The Byzantines End Rus Dreams of Supremacy
Years of war had collapsed the Bulgarian state and Sviatoslav seemed poised to absorb the region. Sviatoslav’s domains briefly stretched from the Adriatic to the Caspian, a juggernaut was forming across Eastern Europe. Emperor John Tzimiskes, responding to Rus attacks & threats, led the Byzantine military in a lightning campaign to neutralize this emerg…
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