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Battle of Sirmium

Name: Battle of Sirmium
Location: Sirmium, Serbia

Battle of Sirmium was a battle fought in 1167 at Sirmium, in what is now Serbia. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Sirmium. It was part of the Byzantine–Hungarian War, which ran from 1163 to 1167. The recorded result: Byzantine victory. Recorded strength: 15,000 against 15,000.

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Fought1167

WhereSirmium, Serbia44.966N, 19.611E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeByzantine victory

BelligerentsByzantine Empire; Grand Principality of Serbia, as a Byzantine vassal stateagainstKingdom of Hungary

Casualties and lossesUnknownand800 captured; thousands killed

Part ofByzantine–Hungarian War1163 to 1167

Record

Date	1167 (year precision)
Place	Sirmium, Serbia 44.966N, 19.611E
Kind	Battle, medieval
Territorial change	Byzantine control of the western Balkans.
Strength	15,000	15,000
Casualties and losses	Unknown	800 captured; thousands killed
Commanders	Andronikos Kontostephanos Andronikos Lapardas	Denis, Palatine of Hungary Bač, Serbia

Placed at Sirmium; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Siege of Sirmium AD 568, 1.2 km N
Siege of Sirmium AD 580, 1.5 km N
Siege of Šabac 1521, 24 km S
Battle of Mišar 1806, 29 km SE
Battle of Karlóca 1848, 35 km NE

Elsewhere in 1167

Battle of Sirmium is one of 459 engagements of the 12th century in the atlas and one of 115 in present-day Serbia.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q172368, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Sirmium, revision 1381453995, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.