Battle of Southern Buh

Battle of Southern Buh
	Part of Bulgarian–Hungarian wars; Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 894–896
Date	896
Location	Southern Buh river, Ukraine
Result	Bulgarian victory Destructive defeat for the Hungarian army, forced to settle; Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin;
Belligerents
Bulgarian Empire Pecenegs	the Magyars
Commanders and leaders
Boris I, Simeon I	Unknown
Strength
Very large army	Unknown
Casualties and losses
20,000	Heavy

The Battle of Southern Buh occurred near the banks of the eponymous river (today in Ukraine). The result was a great Bulgarian victory which forced the Magyars of the Etelköz realm to abandon the steppes of southern Ukraine,^[1]^[2] as well as their aspirations of subduing Danube Bulgaria, retreating to the newly occupied lands beyond the Carpathian Mountains, centering on Pannonia, from where they will stage their next war, against Moravians this time, defeating them and establishing a new Hungary, after the Etelköz state in modern Ukraine, which succeeded an earlier stage of statehood for the Magyars, the legendary although short-lived Levedia, and even one before that, in the actual country of origin for the Magyars, Yugra, beyond river Ob.

The Byzantine Empire and Bulgaria following the death of Basil I the Macedonian, circa AD 890.

^ Zlatarski, V. Istorija na parvoto balgarsko carstvo, pp. 311-312, .
^ Constantin Porphyrogen, ibid., p. 173 (2–10), Symeon Logothet, ibid., p. 773 (19–22), Leo Grammaticus, p. 268 (19–22), Theophanes Continuatus, p. 359 (10–22), Skylica—Cedrin, II, p. 256 (8–11), Zonaras, IV, p. 411–3, Dummler, III, pp. 444—445.

[1] Zlatarski, V. Istorija na parvoto balgarsko carstvo, pp. 311-312, .

[2] Constantin Porphyrogen, ibid., p. 173 (2–10), Symeon Logothet, ibid., p. 773 (19–22), Leo Grammaticus, p. 268 (19–22), Theophanes Continuatus, p. 359 (10–22), Skylica—Cedrin, II, p. 256 (8–11), Zonaras, IV, p. 411–3, Dummler, III, pp. 444—445.

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