Battle of Southern Buh

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, 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.

Battle of Southern Buh
Part of Bulgarian–Hungarian wars
Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 894–896
Date896
Location
Southern Buh river, Ukraine
Result

Bulgarian victory

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
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