Stock Photo - The Battle of Pliska or Battle of Varbitsa Pass, 811, between the Bulgarian and Byzantine Empires. The Bulgarians used the tactics of ambush and surprise night attacks to effectively trap and immobilize the Byzantine forces in the Varbitsa Pass in the Balkan mountains, thus annihilating almost the whole army, including the Emperor Nicephorus. After the painting by J. H. Valda, d. 1941. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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