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unusual facts about Byzantine army



Story of the Warrior and the Captive

The narrator first tells the story of Droctulft, a barbarian who, according to the historical writings of Paul the Deacon, abandoned the barbarian Lombards to join the Byzantine Army and defend the city of Ravenna.

Vatatzes

In 1047, a John Vatatzes joined the revolt of Leo Tornikios, but in the 12th century they rose to high offices: Theodore Vatatzes was named despotes by Emperor Manuel I, and his son John Komnenos Vatatzes became megas domestikos (commander-in-chief of the Byzantine army).


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Andronikos Kontostephanos

The Byzantine army met the Hungarians in a pitched battle on the 8th of July near the fortified city of Zemun.

Bagratid Armenia

When a Byzantine army led by the Byzantine emperor John I Tzimiskes entered Taron in 973, purportedly to avenge the death of his Domestic killed at the hands of the Arabs in Mosul, Ashot mobilized an 80,000 man army to meet and force its withdrawal.

Battle of Haram

The Byzantine army must have been very disciplined and well supported by archers and bolt-firing artillery on the imperial ships.

Battle of Montepeloso

The Byzantines, led by Exaugustus Boioannes, were forced into battle by the rebels, and after a day-long fight the rebels defeated the Byzantine army and captured Boioannes.

Ben Arous

This battle was the beginning, of the end of the domination by the Byzantine Army General Belisarius, on September 13, 523 AD.

Godas

Godas' revolt proved fatal to the Vandal kingdom; for while Tzazo was away with the bulk of the Vandal forces, a Byzantine army commanded by Belisarius landed unopposed near Caputvada with the intention of restoring North Africa to the Byzantine Empire.

Michael Maurex

In 1066, according to the Breve chronicon Northmannicum, Maurex (Mambrica/Mambrita) commanded a fleet that stopped an attempted invasion of the Balkans by Count Geoffrey of Taranto, and in the next year, at the head of a Byzantine army he landed in Apulia and took Bari, Taranto and Castellaneta from the Normans.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bari-Bitonto

In 841, however, the Byzantine army reconquered Bari, and in 844 Saint Angelarius, Bishop of Canosa, then in ruins, brought to Bari the relics of Saint Rufinus, Saint Memorus, and Saint Sabinus, which he had rescued from the ruins.

Siege of Lovech

In the late autumn of 1186, the Byzantine army marched northwards through Sredets (Sofia).