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| Keywords: MadridSkylitzesFol173ra.jpg 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 Romans 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 ru Печенеги убивают Святослава Иго евича en Madrid Skylitzes from the Middle Ages unknown 11th-13th centuries <gallery> File MadridSkylitzesFol173r jpg </gallery> PD-old-100 Sviatoslav I of Kiev in medieval miniatures Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria Pechenegs Madrid Skylitzes | ||||
