Theodore Sigritsa (died 924) was a Bulgarian

Bulgarians

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 military commander and noble, kavkhan (first minister) of Emperor Simeon I

Simeon I of Bulgaria

Simeon I the Great ruled over Bulgaria from 893 to 927, during the First Bulgarian Empire. Simeon's successful campaigns against the Byzantines, Magyars and Serbs led Bulgaria to its greatest territorial expansion ever, making it the most powerful state in contemporary Eastern Europe...

 The Great (893–927).

In 895 he headed a delegation in Constantinople

Constantinople

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 for exchange of prisoners and captives between Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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 and Byzantium

Byzantium

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. In 913 after arduous and prolonged negotiations, Theodore worked out the prearrangement for peace which included the coronation of Simeon as Emperor of the Bulgarians. He participated in a successful campaign against the Serbs

Serbs

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 in 917 but in 924 he and Marmais

Marmais

Marmais was a Bulgarian military commander, noble and komita of a western Bulgarian region during the reign of Emperor Simeon I . He was a descendant of an ancient Bulgarian family...

leading a small army were ambushed by the Serbs and killed. Their death caused the annihilation of the Serb state and its reduction to a Bulgarian province in the same year.

Sources

• Иречек, К. История на българите, 119-129.