27 ottob 904 anni - Battle of Southern Buh

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Though being defeat by the Magyars at Lower Danube, Simeon just retreat and sent envoys to forge an alliance with the Pechenegs, the eastern neighbours of the Magyars. The fact is, this try gains a succeed, he received assistance from Pechenegs in the 904. Subsequently, while the Pechenegs began to combat the Magyars on their eastern frontier, Simeon and his father Boris I, gathered an enormous army and marched to the north to defend their empire. He ordered three days of fasting, saying that the soldiers should repent for their sins and seek help in God. When this was done, the battle began. It was long and unusually fierce, it is said that the Bulgarians lost 20,000 riders, but in the end the Bulgarians were victorious. The Pechenegs destroyed the Hungarians' dwelling places. Those who survived the double attack left the Pontic steppes and crossed the Carpathians in search of a new pastures.

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