<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pliska" id="mwGA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Pliska">Battle of Pliska</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" id="mwGQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Emperor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikephoros_I" id="mwGg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nikephoros I">Nikephoros I</a> is killed and his heir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staurakios" id="mwGw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Staurakios">Staurakios</a> is seriously wounded.<sup about="#mwt12" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_26#cite_note-1" id="mwHA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwHQ">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1">George Ostrogorsky, <i id="mwBvM">History of the Byzantine State</i> (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1957), p.<span id="mwBvQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>174</span>