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Articles

• Grigoriou-Ioannidou, Martha

This paper looks at the collaboration of Bulgars and Slavs in the attemptmade by Emperor Artemios-Anastasios II, exiled in Thessalonike, to regainthe throne in 719. It shows that the theories of historians who argue that the“Bulgarians of Thessalonike” and the Slavs with their monoxyla collaboratedin Artemios’s venture do not hold water, because there is no evidence of thepresence of (Proto)Bulgarians in central Macedonia in this period, and thereference to monoxyla in Patriarch Nikephoros’s account does not necessarilymean that Slavs were also involved, because Nikephoros does not mentionSlavs and monoxyla together. If monoxyla were used in Artemios’s attempt,they could have been used only by the (Danubian) Bulgars of Moisia, whowould have come to his aid in them along the Rivers Tudja, Hebros, and thelatter’s tributary, the Ergines, as far as Tzouroulon, whence they would havetravelled the short distance to Herakleia (in Thrace) to meet Artemios on hisway from Thessalonike.

• History and Archaeology

• Ιστορία

This paper was read at an international conference organised by the Institute forBalkan Studies and the British Council in Thessaloniki (8-9 December 1995) on the subjectof “Byzantine Thessaloniki from the 4th to the 15th Century”.