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Rus'–Byzantine War (907) Kievan Rus' Byzantine Empire: Rus' victory. Byzantium pays a huge contribution; 941-944 Rus'–Byzantine War (941) Kievan Rus' Byzantine Empire: Byzantine military victory . Rus' political victory (Byzantium pays off during the second campaign and concludes a peace treaty) 970-971 Rus'–Byzantine War (970–971 ...
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.
602–628: Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628: last Roman/Byzantine–Persian/Sasanian war. 626: Avar–Sasanian siege of Constantinople. [1] 633–642: Beginning of the early Muslim conquests. The Rashidun Caliphate conquered Syria (634–638) and Egypt (639–642). 645–656: Renewed war with the Caliphate, loss of Cyprus and most of Armenia.
The final Rus'–Byzantine War was, in essence, an unsuccessful naval raid against Constantinople instigated by Yaroslav the Wise and led by his eldest son, Vladimir of Novgorod, in 1043. The reasons for the war are disputed, as is its course.
By 965/966, the warlike new Byzantine emperor Nikephoros II Phokas refused to renew the annual tribute that was part of the peace agreement and declared war on Bulgaria. Preoccupied with his campaigns in the East, Nikephoros resolved to fight the war by proxy and invited the Rus' ruler Sviatoslav to invade Bulgaria.
The chronicle describes these groups as pagan, and the "Greeks" (that is Byzantines) referred to these tribes as "Great Scythia". We are told that, at first, Byzantine envoys attempted to poison Oleg before he could approach Constantinople. The Rus' leader, renowned for his oracular powers, refused to drink from the poisoned cup.
860 Rus'–Byzantine War (860) 865–878 Invasion of the Great Heathen Army; 880–1380 Bulgarian–Hungarian wars. 896 Battle of Southern Buh; 894–896 Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 894–896; 902–911 Muslim conquest of Majorca; 907 Rus'–Byzantine War (907) 913–927 Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927. 917 Battle of Achelous; 914 Arab ...
1354 – Fall of Gallipoli – Capture of Gallipoli by the Ottomans, first Ottoman stronghold in Europe 1366 – Reconquest of Gallipoli – Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy , recovers Gallipoli for the Byzantines