page_title: 1185
section_title: Eastern Europe
hierarchical_section_title: 1185 / Events / By area / Europe / Eastern Europe
context_page_description: Year 1185 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: August 15 – The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated. by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
  August 24 – the Byzantine city of Thessalonica is sacked, by the Norman Sicilian troops.
  September 11–12 – Isaac II Angelos leads a revolt in the Byzantine Empire, which deposes Andronikos I Komnenos and ends the Komnenos Dynasty.
  November 7 – Battle of Demetritzes: Byzantine general Alexios Branas decisively defeats the Normans, ending their invasion of the Byzantine Empire.
  Peter and John Asen lead a revolt of the Vlachs and Bulgars against the Byzantine Empire, eventually establishing the Second Bulgarian Empire.
  Igor Svyatoslavich's failed campaign against the Cumans, later immortalized in The Tale of Igor's Campaign, takes place this year.
caption: After Igor's battle with the Cumans
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