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Updated: May 3, 2025
At last she struck one of the brass pateras which hung at the corners of the red mattress, crying: "To the rescue! to the rescue! Back, sacrilegious man! infamous and accursed! Help, Taanach, Kroum, Ewa, Micipsa, Schaoul!" And the scared face of Spendius, appearing in the wall between the clay flagons, cried out these words: "Fly! they are hastening hither!"
King Kroum next ascended the throne of Bulgaria and, capable and savage warrior as he was, raised its power vastly. He defeated and slew the Greek Emperor, Nicephorus, in battle, and captured Sofia , the present capital of Bulgaria. Warfare was savage in those days, and between the Bulgars and the Greek emperors particularly savage.
The defeated Imperial army was massacred to a man, from the Emperor down to the foot-soldier. King Kroum afterwards used the skull of the descendant of the Caesars as a drinking-cup. A siege of Constantinople followed the defeat and death of the Emperor Nicephorus.
Bulgaria attained her greatest empire in the reign of King Kroum. Between King Isperich and King Kroum, however, Bulgaria had many ups and downs. The Bulgarian King, Kormisos, once almost reached the walls of Constantinople. But trouble among his own people prevented his victories being pushed home.
The invaders finally retired with a great booty, and the death of King Kroum soon after relieved the anxiety of Constantinople. These arose mostly out of religious issues. Many of the Slavs had become Christians, and some of the Bulgars also adopted the new faith.
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