Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.

Battle of Levounion

1091 battle of the Komnenian Restoration

The Battle of Levounion was the first decisive Byzantine victory of the Komnenian restoration. On 29 April 1091, an invading force of Pechenegs was crushed by the combined forces of the Byzantine Empire under Alexios I Komnenos and his Cuman allies.

Pechenegs

Extinct Turkic people

The Pechenegs or Patzinaks also known as Pecheneg Turks were a semi-nomadic Turkic people from Central Asia who spoke the Pecheneg language. In the 9th and 10th centuries, the Pechenegs controlled much of the steppes of southeast Europe and the Crimean Peninsula. In the 9th…

List of Byzantine emperors

The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only the emperors who were recognized as legitimate rulers and exercised sovereign authority are included, to the exclusion of junior…

Alexios I Komnenos

Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118

Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus, was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118. After usurping the throne, he was faced with a collapsing empire and constant warfare throughout his reign, Alexios was able to curb the Byzantine decline and begin the military,…

April 29

Day of the year

April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 246 days remain until the end of the year.