. English: Skyllitzes Matritensis, fol. 173r, detail Miniature: The pechenegs slaughter the 'skyths' of Sviatoslav I of Kiev Text from the Chronicle of John Skylitzes: '...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 ' (Translated by John Wortley, in: John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057: Translation and Notes, p. 293) Ref


. English: Skyllitzes Matritensis, fol. 173r, detail Miniature: The pechenegs slaughter the 'skyths' of Sviatoslav I of Kiev Text from the Chronicle of John Skylitzes: '...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 ' (Translated by John Wortley, in: John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057: Translation and Notes, p. 293) References: Ioannis Scylitzae Synopsis Historiarum. Editio Princeps. Rec. Ioannes Thurn, p. 310, in: Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae 5 Series Berolinensis, 1973 Tsamakda V.: The illustrated chronicle of Ioannes Skylitzes in Madrid, p. 211 Русский: Печенеги убивают Святослава Игоревича . 11th-13th centuries. from the Middle Ages, unknown 841 MadridSkylitzesFol173ra


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