The revolt of Skopje's Bulgarians in 1072

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constan...28Peter_III%29

In 1072 the Bulgarian noblemen in Skopje raised a revolt against Byzantine rule under the leadership of George Voitekh (Georgi Vojteh), a descendant of the former Bulgarian court nobility. The rebels asked King Michael I of Zeta to provide one of his sons, as descendants of the House of the Kometopouloi, to assume the Bulgarian throne.

In the fall of 1072 Constantine Bodin, Michael's seventh son, arrived in Prizren with a small retinue of Zetan troops and met with George Voitekh and other representatives of the Bulgarian nobility. They escorted him to Skopje and crowned him emperor of the Bulgarians under the name Peter III, recalling the names of the sainted Emperor Peter I (Petăr I, who had died in 970) and of Peter II Delyan (Petăr II Deljan, who had led the first major revolt against Byzantine rule in 1040–1041).

The troops of the newly-crowned Peter III took Niš and Ohrid, but suffered a crippling defeat in front of Kastoria. The Byzantine counter-attack took Skopje with the help of George Voitekh, who betrayed first Peter III, and then attempted to betray the Byzantines, but in vain. In another battle Peter III was taken captive by the Byzantines and sent, together with George Voitekh, as prisoner to Constantinople. George Voitekh died en route, while the former Peter III languished in prison first at Constantinople and then at Antioch.