Krum's Advances — Territorial expansion of Bulgaria during the reign of Khan Krum (803-814)
During his reign the Bulgarian territory doubled in size, spreading from the middle Danube to the Dnieper and from Odrin to the Tatra Mountains. Photo Credit: By Kandi - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3211315
Krum's Advances
Territorial expansion of Bulgaria during the reign of Khan Krum (803-814)
During his reign the Bulgarian territory doubled in size, spreading from the middle Danube to the Dnieper and from Odrin to the Tatra Mountains.
Solidus of Leo V the Armenian — Photo Credit: By Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11751738
Gold solidus of Theophylactus. 811-813. — Solidus (Gold, 4.40 g 6). ΘEOFVLACTOS DESP’E Beardless bust of Theophylactus facing, wearing loros and crown with cross, and holding a globus cruciger in his right hand and a cross tipped scepter in Photo Credit: Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33286179
Gold solidus of Theophylactus. 811-813.
Solidus (Gold, 4.40 g 6). ΘEOFVLACTOS DESP’E Beardless bust of Theophylactus facing, wearing loros and crown with cross, and holding a globus cruciger in his right hand and a cross tipped scepter in
Coronation of the Emperor Michael I — By the Patriarch, as depicted in the Madrid Skylitzes Photo Credit: By Anonymous - The Madrid Skylitzes; Vasiliki Tsamakda, The Illustrated Chronicle of Ionnes Skylitzes in Madrid, (Leiden, 2002), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11200449
Staurakios as co-emperor on a gold solidus — Photo Credit: By Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27481143
Khan Krum feasts while a servant brings the skull of Nikephoros I fashioned into a drinking cup. — Photo Credit: Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2370571