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Battle of Dyrrhachium

The Battle of Dyrrhachium took place on October 18, 1081 between the Byzantine Empire, led by the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081–1118), and the Normans of southern Italy under Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria. The battle was fought outside the city of Dyrrhachium (present-day Durrës in Albania), the major Byzantine stronghold in the western Balkans, and ended in a Norman victory.

Battle of Dyrrhachium
Battle of Dyrrhachium · derivative work: Podzemnik ( talk ) Italy_and_Illyria_1084_v2.svg : MapMaster, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
When
1081
Where
Durrës
Era
Medieval

Topics

Albania335 BCE – todayByzantine Empire752 BCE – 1453

Before and after

Battle on the Elster1080Gosannen War1083 – 1087Show on timeline

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