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Siege of Constantinople (813)

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Krum arrived at the city on 17 July 813, and performed a pagan sacrificial ritual involving animals and people in order to impress and force the defenders to surrender. But it was a failure and when Krum saw that the walls were impregnable, he decided to propose peace to the new Byzantine emperor
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Krum spent the winter preparing a major attack on Constantinople, where a rumor reported the creation of multiple artillery pieces carried on five thousand wagons. But Krum died on 13 April 814, and his son
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and captured 50,000 prisoners. The sack of Thrace enriched Krum and his aristocracy, and allowed the use of those architectural elements looted from the cities in the rebuilding of his capital
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DRŠKA, Václav; PICKOVÁ, Dana. Dějiny středověké Evropy. Praha : Nakladatelství Aleš Skřivan ml., 2004. ISBN 80-86493-11-3. page 69.
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Krum proposed a meeting, but the Byzantines had set a trap, and he was wounded by archers but managed to flee.
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was forced to abdicate and become a monk, becoming the third Byzantine emperor removed by Krum since 811.
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succeeded him. The new attack on Constantinople came to nothing and Omurtag signed the
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Furious, Krum ravaged the environs of Constantinople on the way home, then
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and deported its inhabitants (including the parents of the future
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Krum
Constantinople
Byzantine Empire
First Bulgarian Empire
Byzantine Empire
Krum
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Leo V
Bulgarian
Krum
Bulgarian
Bulgarian-Byzantine wars
Battle of Versinikia
Michael I Rangabe
Leo V the Armenian
took Adrianople
Basil I
Thrace
Arcadiopolis
Pliska
Omurtag
Byzantine–Bulgarian treaty of 815
The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century by John Van Antwerp Fine Jr. Page 98-99
Categories
813
810s conflicts
810s in the Byzantine Empire
9th century in Bulgaria
Battles involving the First Bulgarian Empire

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