Geografia campaniilor militare ruse împotriva Imperiului Bizantin (882‐1043)
Geography of Russian military campaigns against the Byzantine Empire (882-1043)

Summary/Abstract: This article present a study about the military campaigns between Kievean Rus and Byzantine Empire. The majority of all conflicts were on the sea. With the help of the Byzantine innovation called greek fire, the Byzantine armies smash almost everytime the Russian attacks on the sea. The historic sources for the study are from both sides: for Russian side we have The Primary Chronicle, also known as Nestor's Chronicle (Old Church Slavonic: Повѣсть времяньныхъ лѣтъ; Belarusian: Аповесьць мінулых часоў; Russian: По́весть временны́х лет; Ukrainian: Пóвість врем'яних літ, often translated into English as Tale of Bygone Years), Ruthenian Primary Chronicle or Russian Primary Chronicle, which is a history of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110, originally compiled in Kiev about 1113 by a monk called Nestor. The book contain two manuscripts: Laurentian codex and Hypatian codex. For Byzantines we have chronicles writted by John the Deacon (Iohannes Diaconus), Leo Grammaticus or Symeon Logothetes.

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