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Byzantine–Hungarian War
15th-century depiction of the war in Johannes de Thurocz's Chronica Hungarorum
Date 1071–1072 Location Byzantine–Hungarian border along the Lower Danube and Sava, Byzantine themes Sirmium and Bulgaria Result Hungarian victory Territorial changes Hungary seizes Belgrade and Syrmia
Belligerents
Kingdom of Hungary	Byzantine Empire Pechenegs
Commanders and leaders
King Solomon Duke Géza Duke Ladislaus Vid Gutkeled Jan	Duke Nicetas (POW) Kazar
Units involved
Units from Bács and Sopron counties	Bulgarians, Saracens

The Byzantine–Hungarian War (1071–1072) was the first of the series of wars between the Byzantine Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary. When Pechenegs crossed the Sava and stormed into Hungary, Solomon, King of Hungary and Duke Géza suspected that the soldiers of the Byzantine garrison at Belgrade incited the marauders against the kingdom. The Hungarians laid siege to Belgrade. In the next year, their army reached as far as Niš, taking advantage of the difficult political situation within the Byzantine Empire. Division of the war-booty caused a new conflict between Solomon and his cousins, Géza and Ladislaus, which made further war against the empire impossible.

Sources

Primary sources

• Michael Attaleiates, The History, trans. Anthony Kaldellis & Dimitris Krallis, (Cambridge/Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012).
• Bak, János M.; Veszprémy, László; Kersken, Norbert (2018). Chronica de gestis Hungarorum e codice picto saec. XIV [The Illuminated Chronicle: Chronicle of the deeds of the Hungarians from the fourteenth-century illuminated codex]. Budapest: Central European University Press. ISBN 978-9-6338-6264-3.

Secondary sources

• B. Szabó, János (2013). Háborúban Bizánccal. Magyarország és a Balkán a 11–12. században [War with the Byzantium. Hungary and the Balkans in the 11–12th Century] (in Hungarian). Corvina. ISBN 978-963-13-6150-6.
• Curta, Florin (2006). Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1250. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-89452-4.
• Fine, John Van Antwerp Jr. (1991). The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century. Michigan: The University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-08149-7.
• Kovács, Attila (2017). "1071: besenyők, magyarok, bizánciak [1071: Pechenegs, Hungarians, Byzantines]". Acta Universitatis Szegediensis. Acta Historica (in Hungarian). 139. MTA-SZTE-MOL Magyar Medievisztikai Kutatócsoport: 45–53. ISSN 0324-6965.
• Makk, Ferenc (1987). "Megjegyzések Salamon és I. Géza történetéhez [Remarks to the History of Solomon and Géza I]". Acta Universitatis Szegediensis. Acta Historica (in Hungarian). 84. MTA-SZTE-MOL Magyar Medievisztikai Kutatócsoport: 31–44. ISSN 0324-6965.
• Makk, Ferenc; Thoroczkay, Gábor (2006). Írott források az 1050–1116 közötti magyar történelemről [Written Sources of the Hungarian History between 1050 and 1116] (in Hungarian). Szegedi Középkorász Műhely. ISBN 978-963-482-794-8.
• Stephenson, Paul (2000). Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900–1204. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-77017-0.
• Treadgold, Warren (1997). A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2630-2.

Category:1071 in Europe Category:1072 in Europe Category:1070s in the Byzantine Empire Category:11th century in Hungary Category:11th century in Serbia Category:11th century in Bulgaria Category:Wars involving Hungary Category:Wars involving the Byzantine Empire Category:1070s conflicts