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==== Byzantine Empire ====
* Spring &ndash; An army of 15,000 [[Bulgars|Bulgar]] and [[Slavs|Slav]] horsemen under [[Justinian II]] appear before the walls of [[Constantinople]].<ref>Ostrogorsky, pp. 124–126</ref> After three days, his troops discover an unused [[Aqueduct (water supply)|water conduit]] under the walls of the city, and enter through the [[Valens Aqueduct]]. Hearing that Justinian has taken control of the [[Palace of Blachernae|Blachernae Palace]], Emperor [[Tiberios III]] flees to [[Bithynia]] (modern [[Turkey]]), where he evades capture for several months.<ref>Norwich, p. 337</ref>
* Justinian II ascends to the [[throne]] again and rewards his ally [[Tervel of Bulgaria|Tervel]], ruler (''[[khagan]]'') of the [[First Bulgarian Empire|Bulgarian Empire]], for his assistance with the title of kaisar (''[[Caesar (title)|Caesar]]''), which makes him second only to Justinian and the first foreign ruler in [[History of the Byzantine Empire|Byzantine history]] to receive such a title, and a territorial concession in northeastern [[Thrace]], a region called [[Zagore (region)|Zagora]] in modern-day [[Bulgaria]].<ref name="Byz705"/><ref>{{A History of the Byzantine State and Society | page=340}}</ref>