[There are some signs that later historians tried to suppress the details of the brutal battle against the Pechenegs and the massacre which followed.] The Pechenegs were unable to resist the army of Alexios I and appealed for mercy. Many perished and the rest were captured and enslaved, like those he settled in the theme of Moglena with their wives and children and constituted them as a special regiment. They remained there to the time of Zonaras, and were called the Moglenite Pechenegs