Byzantine campaign against Serbia (1156)

Name: Byzantine campaign against Serbia (1156)
Start: 1156

Type Event Region Balkans Time 1156

In 1156 Byzantine emperor Manuel I again campaigned in the Balkans, crushing a joint Serbian-Hungarian challenge and intervening in the Raška success…

Timeline

1155–1156Middle Danube · BalkansHungarian king Géza II allied with Serbia to challenge Byzantium, launching a major Danube invasion in 1155; Manuel led his army to rout the invasion and pursued the victors.
1156Niš · SerbiaManuel convened Serbian župans at Niš and elsewhere to arbitrate the succession dispute, backed pro-Byzantine rulers and forced Géza II to accept vassal status, bringing northern Balkan affairs temporarily under imperial control.

Sources

Serbian revolt (1149–1150) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_revolt_(1149%E2%80%931150)
Exonerating Manuel I Komnenos: Byzantine Foreign Policy (1143-1180) — Matthew J. Lubin https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=etd