Alexios Mosele ( el, ), or Musele/Mousele (Greek: Μουσηλέ), was a
Byzantine
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...
admiral (''
droungarios tou ploimou
The ''droungarios'' of the Fleet ( el, δρουγγάριος τοῦ πλοΐμου/τῶν πλοΐμων, ''droungarios tou ploïmou/tōn ploïmōn''; after the 11th century δρουγγάριος τοῦ στόλου, ''droungarios tou stol ...
'') in the early reign of Emperor
Romanos I Lekapenos
Romanos I Lekapenos ( el, Ρωμανός Λεκαπηνός; 870 – 15 June 948), Latinisation of names, Latinized as Romanus I Lecapenus, was Byzantine emperor from 920 until his deposition in 944, serving as regent for the infant Constantine ...
(r. 920–944).
[.] He was killed in 921, leading a detachment of imperial marines along with the imperial ''
tagmata'' under the ''
domestikos ton scholon
The office of the Domestic of the Schools ( gr, δομέστικος τῶν σχολῶν, domestikos tōn scholōn) was a senior military post of the Byzantine Empire, extant from the 8th century until at least the early 14th century. Originally ...
'',
Pothos Argyros, against the forces of the
Bulgarian
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* Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria
* Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group
* Bulgarian language, a Slavic language
* Bulgarian alphabet
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* Bul ...
tsar,
Simeon I (r. 893–927) during the
Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927
The ByzantineBulgarian war of 913927 ( bg, Българо–византийска война от 913–927) was fought between the Bulgarian Empire and the Byzantine Empire for more than a decade. Although the war was provoked by the Byzantin ...
. The Byzantines were defeated at the
Battle of Pegae
The Battle of Pegae ( bg, битка при Пиги) was fought between 11 and 18 March 921 in the outskirts of Constantinople between the forces of the Bulgarian Empire and the Byzantine Empire during the Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–92 ...
, and during the subsequent flight, Mosele slipped and drowned while trying to board one of his warships.
[.]
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10th-century Byzantine military personnel
Byzantine admirals
Byzantine people of the Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars
9th-century births
Year of birth unknown
921 deaths
Deaths by drowning
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