The Bulgarians were unable to stop Preventing_or_letting the annual Byzantine campaigns Military_operation which devastated Destroying the country .

The battle Military_operation of Rodosto ( ) took place Process_start in February 1206 in the town of Rodosto ( today Tekirdağ , Turkey ) between the Bulgarians led Bringing by Emperor Kaloyan and the Crusaders .

It resulted in Causation a Bulgarian victory Earnings_and_losses After the Bulgarians annihilated Destroying the Latin army in the battle Military_operation of Rusion on 31 January 1206 the remnants of the shattered Crusader forces headed Self_motion to the coastal town of Rodosto to seek Getting refuge Preserving .

However , the fear of the Bulgarians was so great that the Latins panicked with the very arrival Arriving of the Bulgarian soldiers .

The town was looted Robbery by the Bulgarians who continued Hold their victorious march Conquering through eastern Thrace and captured Conquering many more towns and fortresses .

The Uprising of Asen and Peter ( ) was a revolt of Bulgarians and Vlachs living in Moesia and the Balkan Mountains , then the theme of Paristrion of the Byzantine Empire , caused Causation by a tax increase .

The brothers Peter and Asen built Building the Church of St Demetrius of Thessaloniki in Tarnovo , dedicated Giving to Saint Demetrius , who was traditionally considered a patron of the Byzantine city of Thessaloniki , and claimed Statement that the Saint had ceased Process_end to favour the Byzantines : `` God had decided Deciding to free Releasing the Bulgarians and the Vlach people and to lift Process_end the yoke that they had borne Bringing for so long '' .

Thus , when the armies of Bulgarians and the Vlachs returned Arriving , reinforced Cause_change_of_strength with their Cuman allies , they found Know the region undefended and regained Getting not only their old territory but the whole of Moesia , a considerable step towards the establishment of a new Bulgarian state .

Cornered between the Bulgarians and the Pechanegs , the Magyars suffered Confronting_problem a crushing defeat at the hands of the Bulgarian army and had to migrate Escaping westwards , settling Response in Pannonia .

The battle Hostile_encounter itself is unclear but the Bulgarians were defeated Conquering mainly with the help Assistance of the Varangian Guard , led by Harald Hardrada .

The Axis order Request of battle Hostile_encounter against the Bulgarians and Yugoslavs in this operation Military_operation comprised Cause_to_be_included some 17,000 men including the Kampfgruppe `` Langer '' with three infantry companies , one artillery battery and one platoon of tanks , Kampfgruppe `` Bredow '' with six infantry battalions , three artillery battalions and 10 tanks ) , Kampfgruppe `` Skanderbeg '' with about 7,000 men of Waffen-SS August Schmidhuber 's 21st Mountain Division `` Skanderbeg '' and about 4,000 German navy personnel making their way to the north from Greece .