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Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria

968–971 · 10th century

Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria was the campaign of 968–971 in which Sviatoslav I of Kiev, first invited by the Byzantines, conquered much of the First Bulgarian Empire and settled at Pereyaslavets on the Danube. The Byzantine emperor John I Tzimiskes then drove him out, besieging him at Dorostolon in 971; Sviatoslav was killed by the Pechenegs on his way home in 972.

Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria
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