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==== Byzantine Empire ====
* At the invitation of [[Duchy of Benevento|Benevento]], the newly-restored [[Byzantine navy|Byzantine fleet]] appears in the waters off [[Otranto]]. On the orders of Emperor [[Basil I]], the Byzantines sail up the [[Adriatic Sea]] and reconquer part of southern [[Italy]]. The city of [[Bari]] is occupied in the name of the [[Byzantine Empire]]. Instead of holding it for his 'ally' [[Adelchis of Benevento]], Basil makes it the capital of the new Byzantine [[Longobardia|Theme of Longobardia]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kreutz |first1=Barbara M. |title=Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries |date=2011 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-0-8122-0543-5 |edition=Illustrated, reprint |pages=41–43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P-ucSSZrJ0YC}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Kazhdan|editor-first=Alexander|editor-link=Alexander Kazhdan|title=[[The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium]]|location=New York and Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1991|isbn=978-0-19-504652-6|pages=256, 1250}}</ref>