Battle of Dyrrhachium (1018)

Battle of Dyrrhachium
	Part of the Byzantine–Bulgarian wars
Date	February, 1018
Location	near Dyrrhachium, modern Albania
Result	Byzantine victory The Byzantine Bulgarian war is over;
Belligerents
First Bulgarian Empire	Byzantine Empire
Commanders and leaders
Emperor Ivan †	Nicetas Pegonites
Strength
Unknown	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown

The Battle of Dyrrhachium in February 1018 was a part of the Byzantine–Bulgarian wars. It happened as the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Vladislav tried to establish his power on the southeastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. He led an army against Dyrrhachium (present-day Durrës, in Albania) and besieged it, but was killed during a counterattack of the city’s defenders.

This was the final battle of the centuries long struggle between the First Bulgarian Empire and Byzantium. Within months after Vladislav’s death most of his realm was subjugated by the Byzantine emperor Basil II, with the last independent region (Sirmium) subdued in 1019.^[1]

^ Runciman, Steven: A history of the First Bulgarian Empire, G. Bell & Sons, London 1930, p. 252

[1] Runciman, Steven: A history of the First Bulgarian Empire, G. Bell & Sons, London 1930, p. 252

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