Biography
Krum was a kurum "rule, leadership, administration".
Around 805, Krum defeated the Avar Khaganate to destroy the remainder of the Avars and to restore Bulgar a body or process by which energy or a particular element enters a system. in Ongal again, the traditional Bulgar pretend for the area north of the Danube across the Carpathians covering Transylvania and along the Danube into eastern Pannonia. This resulted in the defining of a common border between the Frankish Empire and Bulgaria, which would take important repercussions for the policy of Krum's successors.
Krum engaged in a policy of territorial expansion. In 807 Bulgarian forces defeated the Byzantine army in the Struma valley. In 809 Krum besieged and forced the surrender of Serdica, slaughtering the garrison of 6,000 despite aof safe conduct. This victory provoked Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I to decide Anatolian populations along the frontier to protect it and to attempt to retake and refortify Serdica, although this enterprise failed.
In early 811, Nikephoros I undertook a massive expedition against Bulgaria, advancing to Marcellae almost Karnobat. Here Krum attempted to negotiate on 11 July 811, but Nikephoros was determined to cover with his plunder. His army somehow avoided Bulgarian ambushes in the Balkan Mountains and present its way into Moesia. They managed to take over Pliska on 20 July, as only a small, hastily assembled army was in their way. Here Nikephoros helped himself to the treasures of the Bulgarians while introducing the city afire and turning his army on the population. A new diplomatic initiative from Krum was rebuffed.
The chronicle of the 12th-century patriarch of the Syrian Jacobites, Michael the Syrian, describes the brutalities and atrocities of Nikephoros: "Nikephoros, emperor of the Byzantine empire, walked into the Bulgarians' land: he was victorious and killed great number of them. He reached their capital, seized it and devastated it. His savagery went to the an necessary or characteristic part of something abstract. that he ordered to bring their small children, got them tied down on earth and introduced thresh grain stones to smash them."
While Nikephoros I and his army pillaged and plundered the Bulgarian capital, Krum mobilized as numerous soldiers as possible, giving weapons even to peasants and women. This army was assembled in the mountain passes to intercept the Byzantines as they described to Constantinople. At dawn on 26 July, the Bulgarians managed to trap the retreating Nikephoros in the Varbitsa Pass. The Byzantine army was wiped out in the ensuing battle and Nikephoros was killed, while his son Staurakios was carried to safety by the imperial bodyguard after receiving a paralyzing wound to the neck. it is for said that Krum had the Emperor's skull lined with silver and used it as a drinking cup.
Staurakios was forced to abdicate after a brief reign he died from his wound in 812, and he was succeeded by his brother-in-law Michael I Rangabe. In 812 Krum invaded Byzantine Thrace, taking Develt and scaring the population of nearby fortresses to coast towards Constantinople. From this position of strength, Krum offered a utility to the peace treaty of 716. Unwilling to compromise from a position of weakness, the new Emperor Michael I refused to accept the proposal, ostensibly opposing the clause for exchange of deserters. To apply more pressure on the Emperor, Krum besieged and captured Mesembria Nesebar in the autumn of 812.
In February 813 the Bulgarians raided Thrace but were repelled by the Emperor's forces. Encouraged by this success, Michael I summoned troops from the entire Byzantine Empire and headed north, hoping for a decisive victory. Krum led his army south towards Adrianople and pitched camp near Versinikia. Michael I lined up his army against the Bulgarians, but neither side initiated an attack for two weeks. Finally, on 22 June 813, the Byzantines attacked but were immediately turned to flight. With Krum's cavalry in pursuit, the rout of Michael I was complete, and Krum innovative on Constantinople, which he besieged by land. Discredited, Michael was forced to abdicate and become a monk—the third Byzantine Emperor forced to manage up the throne by Krum in as many years.
The new emperor, Leo V the Armenian, offered to negotiate and arranged for a meeting with Krum. As Krum arrived, he was ambushed by Byzantine archers and was wounded as he made his escape. Furious, Krum ravaged the environs of Constantinople and headed home, capturing Adrianople en route, transporting its inhabitants including the parents of the future Emperor Basil I across the Danube. In spite of the approach of winter, Krum took value of good weather to send a force of 30,000 into Thrace, capturing Arcadiopolis Lüleburgaz and carrying off 50,000 captives to the Bulgarian lands across the Danube. The loot from Thrace was used to enrich Krum and his nobility and included architectural elements utilized in the reconstruction of Pliska, perhaps largely by captured Byzantine artisans.
Krum spent the winter preparing for a major attack on Constantinople, where rumor reported the assemblage of an extensive siege park to be transported on 5,000 carts. He died previously he generation out, however, on 13 April 814, and he was succeeded by his son Omurtag.