Atlas of Battles

commander, 9 engagements

Battles of Basil II

Battles of Basil II

Byzantine Emperor from the Macedonian dynasty, AD 958 to 1025

Basil II is recorded as a commander at 9 placed engagements in the atlas between AD 986 and 1022: 7 battles and 2 sieges across 6 present-day countries, most in Bulgaria (2), Greece (2), Turkey (2). Taken in date order, the sites lie 7,197 km apart end to end, 900 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria (3), Arab–Byzantine wars (2), Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars (2).

Siege of AleppoSiege of TripoliBattle of KretaBattle of ShirimniBattle of the Gates of TrajanBattle of SkopjeBattle of KleidionBattle of SetinaBattle of SvindaxBattle of the Gates of TrajanBattle of SkopjeBattle of KleidionBattle of SetinaBattle of SvindaxBaghdadAthensAlexandriaAnkaraTel AvivAleppoDamascusNaplesTripoliBucharest1000 km37.622N, 28.210E
9 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

AD 986: 1 engagements1 in AD 986AD 994: 1 engagements1 in AD 994AD 999: 1 engagements1 in AD 9991004: 1 engagements1 in 10041009: 1 engagements1 in 10091014: 1 engagements1 in 10141017: 1 engagements1 in 10171021: 1 engagements1 in 10211022: 1 engagements1 in 1022AD 9861022
9 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of the Gates of Trajan, AD 986Siege of Aleppo, AD 994Siege of Tripoli, AD 999Battle of Skopje, 1004Battle of Kreta, 1009Battle of Kleidion, 1014Battle of Setina, 1017Battle of Shirimni, 1021Battle of Svindax, 1022AD 9861022
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 4

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
17 August AD 986Battle of the Gates of TrajanGate of Trajan, BulgariaBulgarian victory
AD 994Siege of AleppoAleppo, Syria1,327 km SEByzantine–Hamdanid victory
AD 999Siege of TripoliTripoli, Libya2,220 km WFatimid victory
1004Battle of SkopjeSkopje, North Macedonia1,246 km NEByzantine victory
1009Battle of KretaThessaloniki, Greece196 km SEByzantine victory
29 July 1014Battle of KleidionBelasica, Bulgaria81 km NByzantine victory
1017Battle of SetinaSkopos, Greece130 km SWByzantine victory
11 September 1021Battle of ShirimniLake Çıldır, Turkey1,811 km EByzantine victory
1022Battle of SvindaxPhasiane, Turkey186 km SWByzantine victory; Treaty of 1022

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, from the Middle Ages, unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.