The battle of Bitola (Bulgarian: Битка при Битоля) took place near the town of Bitola, in Bulgarian territory, between a Bulgarian army under the command of the voivoda Ivats and a Byzantine army led by the strategos George Gonitsiates. It was one of the last open battles between the First Bulgarian Empire and the Byzantine Empire. The Bulgarians were victorious and the Byzantine Emperor Basil II had to retreat from the Bulgarian capital Ohrid, w...
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Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars
The Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars were a series of conflicts fought between the Byzantines and Bulgarians that began when the Bulgars first settled in the Balkan peninsula in the 5th century and intensified with the expansion of the Bulgarian Empire to the southwest after 680 AD. The Byzantines and...
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