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Battle_of_ Dyrrhachium_(1081)'
- Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
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19.5 The Battle of
Dyrrhachium (near present-day
Durrës in Albania) took
place on 18 October 1081,
between the Byzantine Empire,
led by the Emperor Alexius I
Comnenus,
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'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Battle_of_ Dyrrhachium_(1081)'
- Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
From Wik ipedia, the free
encyclopediaCoordinates: 41.3,
19.5 The Battle of
Dyrrhachium (near present-day
Durrës in Albania) took
place on 18 October 1081,
between the Byzantine Empire,
led by the Emperor Alexius I
Comnenus, and the Normans of
Southern Italy under Robert
Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and
Calabria. The battle was
fought outside the city of
Dyrrhachium (also known as
Durazzo), the Byzantine
capital of Illyria, and ended
in a Norman victory.
Following the Norman conquest
of Byzantine Italy and
Saracen Sicily, the Byzantine
Emperor, Michael VII,
betrothed his son to Robert
Guiscard's daughter. When
Michael was deposed, Robert
took this as an excuse to
invade the Byzantine Empire
in 1081. His army laid siege
to Dyrrhachium, but his fleet
was defeated

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