Certainty: 2 Fifteen thousand Pechenegs equipped & sent to face Tughrul Beg's attack in the east
Tughrul Beg, when the tribute demanded by his ambassador was refused, threatened to attack. As a short-term response, Konstantinos chose 15,000 Pechenegs and gave them four leaders from among the Pechenegs of Constantinople: Soultzous, Selte, Karamas and Kataleimon. He gave them gifts, chariots and horses, and Konstantinos Hadrobalanos as a guide on the route to Iberia
Certainty: 2 Pecheneg troops soon rebelled, voted not to go east, & settled by the Danube Certainty: 2
Certainty: 2 Tyrach & baptised Pecheneg leaders, sent from Constantinople to pacify the others, joined their raids Certainty: 2
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Certainty: 2 Psellos wrote to Isaakios I as he set out against the Pechenegs, warning him of Selte Certainty: 2
Certainty: 2 Campaign of Isaakios I against Pechenegs: all leaders but Selte submitted, & Selte was crushed Certainty: 2