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Philippopolis is described by Fine as being a Byzantine city at the time it was sacked. It also appears in Constantine VII's De Ceremoniis as being in the eparchia of Thrake " In Eparchia Thraciae habet metropolis Philippopolis "- and therefore Byzantine in the mid 10th century. Plus it makes more military sense for the city to have been Byzantine at the time of its sacking by Sviatoslav. Virtually all of Bulgaria was under Sviatoslav's control and he had the Bulgarian Tsar held hostage, why in this situation would a Bulgarian provincial governor offer resistance to Sviatoslav? It makes no sense, however, if the city of Philippopolis was Byzantine at the time its resistance to Sviatoslav's forces makes perfect sense. Urselius (talk) 12:53, 2 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Haldon makes no reference to Philippopolis being Bulgarian when it was sacked, he merely states that it was a fortress in Thrace. The referencing should be amended. Urselius (talk) 12:55, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Many historians do not assign Philippopolis a definite national status at the time of its sack by Sviatoslav, including Florin Curta in Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages 500-1250. Equally, a number state that the city was Bulgarian. Additionally to Fine, a number of historians state that it was Byzantine, for example: Riasanovsky A History of Russia, Blondal The Varangians of Byzantium, Deriabin Watchdogs of Terror: Russian Bodyguards. As the relevant scholarship is seriously divided or non-commital on this subject a statement in Wikipedia in favour of one viewpoint is not tenable. I have, therefore, altered the text to be entirely neutral on this matter. Urselius (talk) 08:22, 28 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Florin Curta does say (p. 227), early in the reign of Tsar Peter of Bulgaria that: "... the Thracian towns that had been under Bulgarian occupation for several years were deserted and razed to the ground." Urselius (talk) 08:39, 28 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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