Byzantine-Hungarian Alliance

Name: Byzantine-Hungarian Alliance
Start: 1158

Type Event Region Balkans Time 1158

In 1158 the Byzantine Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary shifted from prolonged warfare to a cooperative alliance.

Timeline

1156–1158Danube frontier · BalkansAfter Manuel defeated a Hungarian invasion in 1156, Géza II accepted a vassal status, and both sides halted large-scale military operations, creating conditions for subsequent cooperation.
1158Cilicia front · CiliciaWhen Manuel campaigned against Cilicia in 1158 to punish Cypriot raiders, Hungary supplied troops in fulfillment of its vassal obligations, showing that the two sides had shifted from hostility to a cooperative alliance.

Byzantine–Hungarian War (1149–1155) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Hungarian_War_(1149%E2%80%931155)
Exonerating Manuel I Komnenos: Byzantine Foreign Policy (1143-1180) — Matthew J. Lubin https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=etd
Géza II of Hungary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9za_II_of_Hungary