John, who keeps an austere court, proves …
Years: 1122 - 1122
John, who keeps an austere court, proves a gifted soldier and diplomat, having reestablished imperial authority in the Balkans by reincorporating Serbia, annihilates the Pecheneg forces in 1122 at the Battle of Beroia, and checks Hungarian expansion.
Constantinople’s victory effectively destroys the Pechenegs as an independent force.
For some time, significant communities of Pechenegs will remain in Hungary, but eventually the Pechenegs will cease to be a distinct people and will be assimilated by neighboring peoples such as the Bulgarians and Magyars.
Locations
People
Groups
- Hungarian people
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Bulgarians (South Slavs)
- Pechenegs, or Patzinaks
- Serbs (South Slavs)
- Hungary, Kingdom of
- Bulgaria, Theme of
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Komnenos dynasty, restored
