peristhlaba

Updated: July 10, 2026

The first exploit of Zimisces was the reduction of Marcianopolis, or Peristhlaba, in two days; the trumpets sounded; the walls were scaled; eight thousand five hundred Russians were put to the sword; and the sons of the Bulgarian king were rescued from an ignominious prison, and invested with a nominal diadem.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5