The battle of Arcadiopolis (Bulgarian: Битkа при Аркадиопол) occurred in 1194 near the contemporary town of Lule Burgas in Turkey between the Bulgarian Empire and Byzantine Empires. The Bulgarians were victorious.
After the major Bulgarian success in the battle of Tryavna in 1190 their troops launched frequent attacks on Thrace and Macedonia to liberate all Bulgarian lands. The Byzantines could not face the fast Bulgarian cavalry which attacked f...
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The battle of Arcadiopolis (Bulgarian: Битkа при Аркадиопол) occurred in 1194 near the contemporary town of Lule Burgas in Turkey between the Bulgarian Empire and Byzantine Empires. The Bulgarians were victorious.
After the major Bulgarian success in the battle of Tryavna in 1190 their troops launched frequent attacks on Thrace and Macedonia to liberate all Bulgarian lands. The Byzantines could not face the fast Bulgarian cavalry which attacked from different directions on a vast area. Towards 1194 Ivan Asen I had taken the important city of Sofia and the surrounding areas as well as the upper valley of the Struma River from where his armies advanced deep into Macedonia.
To distract his attention the Byzantines decided to strike in eastern direction. They assembled the Eastern army under its commander Alexios Gud and the Western army under its domestikos Basil Vatatsi to stop the dangerous rise of Bulgarian power. Near Arcadiopolis in Eastern Thrace they met the Bulgarian army. After...
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