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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Skylitzes" class="extiw" title="en:Madrid Skylitzes">Skyllitzes Matritensis</a>, fol. 173r, detail

Miniature:

Text from the Chronicle of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Skylitzes" class="extiw" title="en:John Skylitzes">John Skylitzes</a>: "...When Sviatoslav was making his way back home, as he passed through the land of the Patzinaks, he fell into ambushes already prepared to take him. He and the entire host that accompanied him were completely annihilated, so angry were the Patzinaks with him for having made a treaty with the Romans..." (Translated by John Wortley, in: John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057: Translation and Notes, p. 293)

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current14:52, 4 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 14:52, 4 January 20171,503 × 564 (781 KB)127.0.0.1 (talk)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Skylitzes" class="extiw" title="en:Madrid Skylitzes">Skyllitzes Matritensis</a>, fol. 173r, detail <p>Miniature: </p> <ul><li> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pechenegs" class="extiw" title="en:Pechenegs">pechenegs</a> slaughter the "skyths" of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sviatoslav_I_of_Kiev" class="extiw" title="en:Sviatoslav I of Kiev">Sviatoslav I of Kiev</a> </li></ul> <dl><dd>Text from the Chronicle of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Skylitzes" class="extiw" title="en:John Skylitzes">John Skylitzes</a>: "...When Sviatoslav was making his way back home, as he passed through the land of the Patzinaks, he fell into ambushes already prepared to take him. He and the entire host that accompanied him were completely annihilated, so angry were the Patzinaks with him for having made a treaty with the Romans..." (Translated by John Wortley, in: <i>John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057: Translation and Notes</i>, p. 293)</dd></dl> <p>References: </p> <ul> <li> Ioannis Scylitzae Synopsis Historiarum. Editio Princeps. Rec. Ioannes Thurn, p. 310, in: <i><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Fontium_Historiae_Byzantinae" class="extiw" title="de:Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae">Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae</a> 5 Series Berolinensis</i>, 1973</li> <li> <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasiliki_Tsamakda" class="extiw" title="de:Vasiliki Tsamakda">Tsamakda V.</a>: <i>The illustrated chronicle of Ioannes Skylitzes in Madrid</i>, p. 211</li> </ul>
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