Greetings all,
Today we celebrate Byzantine victory in the battle of Levounion on April 29 in 1091 AD::
The battle was fought between the forces of Emperor
Alexios I and the Pechenegs (a Turkish
tribe allied to the Ottomans) 20 years after the disastrous Battle of
Manzikert. The forces of the Empire and their allies caught the
Pencheneg forces by surprise and the battle was almost a massacre.
Surviving Pechenegs were later settled into depopulated areas of the
Empire, and became part of the Empire.
-Marcus Cassius Julianus
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