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Not who you're looking for? Others named Battle of Adrianople: 378 battle between Roman Empire and Goths · 1829 in which the Russians seized the city from the Ottoman · part of the Fourth Crusade, in which the Bulgarians defeated · 1912 Decisive battle during the First Balkan War
The Battle of Adrianople was fought in 1254 between the Byzantine Greek Empire of Nicaea and the Bulgarians. Michael Asen I of Bulgaria tried to reconquer land taken by the Empire of Nicaea, but the swift advance of Theodore II Lascaris caught the Bulgarians unprepared. The Byzantines were victorious.
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