People / group
Pechenegs
Turkic semi-nomads who in the late 9th century drove the Magyars west and held the steppes between the Don and the Danube, including the Dnieper rapids; enemies and occasional allies of Rus’ and Byzantium.
- Events
- 7 events
- Regions
- Western and Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Balkans and Anatolia
- In the threads
- Early medieval Europe (500–1000), Eastern Europe and Rus’ before the Baptism (1st–10th c.)
Events
- Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basinbetween 894 and 895 – 907 · Western and Central Europe
- The Pechenegs first come to the Rus’ land915 · Eastern Europe
- Igor’s campaigns against Byzantium11 June 941 – 944 · Balkans and Anatolia
- Constantine VII describes the Rus’ route to Constantinoplebetween 948 and 952 · Eastern Europe
- Pecheneg siege of Kyiv968 · Eastern Europe
- Sviatoslav’s invasion of Bulgariabetween 967 and 968 – July 971 · Balkans and Anatolia
- Death of Sviatoslav at the Dnieper rapids972 · Eastern Europe
Often together with
Kievan Rus’Sviatoslav IByzantine EmpireFirst Bulgarian EmpireIgor of KievMagyars (Hungarians)ÁrpádEast FranciaEast SlavsGreat MoraviaOlga of Kiev