6,000 men to Basil as part of a military assistance agreement.