Manuscript miniature

Nikephoros

c. 758–828

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Cut-out detail; background removed. Gold coin. Constans II is on the left, the smaller Constantine IV on the right. It predates the campaign; no link to the treaty payment is established. — Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Theophanes and Nikephoros tell Asparuh’s story from Byzantium, the Eastern Roman Empire.

Scene 1 · Asparuh and 681

Theophanes gives three or four waiting days; Nikephoros four.

Scene 4 · Asparuh and 681

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Not a portrait · Unknown scribe; texts by Synkellos and Theophanes; digitisation: National Library of France · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Constantine of Apamea
Not a portrait · Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. (www.cngcoins.com) · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
Nicholas Mystikos
Manuscript miniature · Unknown medieval illuminator; Madrid Skylitzes · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Photius
Photomechanical print · J. William Gnecchi (copyright credit on the 1910 print); original drawing artist unidentified · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Nicholas I
Engraving · Bartolomeo Sacchi (text); illustrator unknown · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Formosus of Porto
Not a portrait · Klearchos Kapoutsis from Paleo Faliro, Athens, Greece · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Paul of Populonia

First Tsardom

Asparuh and 681

Sources

Cleveland Museum of Art Solidus with Busts of Constans II and Constantine IV (obverse) Collection 2012.22.a
Cleveland Museum of Art Solidus of Constans II and Constantine IV with a Cross Potent on Three Steps (reverse) Collection 2012.22.b
Wikimedia geographical database contributors Constantinople: geographical record Wikimedia geographical database

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Wikimedia geographical database contributors Danube Delta Wikidata
Wikimedia geographical database contributors Pliska palace centre: geographical record Wikimedia geographical database
Third Council of Constantinople; ed. Giovanni Domenico Mansi; Bulgarian translation Ivan Dujčev Actio XVI: statement of Constantine, presbyter of Apamea PDF Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima Collectio. Florence; Гръцки извори за българската история III. Sofia, 1960 · 1765 · XI · Mansi col. 617; GIBI III, 169–170
Павел Георгиев / Pavel Georgiev Могилният комплекс при Кабаюк и началото на Плиска / Barrow Assemblage at Kabayuk and the Foundation of Pliska Приноси към българската археология / Contributions to Bulgarian Archaeology, NAIM–BAS · 2018 · 8 · 33–46
Alexandru Madgearu Recent Discussions about “Onglos” PDF Istro-Pontica. Tulcea · 2000 · 343–348
Theophanes the Confessor; ed. Carl de Boor; tr. Cyril Mango and Roger Scott, with Geoffrey Greatrex Chronographia, AM 6171 PDF The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor. Oxford: Clarendon Press · 1997 · I · de Boor 356.18–359.25; Mango–Scott 497–499
Jesse W. Torgerson and Mike Humphreys Chronicles, Histories, and Letters PDF A Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm, ed. Mike Humphreys (Leiden: Brill) · 2021 · 191–229
Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire, King’s College London Nikephoros 2 Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire I

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Unknown Byzantine illuminator · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Manuscript miniature · 9th century · detail

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Unknown Byzantine illuminator / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain. Manuscript miniature · 9th century · detail

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