Tsar Samuil in Central and Southern Greece Cover Image

Цар Самуил в Централна и Южна Гърция
Tsar Samuil in Central and Southern Greece

Author(s): Momchil Mladenov
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Military history, Political history, Middle Ages, 6th to 12th Centuries
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: late 10th Century; Greece; urban economic; roads; battle of Spercheios (996)

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents some moments of the campaigns of Tsar Samuil in Central and Southern Greece in the late 10th Century. Aattention was paid to the capture of Larissa – an important administrative and economic center. Thus, way Bulgaria controlled important roads in Greece. We present the archaeological evidence of Athens, Thebes and Corinth – centers of commerce and crafts. Greece in the late 10th century began economic upturn. According the author‘s view the battle of Spercheios (996) was a crucial for the war between Bulgaria and Byzantium.

  • Issue Year: XXV/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 432-436
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Bulgarian