Vojvoda Petrilo () was an 11th-century

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'' (''military commander'') of the

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Constantine Bodin Constantine Bodin ( Bulgarian and , ''Konstantin Bodin''; 1072–1101) was a medieval king and the ruler of Duklja, the most powerful Serbian principality of the time, from 1081 to 1101, succeeding his father, Mihailo Vojislavljević ( 10 ...

. Bodin was crowned as ''Emperor of Bulgaria'' in 1072 and was set to conquer the Byzantine territories of Bulgarian interest together with

Georgi Voyteh Georgi Voyteh (, Greek: Γεώργιος Βοιτέχ) was an 11th-century Bulgarian aristocrat from Skopje who started a major uprising in Byzantine Bulgaria against the Byzantine rule.Dennis P. Hupchick, The Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for Earl ...

(in the so-called ''

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'' or ''Slav Uprising in Pomoravlje'' in

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). Petrilo led a 300-strong army towards the south, into

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, and took

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where the townspeople greeted him as their liberator and Devol (

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) which surrendered. He was stopped by Byzantine troops and locals at

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led by a Byzantine general (of Bulgarian origin) that defeated him, making Petrilo return to

Duklja Duklja ( sr-Cyrl, Дукља; ; ) was a medieval South Slavs, South Slavic state which roughly encompassed the territories of modern-day southeastern Montenegro, from the Bay of Kotor in the west to the Bojana river in the east, and to the sou ...

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