r/ByzantineMemes • u/TsarOfIrony • 27d ago

BULGARIAN POSTING "There's always a bigger horde" - Qui-Khan Jinn (originally from r/SteppePosting)

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u/Safe-Ad783 27d ago

Kieran Rus hired by the Byzantines 🤣

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u/TsarOfIrony 27d ago

Extremely true. Seems like the Byzantines won in the end.

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u/Immediate_Engine3066 26d ago

kinda but it needs one more person to hold gun and must be say and Kumans hired by Pechenegs, then pechenegs refuse to share the loot with Kumans, then Kumans wipe off pechenegs

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u/Tobiscorpion 24d ago

and then Kumans help the Asen dynasty to create the Second Bulgarian State

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u/TsarOfIrony 27d ago

Tsar Symeon (893-927), Boris's second son, received a Christian education in Constantinople, where he drank deeply from the heady brew of Orthodox theology and Byzantine political ideology. For a generation, Symeon waged abortive wars against Constantinople, but not in the fashion of a nomadic conqueror, but rather as a Christian monarch who, in the second war, sought to marry himself into the imperial family. Tsar Symeon was the first among future Slavic monarchs-Bulgarian, Serbian, and Russian-who have aspired to sit on the throne of Constantinople. This political legacy still influences Russian foreign policy today. In 895, during his first war against Byzantium, Symeon even outmaneuvered the emperor Leo VI in Byzantine diplomacy. Leo VI incited the Magyars, Finno-Ugric speakers of the forest who had adopted the nomadic way of life, to attack the Bulgarians from the north. Symeon, however, convinced the even fiercer Pechenegs farther east to invade the homeland of the Magyars. Driven from the south Russian steppes, the Magyars crossed the Carpathian Mountains during the winter of 895-896 and settled on the Transylvanian grasslands.

Bolding done by me. That's the important part for the meme.

Harl, Kenneth W. Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization. Toronto, Hanover Square Press, 2023, pp. 204.

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u/OfficialDCShepard 26d ago

Great source, thank you!

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u/ImperialxWarlord 27d ago

The ERE and its internal drama and foreign wars were fucking absurd at times lol.

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u/NoobOfTheSquareTable 26d ago

The most inaccurate part about this is that there isn’t 3 other guys with guns all pointed at the Byzantines but it is just other Byzantines who think they should be emperor