>Leo III made a plea to Tervel for help, relying on the treaty of 716 and Tervel agreed. The first clash between the Bulgarians and the Arabs ended with a Bulgarian victory. During the very first stages of the siege the Bulgarians appeared in the Muslim rear and large part of their army was destroyed and the rest were trapped. The Arabs built two trenches around their camp facing the Bulgarian army and the walls of the city. They persisted with the siege despite the severe winter with 100 days of snowfall. In the spring, the Byzantine navy destroyed the Arab fleets that had arrived with new provisions and equipment, while a Byzantine army defeated Arab reinforcements in Bithynia. Finally, in early summer the Arabs engaged the Bulgarians in battle but suffered a crushing defeat. According to Theophanes the Confessor, the Bulgarians slaughtered some 22,000 Arabs in the battle. Shortly after, the Arabs raised the siege. The Byzantine-Bulgarian victory of 718 and the victory of the Frankish king Charles Martel in the battle of Tours (732) stopped the Muslim advance in the interior of Europe.
Reminder that Bulgaria is the reason Europe is still white.
odeve edno pedalche se praveshe na golema rabota i mi dade uj negoviq nomer obache vdigna nekav drug pich
trebvashe da go zapisha dbi
Josiah Wilson
> Calling the Balkans irrelevant > 8th century Constantinople has more Christian population than Spain and nobody really cared about a bunch of shithole Vestgothic barbaric kingdoms.
Modern day Spain has legalised gay marriages etc. which means you fucking deserve to be nuked, fucking fag
Cooper Taylor
Doesn't Bulgaria have that hot competitive runner
Post south slav QTs plz
Austin Jones
>Reminder that Bulgaria is the reason Europe is still white. So you saved Europe from turning brown but you couldn't save yourself
>implying the naval combat wasn't more responsible for the Byzantine victory There were over 5 times the amount of ships at Constantinople than there were at Lepanto.
yet still owned their own houses, land, farm animals, could start their own businesses
meanwhile the russians were literal serfs who, when they came here to """liberate""" us, noticed that the bulgarians were a lot wealthier and freer than the liberators themselves
it's been thoroughly documented by arthur von hohn
Austin King
Why did Emperor Basil kill Bulgars and gouge their eyes out?
John Collins
cos they saw the truth
Brody Perez
he didn't, that was written 200 years after basil's death during the bulgarian uprising
Thomas Flores
You're leaving out the part where the Byzantines genocide their nobility because they wouldn't fuck off.
Isaiah Kelly
literally what
Bentley Murphy
what the fuck are you talking about you moronic fucking goblin
