Yaroslav the Wise attacks Constantinople
1043
The Kievan grand prince launched a naval expedition against Constantinople in response to the killing of Rus merchants, the last of a half-dozen such Viking-era assaults. Greek fire burned the Rus fleet on the Bosphorus; survivors marched home through Bulgaria. It would be the final major Rus military campaign against Byzantium.
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